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My plan is for Proust to be on-going in the background of my reading life during 2013. It should not affect Wine Club.
Also, there is a group reading Infinite Jest if anyone's interested in tackling Wallace.http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/7...
This one might interfere with Wine Club because I'm told it is of an all-consuming nature, but I think I can handle it. Or perhaps I've bit off a tad more than I can chew. I guess we'll see.
The reading schedule is December–February, but I might start in November so I'm not reading Wallace and Proust at the same time, which is something that sounds almost psychotic to me.
...and there is a group reading Moby-DIck in Oct/Nov, if anyone's interested: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/7...I will most likely open up noms for this group's October read soon. I was thinking perhaps a horror classic? I'll think up a few titles!
If anyone is up for reading Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, there is a group read of it here, which starts next week I think.http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1...
Hi guys. Just letting you know, I'm starting up a group read in the OUTER WORLD OF GR for Don Quixote starting in January. The schedule runs about 9 weeks. If anyone's interested, the group is here: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, it is this: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/r...
Don't believe the Guinness Book of World Records? FINE. Then believe Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_...
Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (also referred to as Remembrance of Things Past from the French À la recherche du temps perdu) is longer than the next-longest book by like, fucking TRIPLE.
Anyway, I will be reading this. And not because it is the longest book, but because it is Proust and his works are constantly being talked about on Goodreads and used as a mode of comparison to other modernist and post-modernist literature. I believe Virginia Woolf even cited him as her inspiration. If anyone is interested in reading this with me, it is going to be a full year-long group read and it is here:
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/7...
There is still plenty of time to get the volumes should you decide to join. The group is run by a really nice guy called Proustitute. Just tell him Jason sent you. There is info in there for which translations to get and there is a 52-week reading schedule, as well, so it is super spread out and doable.
If you are interested in reading Proust but not in 2013, you can always come back to that group later. Proustitute has actually made the group threads visible to non-members, so you'd be able to use the discussions as a resource later on (should you decide to read Proust in the future) without having to ask permission to join the group.