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Club Read 2009 : Medellia's 2009 Reading #2		103	Medellia, Thursday 10:20am
1001 Books to read before you die : Reading "Remembrance of Things Past"		65	jburg, December 2009
250 book challenge : Dyrfinna's 2009 Reading		142	Dyrfinna, December 2009
999 Challenge : Hemlokgang's 999 in 2009 Challenge		25	hemlokgang, November 2009
1001 Books to read before you die : How many have you read?		265	ekebivibeke, November 2009
Club Read 2009 : Medellia's 2009 Reading		245	Medellia, October 2009
Literary Snobs : What Are You Reading , September 2009 ?		214	anna_in_pdx, October 2009
50 Book Challenge : kjellika's NEW challenge 010808		76	kjellika, July 2009
Proust : Reinvogorating This Group		15	jveezer, June 2009
Proust : Are you reading now? Where are you in 'ISOLT'?		20	zip_000, June 2009
50 Book Challenge : Medellia's 2009 Books		10	ChocolateMuse, March 2009
Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : Zero to 150 - 2008		119	zanix, December 2008
Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : First Line Game Chapter 8		353	Jodyreadseverything, September 2008
Dormant: New York Review Books : OT: À la recherche du temps perdu—preferred English translations		6	DieFledermaus, July 2008
Dormant: Hogwarts Express : New Derailments on my Train of Thought		733	jugglingpaynes, April 2008
Dormant: Book talk : In Remembrance Of Thing Past - Marcel Proust ( 7 Novels )		18	jveezer, December 2007
Dormant: Proust : Favorate excerpts from		15	jveezer, December 2007
Dormant: Proust : Playing with numbers		4	dperrings, July 2007
Dormant: Proust : joyeux anniversaire		17	dperrings, July 2007
Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 10 Feb 2007		134	dara85, February 2007

... This passage, which lasts a couple of pages or so, made me think of the famous "underwater metaphor" scene at the Opera in The Guermantes Way. --On one page Marius considers the deaths of his friends in the barricade insurrection, reflecting on the strangeness and unreality of the scene, and ...

... of the first volume. Grieve's was my least favorite translation of the seven volumes, but fear not--Mark Treharne's The Guermantes Way follows, and it is really wonderful. That's the problem with the Penguin translations, they're of inconsistent quality from volume to volume. Though I ...

... disagree that it was the hardest, in fact, I finished it much more quickly - and enjoyably - than The Prisoner or The Guermantes Way. I found The Guermantes Way to be the most difficult...or rather the most boring. The other books seemed filled with incredible writing and really ...

... of sweet, shy, thoroughly virtuous heroines that I love so, so much. As well, I'm back to Proust, hardcore. Finished The Guermantes Way and am deeply immersed in Sodom and Gomorrah. I don't feel right without my daily dose of Proust. My dear Marcel just has me pegged: for example, ...

77. The Polysyllabic Spree - Nick Hornby (230) 78. Pussey! - Daniel Clowes (64) 79. The Guermantes Way - Marcel Proust (640) 80. Housekeeping vs. the Dirt - Nick Hornby (200) 81. Watchmen - Alan Moore (416) 82. The Power of the Possible - Auriela McCarthy (240) 83. Tarka the Otter ...

Yesterday I finished volume 3 of my Norwegian edition of In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust: The Guermantes Way, and I'll soon start reading volume 4: 'Sodom and Gomorrah'. 'ISOLT' is quite a humorous, but challenging read, and I'm glad I'm reading it SLOWLY. Very little action, but much ...

Just finished The Guermantes Way. I think it is a quite humorous volume of 'ISOLT', but it was a little challenging to learn about all the characters. I think I'll remember the main characters for a long time, but not the rest of them. 'ISOLT' is too long to read several times in a lifetime (if ...

I've soon finished volume 3 of my Norwegian edition of ISOLT: The Guermantes Way, and I do like it so far. I'll read the rest of In Search of Lost Time (volume 4-7) during the next seven months (approx.) Marcel Proust is great.

... specifically that Lydia Davis's was great, and James Grieve's was stilted. Since I was so absorbed by the brilliance of The Guermantes Way, I don't think I noticed the translation, which I guess means it was good! I should also add that I tried reading Proust without success at least three ...

... Way is excellent, but James Grieve's In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is sometimes stilted and confusing. The Guermantes Way falls somewhere between this two, I think. I can imagine that the consistency of the translation would be a plus for the Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright (and ...

... for some serious reading (which I probably won't be until February or so). Still working on Proust, third volume, The Guermantes Way. I'll finish and move on one of these days. I'm enjoying it, I just don't have the energy for it most of the time.

... read it quite slowly (as I did) to be aware of all the persons and observe what happens. I've read approx. 60 pages of The Guermantes Way, and I plan to finish this volume (vol. 3) at the end of February 2009. Continuing my slow reading.................

... Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke - *** 2) The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy - ***** 3) The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust 4) The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes 5) Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Drea ...

The Final Solution by Michael Chabon 11/25/08 The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust 11/26/08

... ate. I am currently reading Proust, and I'm sure I'll still be at the beginning of '09. I'm stalled in the third volume (The Guermantes Way), but once the semester is over, I expect to be back on track. At the moment, I'm picking at little bits of Proust-related stuff: Proust Among the Stars ...

Just finished the first chapter of The Guermantes Way tonight. -- M1001

After pacing myself at about one volume ever 5 years, I just finished The Guermantes Way and had immediately to start Sodom and Gomorrah. After the others I needed a break. But these two books are separated by a more abrupt gap—and I was eager to keep going. Anyone else have that experience?

... (well, almost every) book, so I will try it again. I also tried it on audiobook and the same thing happened. I now own Guermantes Way so perhaps I will come across the first two volumes, add them to my library and take my time with them. I like to take my time, and intersperse with other ...

... Search of Lost Time you would recommend. I'm particularly curious about the new Mark Treharne translation of The Guermantes Way. I tend to be conservative about translations, biased towards the tried and true—esp. for ones as celebrated as the C.K. Scott Moncrieff ones. In the ...

That, I think, is Proust's The Guermantes Way? I watched Monty Python this morning on BBC America, and they had a skit "Summarize Proust in 15 seconds!" game show. The contestants couldn't get through Swann's Way in 15 seconds! It was hilarous!

That's okay. I tried to go right on to Guermantes Way after finishing Swann's Way but I needed a Proust-break. One tip don't start reading it at bed time since the first chapter is him talking about how that state between wakefulness and sleep. I had to read it when I was very alert so it ...

... vols 5 and 6 together. In this Vintage Classics edition, Swann's Way = 513 pages; Within a Budding Grove = 618 pages; The Guermantes Way = 691 pages; Sodom and Gomorrah = 615 pages; and The Captive; The Fugitive = 793 pages. So the first six volumes come to 3230 pages. I don't yet have ...

That's exactly how I felt. When you get to The Guermantes Way, you suddenly get a few dinner parties and salon conversations. They were very welcome by that stage!

... lots of different editions and compilations and so on, but still: Swann's Way - 1649 Within a Budding Grove - 698 The Guermantes Way - 391 Sodom and Gomorrah - 362 The Captive; The Fugitive - 177 The Past Recaptured - 255 It seems that lots of readers don't make it past Swan ...

From The Guermantes Way: At the same time, Albertine preserved, inseparably attached to her, all my impressions of a series of seascapes of which I was particularly fond. I felt that in kissing her cheeks I should be kissing the whole of Balbec beach.

From The Guermantes Way: It has been said that silence is strength; in a quite different sense it is a terrible strength in the hands of those who are loved. It increases the anxiety of the one who waits. Nothing so tempts us to approach another person as what is keeping us apart; and what ...

... this group and am coincidentally in the middle (almost) of In Search of Lost Time. Halfway through the third book, The Guermantes Way to be exact.

Hi DLSmithies, Diamonds are Forever works for me every time, and The Guermantes Way does as well, one of my favorites of in the In Search of Lost Time cycle.

... moving, very character driven, funny, thought-provoking: highly recommended! Once I polish this off, I'll be embarking on The Guermantes Way, volume 3 of In Search Of Lost Time by Marcel Proust.

... moving, very character driven, funny, thought-provoking: highly recommended! Once I polish this off, I'll be embarking on The Guermantes Way, volume 3 of In Search Of Lost Time by Marcel Proust.