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Swann's Way
by Marcel Proust
Talk about "In Search of Lost Time!" I'm still searching for the HOURS of lost time I spent reading this drivel! I was tricked into reading this book by a friend of mine who wanted to read and discuss it. She never got around to reading it. I read the whole dreary thing. I know Proust is supposed to be the greatest writer of Western Lit EVER. I know it's a badge of honor in some circles to read Remembrance of Things Past and all other things Proustian. But I think Proust wrote all this crap so that someday, the literati would waste their time reading it, and then justifying the hours wasted by fawning over Proust. He goes on and on describing apple blossoms or chestnut trees or some such thing (I repressed the subject matter) for twenty gazillion pages. He is tortured and pained with conscience about minor choices he makes for another twenty gazillion pages. I just wanted to shriek--"get ON with it! Tell me a story!"