What are you currently reading?

[Simple Torture]

I'm giving Swann's Way a go, finally.

Beautiful book. One of my all-time favorites. You have to really commit to "Swann in Love" to get the payoff but it's arguably better than "Combray."

I got all the way through Sodom and Gomorrah, which may have been my favorite in the series so far, but Swan's Way is a great encapsulation of Proust's style and project, and I would totally recommend you just stop there when you finish.

[BurtReynolds]

Got this book yesterday after about 3 months of waiting for it to ship. European shipping is a mess right now.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEtmoZkcHts

Not as interesting as The Electric State, but he's great with that tone.

I'd like to do an illustrated book like this one day.

[Mickey]

I'm giving Swann's Way a go, finally.

Beautiful book. One of my all-time favorites. You have to really commit to "Swann in Love" to get the payoff but it's arguably better than "Combray."

I got all the way through Sodom and Gomorrah, which may have been my favorite in the series so far, but Swan's Way is a great encapsulation of Proust's style and project, and I would totally recommend you just stop there when you finish.

Yeah I started In The Shadow of the Young Girls In Flower and it didn't have the same appeal, in part because Marcel was just so unbearably horny. But I also wondered about the translation because the writing style seemed to shift drastically. I know Lydia Davis did the first volume for Penguin and someone else did the second.

[Simple Torture]

I read the Penguin editions on my own, and then we used the Modern Library editions when I took a Proust class ~10 years ago, and the Penguins were much more readable iirc.

[epilogue]

I'm giving Swann's Way a go, finally.

Beautiful book. One of my all-time favorites. You have to really commit to "Swann in Love" to get the payoff but it's arguably better than "Combray."

I got all the way through Sodom and Gomorrah, which may have been my favorite in the series so far, but Swan's Way is a great encapsulation of Proust's style and project, and I would totally recommend you just stop there when you finish.

Yeah I started In The Shadow of the Young Girls In Flower and it didn't have the same appeal, in part because Marcel was just so unbearably horny. But I also wondered about the translation because the writing style seemed to shift drastically. I know Lydia Davis did the first volume for Penguin and someone else did the second.

I'm reading the Lydia Davis translation of Swann's Way.

I have no intention of going further right now. We'll see if that changes when I'm done.

[Simple Torture]

There was a 15-year break between the publication of S+G and the Prisoner in the Penguin series--from what I understand, they had to wait for the later volumes to enter the public domain. Take a look at what happened to the spines during that break; someone in the design department deserves to be beheaded.

[epilogue]

Great, now I'm despondent

[ghost]

Totally forgot that I pre-ordered this until it showed up yesterday. Now I just gotta get through the 3 other books ahead of it in line.

I could probably just plow through it this weekend but that's a lot of despair to take in all at once.

[Mickey]

Willy's so great.

[Anders]

Read this today.

[BurtReynolds]

Got a pleasant surprise in the mail today. Don't know what's up with the card... But I guess I have Gore Verbinski's autograph now.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Got a pleasant surprise in the mail today. Don't know what's up with the card... But I guess I have Gore Verbinski's autograph now.

was this mailed from henderson, nevada?

[ghost]

re-reading this for a shot of hope before I dive back down into the usual misery porn

[BurtReynolds]

I've been expanding my "Art of..." collection lately. Still need to pick up a few more.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Ello Sailor]

Would anyone care to rank Dumas' novels for me? I loved The Count of Monte Cristo and have been meaning to pick up another of his.

[ghost]

New George Saunders sounds amazing. Need to get my hands on it.

My brother got me a signed copy of that Lincoln book but I still haven't read it. Should I?

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[epilogue]

New George Saunders sounds amazing. Need to get my hands on it.

My brother got me a signed copy of that Lincoln book but I still haven't read it. Should I?

Yes!