Because I can't even get through LotR, I think that is impossible. How can you start reading something and finish it? There are so many pages, how they don't die before they manage to end it?
Just take your time with it and eventually you will finish it. U can read books in between or take a brake after a finishing a volume then go for the next and so on
I feel you man. At the very least, you can commit to at least one page a day of the book you’re going through. Even if you’re incredibly busy or unmotivated you can commit to reading a single page of something. It’s slow, but you’ll get through.
It’s really the meandering and flowery way which Proust writes in that gets people. Each book when taken individually isn’t that long and the content itself isn’t too out there.
Same here. I'm the startest person I know and I haven't read a single line so far. Seems mad crazy that people slot through this.
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Most don’t even read that. Schools usually only do the “Swann in Love” segment because even that is a bit dense to get through.
The fact that BDSM material is in this book is a good way to test who got all the way through it and who just read the early parts because graphic content in a book of this nature sounds absurd to someone only familiar with the first novel.
Yeah, some years ago. If my memory is right, book 1 is great, book 2 and 3 are slogs, the rest are great but a little weird and it is tied together beautifully in the last book. It is a series that has grown in my esteem since reading it when I was just glad to be finally done it at the end as I was getting burnt out. Don’t think I have it in me to read again but I’ve been debating it
Oh, you wanna know if "In Search of Lost Time" is just a bunch of rich snobs doing their snobby things or if it's actually interesting? Well, that's a matter of personal interpretation and perspective, my friend.
Sure, the novel focuses on the experiences of wealthy French society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but it also delves deep into some heavy themes like memory, love, and the nature of art. And let me tell you, it's some gnarly writing that'll make your head spin with its beauty and complexity.
But hey, I get it, maybe the whole high society thing isn't your cup of tea. It's definitely a reflection of a particular cultural and historical context, and some folks might not vibe with it. At the end of the day, whether or not you find "In Search of Lost Time" interesting is all up to you, dude.
there's a lot of bourgeois shit, yeah. But I would say most of it is Proust writing like he's on acid all the time. Everything is a rich multilayered experience for this guy
bourgeois are more interesting in arts because they have everything but they realized from a very young age that it's all meaningless and so they lack a lot of their humanity, that they seek to regain past their 20s. The proletariat is always about some dragonball struggle for life shit same thing over and over again. Humanity is a very wide concept, hence you can explore many angles.
Both the bourgeois and the proletariat envy each other as if they had to sacrifice something to be either side, but it's more interesting to view this from the angle of a man feels shame for having an elevated position, yet part of his animal self is missing and he feels shame for jealousing the poor.
The writer, being good, has likely exorciced either his poorgay mindset, or his bourgeois shame, and has ascended to a fraction of the uberman, becomes an aristocrat, and learns to be both sincere and educated, he learns to live the moment. The other way, for example, is Camus, coming from a poorgay background, gets educated and learns to be humble towards art contrary to his poorgay peers, probably feels shame for his poorgay background, then, probably also because he's a looker and fricks a lot of girls, learns subsequently to not care and enjoy present time.
Here, we see, it's all about the bourgeois and the search of lost time.
But its about the less popular French bourgies. I hate that all our popular conceptions come from Victorian Britain. This is why In Search of Lost Time is actually interesting. Reading it you can LARP as being French in a lesser known French context.
Took me 3.5 years but was chill. Read other stuff in between obviously. I find it weird that people think it's that big of an achievement. I might as well return for a re-read now that I'm entering my 30s.
It's great and it's absolutely worth it but you got to keep each book in a timeline.
You can take a break from 3rd to 4rth for example but don't take a year to finish 5 (the hardest for me because it transferred to me extreme anxiety and jealousy)
Why do you find it hard to believe?
Because I can't even get through LotR, I think that is impossible. How can you start reading something and finish it? There are so many pages, how they don't die before they manage to end it?
A lot of people can't hit a 90 mile per hour fastball, yet professional baseball exists.
Those are all israeli lies to get money out of the goyim. People here know it better.
Just take your time with it and eventually you will finish it. U can read books in between or take a brake after a finishing a volume then go for the next and so on
Follow this schedule to a T and you can complete the entire series within 182 days, at only 20- 30 pages per day.
http://proustproject.blogspot.com/p/day-by-day-summary.html?m=1
I feel you man. At the very least, you can commit to at least one page a day of the book you’re going through. Even if you’re incredibly busy or unmotivated you can commit to reading a single page of something. It’s slow, but you’ll get through.
It would take a year roughly to read each book. There’s seven in this book cycle.
It’s really the meandering and flowery way which Proust writes in that gets people. Each book when taken individually isn’t that long and the content itself isn’t too out there.
It's just really big. I don't think I could handle it, and I'm a pretty smart guy.
Same here. I'm the startest person I know and I haven't read a single line so far. Seems mad crazy that people slot through this.
I love this board <3 thanks for making me smile guys
dang you guys are sooooooo smart wow
watch out guys the smartypantses have entered the discussion
prettysmarty mcsmartface and his older brother, smartyest mcsmartface
Yes, and they are still searching their lost time for reading it.
Most people i've seen only read swanns way
Most don’t even read that. Schools usually only do the “Swann in Love” segment because even that is a bit dense to get through.
The fact that BDSM material is in this book is a good way to test who got all the way through it and who just read the early parts because graphic content in a book of this nature sounds absurd to someone only familiar with the first novel.
I've read the whole thing, finished it about two months ago. I love it.
Yeah, some years ago. If my memory is right, book 1 is great, book 2 and 3 are slogs, the rest are great but a little weird and it is tied together beautifully in the last book. It is a series that has grown in my esteem since reading it when I was just glad to be finally done it at the end as I was getting burnt out. Don’t think I have it in me to read again but I’ve been debating it
No, I' m only into Andrew "literal criminal that got arrested" Tate stuff.
Is actually interesting or is it just the bourgeoisie doing bourgeoisie things?
I don't know, I've never read it.
Bourgeois things aren't less interesting than prole things
Oh, you wanna know if "In Search of Lost Time" is just a bunch of rich snobs doing their snobby things or if it's actually interesting? Well, that's a matter of personal interpretation and perspective, my friend.
Sure, the novel focuses on the experiences of wealthy French society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but it also delves deep into some heavy themes like memory, love, and the nature of art. And let me tell you, it's some gnarly writing that'll make your head spin with its beauty and complexity.
But hey, I get it, maybe the whole high society thing isn't your cup of tea. It's definitely a reflection of a particular cultural and historical context, and some folks might not vibe with it. At the end of the day, whether or not you find "In Search of Lost Time" interesting is all up to you, dude.
you sound like GPT
there's a lot of bourgeois shit, yeah. But I would say most of it is Proust writing like he's on acid all the time. Everything is a rich multilayered experience for this guy
>bourgeois bourgeoise bourgeoisie
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bourgeois are more interesting in arts because they have everything but they realized from a very young age that it's all meaningless and so they lack a lot of their humanity, that they seek to regain past their 20s. The proletariat is always about some dragonball struggle for life shit same thing over and over again. Humanity is a very wide concept, hence you can explore many angles.
Both the bourgeois and the proletariat envy each other as if they had to sacrifice something to be either side, but it's more interesting to view this from the angle of a man feels shame for having an elevated position, yet part of his animal self is missing and he feels shame for jealousing the poor.
The writer, being good, has likely exorciced either his poorgay mindset, or his bourgeois shame, and has ascended to a fraction of the uberman, becomes an aristocrat, and learns to be both sincere and educated, he learns to live the moment. The other way, for example, is Camus, coming from a poorgay background, gets educated and learns to be humble towards art contrary to his poorgay peers, probably feels shame for his poorgay background, then, probably also because he's a looker and fricks a lot of girls, learns subsequently to not care and enjoy present time.
Here, we see, it's all about the bourgeois and the search of lost time.
But its about the less popular French bourgies. I hate that all our popular conceptions come from Victorian Britain. This is why In Search of Lost Time is actually interesting. Reading it you can LARP as being French in a lesser known French context.
This moronic populism that bourgeois = boring makes no sense. All classes are interesting.
Harold Bloom swore he re-read this novel every year for more than four decades.
you only have to read swanns way and girls in flower the other parts are meh, time regained is better again but the first two books are the best imo
>Has anyone ever actually read this?
The actual title is "NICE BISCUIT!!"
Yes, and it only gets better with each time you read it.
Took me 3.5 years but was chill. Read other stuff in between obviously. I find it weird that people think it's that big of an achievement. I might as well return for a re-read now that I'm entering my 30s.
It's great and it's absolutely worth it but you got to keep each book in a timeline.
You can take a break from 3rd to 4rth for example but don't take a year to finish 5 (the hardest for me because it transferred to me extreme anxiety and jealousy)