Remembrance of Things Past

[GeddyRulz]

Or "In Search of Lost Time."

 

Has anyone read it? We're talking 7 volumes, and - what? - about 3000 or 4000 pages, right? But it's supposedly one of the greatest literary achievements in the history of the world.

 

God help me, and please don't think I'm pretentious for thinking this, but I'm contemplating reading it. It'll probably take several months, maybe a year.

 

Has anyone read it? Comments?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_of_things_past

Edited December 7, 2008 by GeddyRulz

[GeddyRulz]

I'm going to do it. I just checked out of the library a single volume containing the first three novels - well over 1000 pages.

 

After this, there's a second volume containing the last four novels.

 

I must be psycho.

[Jen Sawyer]

QUOTE (GeddyRulz @ Dec 9 2008, 12:06 PM)

I'm going to do it. I just checked out of the library a single volume containing the first three novels - well over 1000 pages. After this, there's a second volume containing the last four novels. I must be psycho.

Go for it!

 

I read all the the D'Artagnan Romances straight through this year (The Three Musketeers/Twenty Years Later/Vicomte de Bragelonne/Louise de la Valliere/The Man in the Iron Mask). All in all, I think about a couple thousand pages. It's a challenge, but I think it's well worth it to read everything straight through.