Page: 473
Pages read since last post: 416
Days reading Proust: 106 (23,7,44,9,23)
Books read since last post: 2
F. Herbert, Heretics of Dune; Chapter House Dune
I have finished the Captive and have to confess to being a little underwhelmed. The only really excellent section was the thankfully long soiree at the Verdurins, which I liked very much, but broadly I think it fails as an anatomisation of jealousy etc etc. Alsso, it reqlly suffers from the obvious inconsistencies, mostly around deaths, some of which are then contrdicted in the same scene. There is quite a bit of that around Cottard and Saniete especially and it detracts. Nonetheless, much still of value and good fun, but beginning to fray around the edges.
Not as much as Dune though, which after a faint rally in book 5, is rubbish in 6, though both passed the time, and I am one Sextet down now. I'm taking a breather tonight to read Albert Memmi's account of colonial Tunisia as I also leave the country, then kicking onto Fug. I'm tempted to delay TR so that I can complete it in a Paris cafe on Saturday week.
Sometime, late of an evening in March 2007, a regrettable decision was taken. As a consequence of this decision three friends, Dr Andrew Murray, Mr William Garrood (Member of Surrey CCC) and Dr Alexis Haynes would competitively read Marcel Proust's masterpiece A La Recherche du Temps Perdu. The aforementioned Proustanauts were later joined in their endeavour by Mr Elliot Smith, who, aided in part by a bout of pneumonia, promptly overtook them all. The saga continues...
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Greetings oh travelling one. Don't despair Fug is tightly scripted and full of twists and turns... at least as much as Proust ever does twists and turns. The last 200 pages are superb.
TR is getting weird - the madeleines come back into it ~ page 220. Looking to finish in a week or so.
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