prudence2001 t1_jea2pwv wrote on March 30, 2023 at 2:49 PM

Pace yourself. It took me 30 years to finally finish, but I loved most of it. Though some of volumes 5 and 6 were a bit of a slog. Too much obsessing over Albertine.

selfcarebouquet t1_jebqc10 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 9:14 PM

I read it over a period of 4 months before my first trip to Paris 30 years ago. I had a temp job where I was the onsite temp agency rep/coordinator at a hospital so I literally had no work unless a dept called requesting a temp. Memory is sketchy but I do recall thinking that the quality of the writing and the storytelling declined quite a bit in the last couple of volumes. I suppose I could Google it but IIRC, some of the later volumes weren’t completely finished before Proust died.