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I finally have a reason to read the 800 million baby books in print…

I'm 60 pages from the end and tempted to abandon this and just read a summary of the ending. This is an unreadable mess.

Quite good in many ways, but starting to really wander and ramble by this point.

I was, it turns out, just a couple of pages away from the novel’s first real narrative shift.

We might actually arrive at the last page of this novel without a single thing of narrative interest happening at any point.

Desperately, painfully dull, I have to say.

There’s virtually nothing of any narrative interest here so far, and the evocation of the moment is a bit absurd at times, though the writing itself is consistently lovely. (At around the halfway point of a novel, if you’re still waiting for narrative interest, you’re probably waiting in vain.)

Spellbinding stuff so far.

Swann's Odette/Botticelli realization is at least as interesting a moment as the narrator's famous madeleine.

Especially enjoyed the scene where he fights the giant octopus

It would be great if this was a site where you could meet and connect with fellow readers

Wonderful so far

anything

Off the battlefield already.

Things are starting to drag on Mynydd Baddon.

literally anything

Another storyworld that it’s lovely to revisit…

does anybody read these?

It’s such a joy to spend time in this world again.

All these reviews people are posting of Stephen King's You Like It Darker make me want to revisit Leonard Cohen's You Want It Darker.

This is still engrossing, but I'm ready to be on to something else.