Futility Now » Marcel Proust http://futilitynow.com Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:46:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Some Books are Dumber Than Others http://futilitynow.com/2009/03/11/some-books-are-dumber-than-others/ http://futilitynow.com/2009/03/11/some-books-are-dumber-than-others/#comments Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:14:32 +0000 jmags http://futilitynow.com/?p=159 So I finally gave up on The Captive. I couldn’t take any more and gave the last 30 pages or so only the most cursory skimming. Even that was exhausting and, frankly, kind of degrading. I would say that of the many books that I’ve read that are counted amongst literature’s shining lights, this is the worst. By a wide margin.

Presumably The Fugitive will be an improvement if for no other reason that there needs to be something new for Marcel to complain about without Albertine. Still, I think I’m going to take a little break to avoid accidentally counting my lingering resentments against the new volume.

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