30 has been achieved!
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
After many, many, many months of reading, I have finished "Swann's Way". I wish I could say I was smarter for reading this but I can not. I can say that I have more insight, new ways to view the world and an awareness of my surroundings that I did not have before. Proust is not an easy read and often one page can take hours to comprehend. But I would still recommend this book to others. No one sees the world in quite the same way as Proust. He is long-winded but always seems to tie everything up with that one last sentence. And if you only had that one sentence to go on, you wouldn't get his meaning as well as when you read the many pages he's written as background.
And with this book, I've accomplished my goal of reading 30 books while I was 30 years old. In the end, I know that I'll be reading more than 30 books this year but I'm not sure if I would have accomplished this goal if it hadn't been written down. Now I am reading "A Million Little Pieces" by James Frey because one can not resist the Oprah.
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
After many, many, many months of reading, I have finished "Swann's Way". I wish I could say I was smarter for reading this but I can not. I can say that I have more insight, new ways to view the world and an awareness of my surroundings that I did not have before. Proust is not an easy read and often one page can take hours to comprehend. But I would still recommend this book to others. No one sees the world in quite the same way as Proust. He is long-winded but always seems to tie everything up with that one last sentence. And if you only had that one sentence to go on, you wouldn't get his meaning as well as when you read the many pages he's written as background.
And with this book, I've accomplished my goal of reading 30 books while I was 30 years old. In the end, I know that I'll be reading more than 30 books this year but I'm not sure if I would have accomplished this goal if it hadn't been written down. Now I am reading "A Million Little Pieces" by James Frey because one can not resist the Oprah.
