Negative Positive
Title: Don't be afraid...give Proust a try!
Review: This is Volume 2 in Proust's In Search of Lost Time series.In this volume, the narrator gets close to and then loses his first love, travels to Balbec, makes new friends, and starts to fall in love again. That's all that happens.But again, as in Swann's Way, Proust tells the reader every detail in beautiful prose - what the ocean looked like, why she acted that way, what the narrator is thinking, etc, etc.I found the first third of the book to be a little tiresome, since I was sick of the behavior of certain characters. But once we got a change of scene in the narrators travels to Balbec, I started to really enjoy Proust again.I have to say this once again - if anyone is curious yet intimidated by Proust (as I was), just try the first hundred pages of Swann's Way. You might be surprised.
Is the review positive or negative? 