Sodom and Gomorrah (Cities of the Plain), Part I (Abridged) Audiobook

" Sometimes delicious, sometimes a slog, though I've been reading it so slowly, in fits and starts, that I'm not sure I've got anything cohesive to say about it. Bits and pieces: gay gay gay, the social world and all the humor in it, jealousy, grief, spring and wanting, pettiness, habit and stasis vs. newness and possibility: a long slow summer, learning a place. "

" I really didn't like this one much. Only one in which I skipped over certain passages. But ambitious writing and serious attempt to deal with homosexuality, which I am not qualified to judge. "

" The world turns (literally?), the Dreyfus Affair resolved, the adventures of Baron Charlus! and a late encounter with Bloch's uncle, M. Nissim Bernard. "

" The worst of the lot. But fragrant! "

" Please refer to my review of this work as a whole. "

" My reading slowed right down in this volume, but there is still so much to enjoy here, and it is head and shoulders above so much else. "

" I found the prose in this volume clumsier than in the first three. I don't know if that's the fault of the translator, though I suspect it is. "

" Still enjoying Proust and this journey through a man's memories, now reached the young man phase of his life. "

" First 2000/2001. Most reently summer/fall 2007. "

" no, i actually started reading this this summer (2010). so far, so very delicious. "

" Falling in love with Baron de Charlus. What a rich character! So bitchy and suave. "

" I love Remembrance of Things Past as a whole (esp. Swann's Way and the Guermantes Way), but for some reason this book didn't work for me the way the others did... "

" I really didn't like this one much. Only one in which I skipped over certain passages. But ambitious writing and serious attempt to deal with homosexuality, which I am not qualified to judge. "

" I found the prose in this volume clumsier than in the first three. I don't know if that's the fault of the translator, though I suspect it is. "

" I would lay my cheeks gently against the comfortable cheeks of my pillow, as plump and blooming as thecheeks of babyhood. Or I would strike a match to look at my watch. "