My experience of Proust thus far is pretty much the reverse -- I was totally sold on the Overture and Combray, and I've experienced Swann in Love - Madame Swann at Home as pretty much of a piece: brilliant on the details, but so very, very slow on plot movement that by the time anything happens I have ceased to care. Possibly if I can't deal with multiple volumes mostly composed of ineffectual moping then Proust is just not for me.