I read it after someone bought me "How Proust can Change Your Life" as a gift (wouldnt recommend that one by the way lol)

I absolutely love it, I bought a 6 volume translation and was heartbroken when I reached the end of the final volume. My favourite volumes I have read so often they fell apart and had to be replaced. Its a beautiful journey through the French society of Prousts time, entered into via the memories both voluntary and involuntary of a man who wrote some wondrous prose.

Yes, I watched the one about the boy and the turtle only a few days ago.

Try "The Quiet Gentleman" by Georgette Heyer. Its the only one of hers Ive enjoyed, but I liked the humour in it, and the little murder mystery (although to be honest its easily guessed who the culprit is lol).

Its just a matter of taste. You enjoy the book so you are motivated to continue reading it, others dont, and arent. I adore Thomas Manns The Magic Mountain, I personally consider it one of the best books ever written. Part of the way through there are philosophical discussions between the Jesuit and the Professor and some of these are both complex and wordy...Ive had to read through those parts 2 or 3 times to understand what they are putting forward. If I didnt love the book so much, Id likely have given up at that point, and I wouldnt blame anyone that did, love for the rest carried me through. So yes, just taste.

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett

Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith

In Search Of Lost Time by Marcel Proust.

Yes, they were. It was common for male friends to kiss upon meeting and parting, and to walk around holding hands or with arms around each others waists. It was considered perfectly normal and acceptable in society, even after homosexuality had been made illegal. It was only after Oscar Wildes trial and imprisonment that men began to fear this kind of behaviour would be viewed as homosexual, and it very rapidly fell out of favour.