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Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire: 101 Luminaries Ponder Love, Death, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life

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Interesting people with interesting answers to the questions. This book is easy to pick up and choose a page or person to read about. Good for a coffee table.

I enjoyed this book very much. I always turn to the last page of VF to read the Proust interview before I read the magazine. This is a collection of same. Insightful in some cases, frivolous in others..all are cool!

Proust did not lose any time, when he wanted to understand human nature. Almost a century later, his questionnaire still elicits amazing insights ! For some reason, people tend to try to beat the smartness of the questions, by circumventing them or issuing outrageous answers.

The result: you get to know the true personalities of the answerers better than through any other means.

It is great fun !

The very best part of Vanity Fair in one book. Brilliant Character drawings of some of the world's most popular people sharing some of their inner self.

really entertaining what successful, famous people have to say. tinge of psychosis; and you realize sometimes how similar they are to you.

Nice book, attractive and high quality.
Enjoy the monthly questions asked in Vanity Fair so this book was a gift to myself.
I doubt most people have asked themselves, or answered, the questions Proust made famous as parlor games. Some of the celebrity answers are insightful, some irreverent, some surprising.

Despite the rather pretentious title, this book does have 101 (a pretentious number too) luminaries (pretentious) pondering (in one page capsules) "love, death, happiness and the meaning of life." A must have book for the person that likes to dip into deeper things. The best part of the book? The illustrations by Risko of all the luminaries--and on quality paper.

Enjoyed flipping through these surveys. Some made me laugh, some made me groan and some gave me new perspectives. It was interesting to see what celebrities were featured and how they responded. Would enjoy filling a Proust questionnaire out myself and was happy to find a blank questionnaire at the back!

I've had this book on my wish list for months and finally ordered it. For the price, it is a great coffee table book! Fun to just pick up, open to any page and read a celebrity's questionnaire. Great read, great value!

I read it easily in 1-2 days, but my friends love flipping through it on my coffee table in my room. Very cool interviews and the illustrations are simply amazing. WHEN you buy this, be sure to check out "Coco" Conan O' Brien's interview. It is simply fabulous! :)