I miss our "We love everything VN wrote except Ada" thread on real ILX.
― wang dang google doodle (James Redd), Friday, 16 December 2011 02:14 (twelve years ago) link
Yep!
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 16 December 2011 03:03 (twelve years ago) link
actually I don't like a lot of his novels.
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 16 December 2011 03:06 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, a half dozen of his short stories and "canonical" novels are all I need.
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 16 December 2011 03:07 (twelve years ago) link
in an old interview I read of his, nabokov said it's pronounced like it is when you say "up nina"
― good webinar (ha ha I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 16 December 2011 05:17 (twelve years ago) link
the two long ones (ada and the gift) are my least favorites
― n/a, Friday, 16 December 2011 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't care all that much for Pale Fire or even Lolita. Glory (in translation obv) was ok and there were a couple others I couldn't really make myself read. Pnin is my favorite - maybe it's Nabokov for people who don't love Nabokov, idk.
― Hurting, Friday, 16 December 2011 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
Pnin is kind of an outlier, it feels warmer and more human and less dense than most of his books - it's probably my second- or third-favorite Nabokov. I think there is depth there but he doesn't fuck with his readers as directly as in most of his books.
― n/a, Friday, 16 December 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, that's why I like it so much: it's a victory lap novel.
― Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 17 December 2011 01:55 (twelve years ago) link