false 3937806 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg 418209 15 1258927 book 1939 Despair total:1012|5:252|4:419|3:284|2:51|1:6| 1012 3896 1419 71 5152 3.94 98032 6216 10260652 48216 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 948 67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 3.85 4 9 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 11 06:13:12 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 11 06:23:22 -0800 2007
In this, one of his lesser-known works, the egotistical and foppish...more...]]> 8311864 102553 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 948 67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 3.85 5 3 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 27 08:39:57 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 30 12:20:52 -0700 2007
"Despair"...more...]]> 18169103 998465 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 948 67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 3.85 5 3 false Thu Mar 20 06:17:42 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 20 06:17:58 -0700 2008 81376539 1131766 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 948 67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 3.85 4 0 false Thu Dec 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 18 04:34:33 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 18 04:50:27 -0800 2009 more...]]> 46188160 1866446 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 948 67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 3.85 5 1 false Thu Feb 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 16:35:36 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 00:28:20 -0800 2009 more...]]> 45987566 165149 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 948 67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 3.85 5 1 false Sun Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 18:26:45 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 18:36:30 -0800 2009
A well-to-do man meets a man who looks very much like him,...more...]]> 8136930 572641 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 948 67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 3.85 5 2 false Tue Oct 23 11:55:58 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 23 11:56:47 -0700 2007 78338161 691587 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 948 67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 3.85 4 0 false Thu Nov 19 12:26:33 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 12:38:57 -0800 2009 more...]]> 43225350 186853 685668 3 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1238415106m/685668.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/685668.Despair 3.85 2 0 false Sun Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jan 16 06:25:51 -0800 2009 Mon Apr 06 05:32:00 -0700 2009
Hermann (the main character) is one like some running amok in these troubled financial times. He's living beyond his means, caught up in superficial things and quite full of himself....more...]]> 8465817 589916 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 948 67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 3.85 5 1 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 30 21:36:08 -0700 2007 Sat Nov 03 14:12:16 -0700 2007 more...]]> 68565953 110812 30585 014118454X 9780141184548 46 2 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30585.Despair 3.85 4 0 false Thu Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 11:22:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 03:05:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 40502018 1818279 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 948 67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 3.85 1 0 false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 20:13:49 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 20:13:49 -0800 2008 more...]]> 80780188 1759337 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 948 67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 3.85 3 0 false Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 12 13:41:39 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 12 13:44:53 -0800 2009
This book is not actually about sadness, as the title suggests. It's pretty entertaining..I didn't really understand the point of the book once I reached the end,...more...]]> 42786834 1898753 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 948 67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 3.85 3 0 false Mon Jan 12 09:06:42 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 13:58:07 -0800 2009 43148164 369169 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 948 67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 3.85 3 0 false Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jan 15 12:14:19 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 31 15:34:21 -0700 2009 I like Nabokov. I do. And I wanted to really love this novel.
It was a tough one to get into, kind of dry and meandering.
About 3/4ths of the way in, it starts to get interesting, and finally became un-put-downable.

If it turned out to be un-put-downable, then why the ...more...]]> 51142142 410016 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 948 67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 3.85 3 0 false Wed Apr 01 08:57:27 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 07:13:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 49781184 1109377 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 948 67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 3.85 5 0 false Thu Mar 19 11:21:22 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 11:23:31 -0700 2009 6653195 117543 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 948 67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 3.85 4 0 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 23 10:53:27 -0700 2007 Sat Nov 24 22:02:01 -0800 2007 more...]]> 30222743 1427262 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 948 67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 3.85 4 0 false Tue Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 15 09:01:42 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 02 19:53:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 49771410 2142992 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 948 67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 3.85 5 1 false Mon Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 19 09:40:21 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 09:43:05 -0700 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3937806