false \ 456742 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174930264m/456742.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174930264m/456742.jpg 12187 27 2138313 book 1969 Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle total:1604|5:736|4:515|3:258|2:77|1:19| 1604 6682 2754 187 12187 0679725229 9780679725220 1519 176 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649631m/12187.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12187.Ada_or_Ardor_A_Family_Chronicle 5 8 false Mon May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 25 08:47:50 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 10:53:44 -0700 2008 Ada, and only Ada, for the rest of my life and still feel satisfied. For the most part, I read this book the way I usually read the first time around - that is, superficially, just trying to make general sense of what's going ...more...]]> 12187 0679725229 9780679725220 1519 176 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649631m/12187.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12187.Ada_or_Ardor_A_Family_Chronicle 3 4 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 25 06:41:21 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 01:55:28 -0800 2009 more...]]> 12187 0679725229 9780679725220 1519 176 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649631m/12187.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12187.Ada_or_Ardor_A_Family_Chronicle 4 4 false Mon Feb 11 20:48:59 -0800 2008 Sat May 05 09:36:18 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 18:57:07 -0800 2009 more...]]> 12187 0679725229 9780679725220 1519 176 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649631m/12187.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12187.Ada_or_Ardor_A_Family_Chronicle 4 3 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Wed Dec 05 16:47:29 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 05 16:56:43 -0800 2007 more...]]> 12187 0679725229 9780679725220 1519 176 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649631m/12187.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12187.Ada_or_Ardor_A_Family_Chronicle 5 2 false Sat Oct 20 17:18:15 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 20 01:17:25 -0800 2007 more...]]> 12187 0679725229 9780679725220 1519 176 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649631m/12187.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12187.Ada_or_Ardor_A_Family_Chronicle 4 0 false Thu Apr 16 07:59:11 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 10:59:28 -0700 2009 Ada is undoubtedly a masterpiece. Isn't that the joy of reading Nabokov anyway, the joy of watching a master at work? The seeming ease of his complicated prose, the assimilation of polyglot, portmonteau words, annagrammitic tricks, haute vocabulary, allusion, and la...more...]]> 12187 0679725229 9780679725220 1519 176 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649631m/12187.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12187.Ada_or_Ardor_A_Family_Chronicle 3 1 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 25 18:07:29 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 28 08:04:47 -0700 2007 more...]]> 12187 0679725229 9780679725220 1519 176 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649631m/12187.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12187.Ada_or_Ardor_A_Family_Chronicle 0 1 false Fri Mar 02 07:49:41 -0800 2007 Mon Sep 17 07:25:29 -0700 2007 more...]]> 12187 0679725229 9780679725220 1519 176 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649631m/12187.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12187.Ada_or_Ardor_A_Family_Chronicle 4 0 false Sun Oct 11 15:16:52 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 15:16:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 12187 0679725229 9780679725220 1519 176 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649631m/12187.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12187.Ada_or_Ardor_A_Family_Chronicle 3 0 false Mon Apr 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 01:15:25 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 01:15:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 12187 0679725229 9780679725220 1519 176 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649631m/12187.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12187.Ada_or_Ardor_A_Family_Chronicle 5 1 false Sun Jan 06 09:32:57 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 06 22:18:04 -0800 2008 more...]]> 12187 0679725229 9780679725220 1519 176 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649631m/12187.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12187.Ada_or_Ardor_A_Family_Chronicle 5 0 false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 06:35:51 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 06:47:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 12187 0679725229 9780679725220 1519 176 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649631m/12187.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12187.Ada_or_Ardor_A_Family_Chronicle 5 0 false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jan 26 08:06:47 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 08:24:53 -0800 2009 more...]]> 12187 0679725229 9780679725220 1519 176 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649631m/12187.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12187.Ada_or_Ardor_A_Family_Chronicle 4 0 false Fri Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jul 31 05:03:44 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 20 03:53:27 -0800 2009 more...]]> 12187 0679725229 9780679725220 1519 176 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649631m/12187.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12187.Ada_or_Ardor_A_Family_Chronicle 4 0 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Apr 01 11:32:39 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 11:33:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 12187 0679725229 9780679725220 1519 176 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649631m/12187.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12187.Ada_or_Ardor_A_Family_Chronicle 2 0 false Sun Nov 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 21 16:52:45 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 01 06:03:15 -0800 2009 here.

I did it! I conquered my nemesis book: Ada! It only took me a decade to get through it, but in the end - Nabokov, I sunk your battleship!!!!!

Okay, so maybe that's a bit too enthusiastic, especially for a book that in the end, I didn't even like. In fact, ...more...]]> 12187 0679725229 9780679725220 1519 176 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649631m/12187.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12187.Ada_or_Ardor_A_Family_Chronicle 5 0 false Wed Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 21 12:05:01 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 12 10:17:56 -0700 2008 more...]]> 12187 0679725229 9780679725220 1519 176 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649631m/12187.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12187.Ada_or_Ardor_A_Family_Chronicle 4 0 false Thu May 01 04:26:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 02 08:02:06 -0700 2008 more...]]> 12187 0679725229 9780679725220 1519 176 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649631m/12187.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12187.Ada_or_Ardor_A_Family_Chronicle 5 0 false Wed Mar 26 13:47:29 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 26 13:48:31 -0700 2008
"He held her, and kissed her, and kissed her again as if she had returned from a long and perilous journey. The sweetness of her smile was something quite unexpected and special. It was not the sly demon smile of remembered or promised ardor, but the ex...more...]]> 88415 0070457204 9780070457201 21 5 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171134385m/88415.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88415.Ada_or_Ardor_A_Family_Chronicle 4 1 false Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jan 26 18:30:33 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 03 19:47:40 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=456742