false 418209 15 Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965--thirty years after its original publication--<b>Despair</b> is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder. 1258927 book 1939 Despair total:993|5:246|4:412|3:279|2:50|1:6| 993 3821 1387 68 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 931 64 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 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...]]> 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 931 64 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 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...]]> 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 931 64 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 5 3 false Thu Mar 20 06:17:42 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 20 06:17:58 -0700 2008 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 931 64 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 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...]]> 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 931 64 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 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...]]> 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 931 64 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 5 2 false Tue Oct 23 11:55:58 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 23 11:56:47 -0700 2007 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 931 64 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 4 0 false Thu Nov 19 12:26:33 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 12:38:57 -0800 2009 more...]]> 685668 3 1 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1238415106m/685668.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/685668.Despair 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...]]> 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 931 64 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 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...]]> 30585 014118454X 9780141184548 45 2 3.85 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30585.Despair 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...]]> 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 931 64 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 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...]]> 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 931 64 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 3 0 false Mon Jan 12 09:06:42 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 13:58:07 -0800 2009 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 931 64 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 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...]]> 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 931 64 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 3 0 false Wed Apr 01 08:57:27 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 07:13:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 931 64 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 5 0 false Thu Mar 19 11:21:22 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 11:23:31 -0700 2009 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 931 64 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 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...]]> 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 931 64 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 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...]]> 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 931 64 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 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 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 931 64 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 0 0 false Fri Dec 05 18:13:31 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 05 18:13:55 -0800 2008 418209 0679723439 9780679723431 931 64 3.85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174576248m/418209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418209.Despair 4 1 false Wed Feb 27 08:35:07 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 19 14:23:16 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=591265