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Great review! I read Vladimir a few years ago and loved how provocative it was.
I did not finish Lolita, which offers no solution. When I learned how much Vera Nabokov protected her husband and disappeared behind Vladimir, it gave me the creeps. Many reasons to tell a similar story from a female perspective - and it just does not get less creepy.
Read While It Rains wrote: "Great review! I read Vladimir a few years ago and loved how provocative it was."
Thank you for the kind words; I'm confess at this point, I'm as fascinated by responses to the book as the book itself 😂
Sophie wrote: "I did not finish Lolita, which offers no solution. When I learned how much Vera Nabokov protected her husband and disappeared behind Vladimir, it gave me the creeps. Many reasons to tell a similar ..."
Err, I hope it didn't sound like I was holding Nabokov up as a paragon of virtue. But there's a difference between "wrote a book about [x]" and "is definitely an [x] yourself."
O no! this was about the point of difference between writer and an story and lack of resolution
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Jan 03, 2026 01:12AM
Great review! I read Vladimir a few years ago and loved how provocative it was.
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I did not finish Lolita, which offers no solution. When I learned how much Vera Nabokov protected her husband and disappeared behind Vladimir, it gave me the creeps. Many reasons to tell a similar story from a female perspective - and it just does not get less creepy.
Read While It Rains wrote: "Great review! I read Vladimir a few years ago and loved how provocative it was."Thank you for the kind words; I'm confess at this point, I'm as fascinated by responses to the book as the book itself 😂
Sophie wrote: "I did not finish Lolita, which offers no solution. When I learned how much Vera Nabokov protected her husband and disappeared behind Vladimir, it gave me the creeps. Many reasons to tell a similar ..."
Err, I hope it didn't sound like I was holding Nabokov up as a paragon of virtue. But there's a difference between "wrote a book about [x]" and "is definitely an [x] yourself."
O no! this was about the point of difference between writer and an story and lack of resolution
