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Glory is a cautionary tale for me. Nabokov displays moments of greatness, like the fight scene in this book. His books cannot be faulted in construction, organization or language as motifs and themes weave in and out of themselves consistently. And that is the problem -- too consistent, too logical, too direct to make the story come alive -- the puppet show is ruined because the strings of the author are all too apparent. I see Nabokov more than I see the characters, yet he is interesting enough
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Dec 22, 2009
Juliana Philippa
marked it as to-read
