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Hands down, Nabokov's writing kicks ass and his insight into human nature is keen. I think that he's clever and interesting and funny, and if you haven't realized how seriously I am crushing on this guy than you need to read more books.
Lolita is a masterpiece, and no matter my love for Nabokov, he will have a difficult time convincing me that that book is not his best work (although I will keep looking). Pale Fire is an interesting book, because it's a poem, but no really, it's the story behind ...more
Lolita is a masterpiece, and no matter my love for Nabokov, he will have a difficult time convincing me that that book is not his best work (although I will keep looking). Pale Fire is an interesting book, because it's a poem, but no really, it's the story behind ...more
"I trust the reader appreciates the strangeness of this, because if he does not, there is no sense in writing poems, or notes to poems, or anything at all."
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