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Moshe.. · 03-04-2008, 10:24 PM

Yes definitely! Nabokov: the rolls royce of english prose. But I get slightly sea-sick when I read too much of him. It's like eating foie gras all day. Sometimes you just want baked-beans and a fiat uno! Fiat is so much easier to park. I've never actually parked a rolls royce (or eaten baked beans, in case you think I'm some kind of culinary eccentric!)

For something really similar to 'the collector', it's got to be 'pale fire'. You know that sense of profound subjectivity and lack of self-awareness in clegg, it's just like kinbote.
Pale Fire is a million times better than lolita! It was just a bit too much of a campus novel to catch on with the general public. It's too clever clever.

Speak Memory also wonderful, only it's so densely written!

And Bend Sinister, much preferable to 1985.

03-04-2008, 10:24 PM	#14 (permalink)
Moshe.. il dolce far niente Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: hampstead Posts: 1,016 My Profile	Yes definitely! Nabokov: the rolls royce of english prose. But I get slightly sea-sick when I read too much of him. It's like eating foie gras all day. Sometimes you just want baked-beans and a fiat uno! Fiat is so much easier to park. I've never actually parked a rolls royce (or eaten baked beans, in case you think I'm some kind of culinary eccentric!) For something really similar to 'the collector', it's got to be 'pale fire'. You know that sense of profound subjectivity and lack of self-awareness in clegg, it's just like kinbote. Pale Fire is a million times better than lolita! It was just a bit too much of a campus novel to catch on with the general public. It's too clever clever. Speak Memory also wonderful, only it's so densely written! And Bend Sinister, much preferable to 1985. Last edited by Moshe.. : 03-04-2008 at 10:35 PM.