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... by Samuel Beckett
IV. Best non-fiction: Complete Essays of Michel de Montaigne (from The Complete Works)
Runner-up: Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
V. Best collection of stories or novellae: Four Novels by Marguerite Duras
Runner-up: The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood ... ... Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Volume 1
The Cobra's Heart by Ryszard Kapuscinski
The Eaves of Heaven by Andrew X. Pham
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
Love Letters from Cell 92 by Ruth-Alice von Bismarck and Ulrich Kabitz, editors
The Diary of Mary Berg by S.L. Shneiderman, editor
L ... ... My list nothing - you posted your own :)
#305: Thanks for stopping by, Deborah! I look forward to your thoughts on Speak, Memory in 2010. ... to, but I must say that I am sorry to hear that is continues downhill after such a promising beginning.
#301: Bonnie, Speak, Memory is the master wordsmith at his best, IMHO. It does not read like a traditional biography, so be forewarned. I hope you enjoy it. I am hoping to get to Pnin ... ... Fire. I reread Lolita last year, and Pale Fire this year, so I'm due for a reread of Ada. I also hope to read Speak, Memory next year.
See you over on your 2010 thread next week! ... Lolita. I have Pale Fire on my nightstand and now, and, thanks to you Stasia, I will add Ada. I'm going to look for Speak, Memory that I will sneak into my All About Me (memoir) category in the 1010 challenge. Thanks Stasia. #290/291: I have not read Lolita yet. I have read, in addition to Ada, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight and Speak, Memory, Nabokov's autobiography, which is on my memorable reads list for the year. It is absolutely wonderful! ... completes my Library of America collection of Nabokov. I got it mostly for formal reasons, although I may be interested in Speak, Memory. The price had been going up and down; I ordered the book when the price was down.
Opera's Second Death by Slavoj Zizek. Opera and renegade ... ... a dozen times. I loaned Dr. Thorne to my sister, and she loaned The Warden to me in return.)
Lolita because I loved Speak, Memory and it's so famous that I am trying to overcome extreme squeamishness because of the icky topic. I bought it a while ago, but have yet to read it.
... except for Dr. Thorne but I totally loved it and have already re-read it about a dozen times.)
Lolita because I loved Speak, Memory and it's so famous that I am overcoming extreme squeamishness because of the icky topic. I bought it a while ago, but have yet to read it. ... November's is particularly good - Orhan Pamuk discussing a piece by Vladimir Nabokov (actually an extract from Speak, Memory).
http://www.newyorker.com/online/podcasts/fiction ... and Sons. And War and Peace. Just read AK and loved it too. Have not read any Pushkin. Does Nabokov count? I loved Speak, Memory. ... >April
Fiction: Tie - Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi wa Thiongo and Germinal by Emile Zola
Nonfiction: Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
May
Fiction: Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
Nonfiction: I did not have an outstanding nonfiction read for May.
< ... Nabokovʻs Speak, Memory! ...
Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truss (1st ed.)
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
Ludwig Wittgenstein by David Pears
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabakov
Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire: the Conquest of Solitude
Levertov, Rexroth, Williams (poetry collection)
All for $5! ... can narrow it down to just 1 or 2. I might be able to pick 1 or 2 from each category, though: Nonfiction - Columbine and Speak, Memory; Fiction - Wizard of the Crow and Doomsday Book; Young Adult - The Hunger Games and The Underneath. I am not sure I am even happy with those choices, ... #56: I discovered Nabokov last year and have really liked the couple of his that I have read. His autobiography Speak, Memory is on my memorable reads list for this year. Glad to see he has found another fan! I will have to give The Eye a try. I really like Nabokov's writing - his Speak, Memory is an absolutely wonderful book - but I just cannot make myself read Lolita. I would recommend some of his other books to you though because he is a very good writer. ... have Pnin there - I discovered Nabakov last year in his The Real Life of Sebastian Knight and this year read his Speak, Memory, which is on my memorable reads list for the year.
Thanks for all the recommendations! Speak, Memory, by Nabokov. (Original, and much better title, Conclusive Evidence.)
Nabokov is the master of language, and of insight. The pacing is impeccable, and each chapter takes us to extraordinary and unexpected places.
I never wanted it to end. My favorite title is also my favorite book, Nabokov's Conclusive Evidence, though he eventually changed it to Speak, Memory.
The original title referred to conclusive evidence of his having existed. ... care for - I am not sure, but when I finished it, the book just left me unsatisfied. I hope you get a chance to read both Speak, Memory and Villette this year. I look forward to seeing your thoughts on them. ... give When Titans Clashed as pass if I were you. The ones I would wholeheartedly recommend to you from this past week are Speak, Memory, Villette, One of Ours and My Own Country.
... anything other than Jane Eyre until I discovered it on Library Thing!
#260: Amy, I hope you get a chance to read Speak, Memory and enjoy it as much as I did.
#261: I hope all of Verghese's books live up to the first one, Kath!
... with my 2 Anne Bronte books!). I really want to read something by Nabakov and don't think I can handle Lolita so Speak Memory goes on the "to buy" list. (See how much I trust you!) In the Garden of Iden and My Own Country both sound great, so I'll be looking for them also. Of ... Villette and Speak, Memory are both waiting on my shelf, so I'm glad to hear you liked them both. I'm hoping to get to them this year. I'm sorry you didn't like The Reluctant Fundamentalist. I liked it very much--I found it more ambiguous than you seemed to. Stasia - What a great week you had! I'm about half way through My Own Country and am enjoying it too. Speak, Memory sounds amazing. I'll definitely at that one to the TBR list. ... was going to purchase the Reluctant Fundamentalist a couple of months ago.....so glad now I did not.
I've added 1968 and speak, memory to my TBR. Thanks for doing the legwork for me again :)
... get no sense of individuals/personalities involved; recommended for those who have an interest in the subject
174. Speak, Memory - nonfiction; this autobiography is in no sense a traditional one, this one is Nabokov as a word artist, almost like an impressionist painting; I loved it and ... I finished up When Titans Clashed and have started Speak, Memory, another book on my 'must-read' list for 2009. ... Kill
Job, a Comedy of Justice
Keeper of the Light
Cultural Literacy
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Speak, Memory - Read 04/21/09
A Separate Peace
Cryptonomicon
And the Dead Shall Rise
Move Your Shadow
Shutter Island
Dog Man
Peace Like a River ... last week i was at the library looking for speak memory --the memoir by nabokov, which allegedly was not checked out-- but ended up picking selected poetry of yehuda amichai from a neighboring aisle. yesterday i went again, nabokov still wasn't shelved and ended up taking anna akhmatova: ... ... are super but he steals a lot from previous commentators like Eustathius.
My suggestions are Pnin, Pale Fire and Speak, Memory. Strong Opinions which is a collection of interviews and letters is also great fun as Nabokov took relish in the height of his arc when he was pissing on ... ... and thought-provoking" list, which is constantly subject to change and currently does not seem to include much fiction:
Speak, Memory
100 Years of Solitude
The Upanishads
The Sufis
War and Peace
Lives of a Cell
Children's book top five:
The Little Prince
The Hobbit
T ... I just read Speak, Memory and loved it. My first Nabokov, and I will be reading more of him. ... Secret History of the Pink Carnation - Read 02/10/09
Cultural Literacy
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Speak, Memory
A Prayer for Owen Meany - slated to read in February
A Separate Peace
Cryptonomicon
And the Dead Shall Rise
Move Your Shadow
Shutter Island
... ... is not in the original.
One of the greatest titles I know is the one Nabokov chose for the French translation of Speak, Memory : Autres rivages ("Other shores") (not read yet). ... by Neil Gaiman
The Letters of Noel Coward edited by Barry Day
Ulysses by James Joyce (no, really!)
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
I'm cheating like mad, counting both a 12-book series and a 4-book quartet as 1 book.
edited to get it down to 10 ... of writings and interviews and whatnot in which he expresses said strong opinions. He gives us a taste of that in Speak, Memory - we learn he is not a fan of Freud. Or Thomas Mann. Or Henry James (!) or Dostoevsky. So I think it may be fun. #110 Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
I don't think I've had a chance to gush over Nabokov on my challenge thread yet this year, although I have other places on LT (like, whenever anyone anywhere brings up Lolita. Can't resist. It's a problem). How wonderful is he? So very wonderful. Sp ... ... past few weeks, The Historian, The Yiddish Policeman's Union and American Gods.
Still dawdling pleasurably over Speak, Memory and just jumped into The Spy Who Came In from the Cold. Why did no one ever insist I read this book before? Great sparse prose, use of subtext. I don't know ... ... I just read The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Nabokov last week and it will make my list of top books of the year. Speak, Memory is the next of his books that I will be reading. Glad to see that it is worth the time. Speak, Memory, the Vladimir Nabokov autobiography. It's so beautifully written it is hard to believe it isn't fiction. ... was good but disturbing. I've also started The Old Wives Tale by Arnold Bennett (also good, but not disturbing) and Speak, Memory by the great Vladimir Nabokov. It's wonderful so far, but then I think everything he wrote is wonderful. ...
The Double
Notes From the Underground
Eugene Onegin
The Enchanter
Invitation to a Beheading
The Defense
Speak, Memory* (also: American)
French
French or Foe
Paris: Biography of a City
Père Goriot
Sentimental Education
The Plague
The Stranger
Swann's Way ... ... the best novels by immigrants, I don't see how one can leave out Nabokov: Lolita, Pnin and others. Or the memoir Speak, Memory. Speak, Memory! West with the Night!! Doctor Thorne The Awakening A Separate Peace...alcottacre, please don't say these are library books that *shiver* must be returned! The pain, the pain.... ... and came out with a bunch:
Cultural Literacy by E.D. Hirsch
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Speak, Memory by Valdimir Nabakov
Never Change by Elizabeth Berg
Rose Cottage by Mary Stewart
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
Doctor ... ... first of many...well, as many as he's written, that is.
>114 jfetting, I am a Nabokov fan, and a devourer of his books. Speak, Memory is one of my second-tier titles, but one I turn to when I need a fast hit of Vladdy. It's not as densely packed as the novels tend to be, so makes for a ... ... The Eyre Affair is hilarious, and I think I may have to go re-read it again now.
The friendly UPS guy brought me Speak, Memory today. So excited! Ik lees Geheugen ,spreek ,de autobiografie van de eerste veertig jaar van Nabokovs leven .Pas begonnen en zeker uitnodigend tot verder lezen .Hier ,net als in zijn romans, regelmatig prachtige zinnen . This is a long list, but these are the ones I reread the most:
The italics are mine by nina berberova,
Speak memory by Vladimir Nabokov
Poetics by Aristotle
Eternal Peace by Immanuel Kant
On liberty by John Stuart Mill
A vindication of the Rights of Women by Ma ... ... Knight by Gene Wolfe might do the same trick. Or another standby go-to mood-changer for me is Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory.
OKay, I feel llike I'm getting too controlling here, so I'll stop. ... Knight by Gene Wolfe might do the same trick. Or another standby go-to mood-changer for me is Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory.
OKay, I feel llike I'm getting too controlling here, so I'll stop. Talk Talk, T.C. Boyle
I Cried, You Didn't Listen, Dwight Abbott
Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov
Criminal Conversation, Evan Hunter
Tell No One, Harlan Coben ... with time or would you still recommend it?
You have also reminded me of my latent interest in reading Nabokov. I have Speak, Memory and loved his style and world view - so I know i will take to his fiction too. The book fairy dropped by today and left:
Speak, Memory - Nabokov's autobiography. Yum.
Side Effects: A New Orleans Love Story - Patty Friedmann. I didn't realized it would be hardback. Bonus.
The Uses of Enchantment - Heidi Julavits.
The Dutchman - Maan Meyers. I'd never heard of ... ... the middle of the night), And while I was there...Enfance by Nathalie Saurraute, which I've been planning to reread, and Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov's autobiography.
I so have to stay away from this thread. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov. ... Klimt
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh: Chemicals, Crises, and Creativity by Wilfred N. Arnold
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov
... man - and what absolute sadness as he contemplates his physical progeny, Hazel, misfitted for this world.
Have you read Speak Memory? That book creeps in under your skin and stays with you for life.
And, of course, Ada. Physical, sensual, Ada. My husband often wishes that I read nothing ... ... Russian began when he was about 5, not sure where French came in exactly but if you peruse or preferably thoroughly read Speak, Memory you will find the correct order. ... John (message 19) about the judgement on Stalin versus the Tsars. Interestingly, I have just finished reading Nabokov Speak Memory, which is a wonderful book with truly amazing writing, and Nabokov has some views on this very question. He came from a very privileged stratum of society so ... ... is blind; Rex lacks any sense of empathy and I found him quite narcissitic in pursing his thrills.
I am reading Speak Memory which is beautiful and I highly recommend it; this is a book to read and re-read and savour for the language and the thoughts and the images. Quite remarkable. ... I really can't wait to read Speak Memory.
speaking about favourites, i believe Laughter In The dark is one of the best stories.
Alex Rex, the character is by far one of the best characters i've read.
... Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Short Stories by Anton Chekhov
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
That should keep me busy through March. ... of his Russian novels is The Gift, of his American ones is either Pale Fire or Lolita. I adore Pnin as well. But Speak, Memory is probably my favorite of his books. My favorite of the editions I own is The Real Life of Sebastian Knight in the original red burlap-covered boards with ... ... Fire.
As for non-fiction - Peter Matthiessen's Snow Leopard and In The Spirit Of Crazy Horse, and Nabokov's Speak Memory are some of the other major ones. I'd also very much agree with the Tao Te Ching. I have an affinity for Chechov; he just was a nice guy, who happened to a ridiculously talented writer. I've read Speak, Memory and Mashen'ka or Mary by Nabokov, and enjoyed both books very much. I'm hoping to start Lolita soon: what other books of his do you all recommend? Vladimir Nabokov hands down. Speak, memory back to King, Queen, Knave his prose is perfection. And btw, I agree with arkandco in that Speak, Memory is ideal to begin reading Nabokov. And the Brian Boyd bios are excellent. ... at the moment - but several members.
Cateline I've long promised myself a read of the Nabakov biography - but only after Speak memory.
Literary biographies don't always work well - is it just because some authors don't live particularly interesting lives - or that they do not recycle their ... I agree with Tim. Pnin is my favorite, though the work I most often recommend to first-time readers is his memoir Speak, Memory -- accessible, beautifully written and each chapter is a self-contained gem. But back to Pnin. One of my favorite passages is our introduction to his "son", Victor ... ... Lolita. (On the former, which seems very simple, see Barabtarlo Phantom of Fact.) Then Pale Fire, Ada, Speak Memory, Despair. Brian Boyd's Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years is without question my favorite biography—not of Nabokov, since I've only read one—but of ...
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