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| American Postmodernism : The Floating Opera | | 3 | ateolf, June 7 | |
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| Nabokov! : Pale Fire | | 19 | krolik, March 17 | |
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| 1001 Books to read before you die : Best 1001 Books Alphabetically | | 160 | kiwiflowa, Today 12:52am |
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| Fans of Russian authors : Who is your favorite Russian author and why? | | 40 | EnriqueFreeque, September 6 |
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| Book talk : Novels that are poems | | 20 | WholeHouseLibrary, July 17 |
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| What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 26 April 2008 | | 160 | alcottacre, May 3 |
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| Nabokov! : Message Board | | 31 | citygirl, April 22 |
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| Dormant: Book talk : Everyone hates the POSTMODERN novels we love! | | 67 | Madcow299, December 2007 |
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| Dormant: Go Review That Book! : The Game Thread | | 225 | reading_fox, November 2007 |
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| Dormant: Book talk : Name that poem (or poet) | | 183 | gautherbelle, April 2007 |
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| Dormant: Covers : Evocative | | 26 | MaggieO, November 2006 |
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Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Whiter Shade of Pale by Jon Bing
Shade's Children by Garth Nix
Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card
Mind Over Matter: Conversations with the Cosmos by K.C. Cole #81 I loved Pale Fire. Have fun with it! ... joining me), my Set-it-Yourself challenge for the next quarter is also to read ten books from the list(s), starting with Pale Fire which made its way into my home today.
http://www.readerofthestack.com/siy-challenge.html ... I must be slipping.
Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcon
The Floating Opera and the End of the Road by John Barth
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Yes - Pale Fire is very good. One of the very best "unreliable narrator" works - a hugely enjoyable genre. I agree with overthemoon and Pepys re Nabokov. Let us have Pale Fire first, as that needs to be better known than Lolita. ...
The Confessions
The Koran
Paradise Lost
The Dream of the Red Chamber
The Tale of Genji
The Magic Mountain
Pale Fire
First Circle
... resolve the issue by saying that yes, I have read the Snopes trilogy, including The Hamlet, and ask if anyone has read Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov. (The link here is: my two favorite writers!)
Does that work? Collected Ficciones
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
Invisible Cities
Ulysses
Pale Fire
Manhattan Transfer
Infinite Jest
# 118 Pale Fire is one of the best books I've ever read! Absolutely brilliant, and funny, and I would argue not at all disturbing. Enjoy! ... had me disgusted, but it was, in the end, a very disturbing and intriguing book. I all but cried at the end. Next up come Pale Fire and Pnin. I don't know yet if these will bring me to a happier place. ... I think half of the lines from The Picture of Dorian Gray have ended up in my commonplace book. Also, I hope you enjoy Pale Fire! It's really an amazing book. ... to those already mentioned I'd like to add The Poisonwood Bible and The Picture of Dorian Gray. I have just moved Pale Fire up a couple of books in my TBR pile because of your recommendations. I'm definitely caught between Pale Fire and Possession: A Romance -- both completely incredible books! ... are the P books I love so very much:
Pride and Prejudice
Possession: A Romance
Perfume: the story of a murderer
Pale Fire
A Pale View of Hills
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
See? Too many good P books. well, it's no Pale Fire, but i thought The Floating Opera was still a really great book... I wasn't too fond of it but that's just my taste. After you read it, take a look at Nabokov, say Pale Fire, and see what you think of the comparison. ... It's amazing how many hints Nabokov scatters through the text, and are obvious on a second reading. Or you could read Pale Fire! Also, I had a lot of trouble with Nostromo too - the first 3/4 (all the exposition) really drag. Good luck with that! The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
Pale Fire by Nabokov
Fire in the Blood by Irene Nemirovsky #83: Pale Fire is, without a doubt, one of the great novels of all time. It's really Nabokov at his finest, at the height of his powers. I am waiting for a BookMooch copy of Pale Fire and am thrilled to read your wow! Now reading Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov ... my mini review: wow.
I'm about 3/4 of the way through Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov ... ideal for anyone who enjoys post-modern David Foster Wallace-type novels, I'd think ... for my nonfiction, I'm reading Patriotic Gore by Edmund Wilson ... another great stylist, Wilson in this book takes a critic's ... After a brief hiatus from this group, I posted my review of Pale Fire (along with a couple other reviews I've been meaning to get around to for months, if you're at all curious).
Reading fox, great review of the hamster book by the way, I think I'd like you to review When Jack sued Jill ... Pale Fire by Nabokov. ... and Peace
17. Anna Kerenina
18. Huckleberry Finn
19. Ulysses
20. The Trial
21. The Sound and the Fury
22. Pale Fire
23. The Plague
24. The Great Gatsby
25. Things Fall Apart
citygirl, I've read Pale Fire a couple of times, even have a US 1st ed. of it, and it's sui generis, in a league of its own. Notable this quarter:
Ada, or Ardor - Nabokov
Pale Fire - Nabokov
Nabokov's pretty much going to shove any others down to another league,
and
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris. This last one because it made me laugh hard and often. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov. Absolutely brilliant, of course. So many layers. I look forward to a re-reading sometime in the future. I think a struggling writer could get by on a diet of nothing but Nabokov.
Note to Medellia: I have your thread starred too :-) Finished A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh and started Pale Fire by Nabokov. Through the mails came a book bonanza:
Pnin and
Pale Fire by V. Nabokov
An American Childhood - Annie Dillard
The Night Watch - Sarah Waters
The Echo - Minette Walters
I ordered Pale Fire and Pnin, both by Nabokov (you get a discount if you buy them together) and they will arrive on Wednesday, despite the fact that I have no immediate plans to read them. Also, I am contemplating getting myself invited on a road trip with work friends to a big book fair this ... ... so far.
The Infernal Desire machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter
The Chess Garden by Brooks Hansen
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
The Exploits of Engelbrecht by Maurice Richardson
And the 9-out-of-10s. Hopefully there's some gems here for like-minded ... Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov ... only will a work materialize from the discussions, but that we - his slavish readers - will go back and read, at a minimum: Pale Fire, Look at the Harlequins!, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight - and as we reread we will be reading entirely different works with new eyes.
He also throws a ... ... from the grave?"
And lo and behold, I recognize something – do you?
Yes, old VNN kept the manuscript to test the Pale Fire hypothesis! He’s with us yet or not. If you agree with Brian Boyd’s reading of Pale Fire, you’ll know that the deceased John Shade guided the hand of Kin ... Oh, a lesson learned from Nabokov. If you skip his footnotes, you've missed the story.
Pale Fire.
In Weigel's case, the text often acts as prelude - the footnotes provide the composition. Lewis is the same, I think.
(To supplement my meager municipal income, I often do translation or ... ... "ergodic" literature is a fixation of mine, however. I'm currently writing a large research paper on House of Leaves, Pale Fire and their rehearsal of/relationship to literary criticism. Absolutely fascinating to me, but yes I can see how that stuff would be pretty dry for a lot of people. ... read, like before LT.
To the Lighthouse
Franny and Zooey
David Copperfield
Mrs. Dalloway
Henry and June
Pale Fire - Nabokov
Far from the Madding Crowd
Bleak House
The Prince - Machiavelli, not Harry Potter as the touchstone says.
Portrait of a Lady
Catch-22
Lo ... Hello all. I'm new to this group and ready to read.
Llamagirl, please read Pale Fire. I have it too and haven't read it so I'll read it as well and then see what you think.
Whoever chooses for me: check under my TBR tag and try to find something you have read and liked. Thank you!
... do much.
ADHD readers (I'm one, too) get bored easily. (Send us to the back of the class room with a dog-eared copy of Pale Fire and we'll stay quiet, I promise)
Regarding Pale Fire: check out LT'er MichaelMenche's review.
Regarding Infinite Jest: Girlfriend Stops Reading David Foster Wallace Breakup Letter At Page 20
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/27769 Surprised nobody's mentioned the grand-daddy of many of the above: Nabokov's Pale Fire. It also shows that bigger isn't necessarily better. I had to join this group just so I could join in the Pale Fire celebration.
I read Lolita because it is a notorious classic and on so many "must read" lists (and I must read must read list books). I admired it, even enjoyed it, but it didn't make me want to run out and read every word Naboko ... ... desert island, I'd bring along that Worst-case Scenario Survival Handbook. If that wasn't allowed, I'd go for Lolita or Pale Fire, or really anything by Nabokov. I'd also bring along Lisa Carey, because she's my wife.
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)
ANYWAY... I agree. The argument ... ... friends, but often in new clothes or, at least, dressed in something I hadn't noticed before.
And everytime I re-read Pale Fire I change my mind about who actually wrote the poem. That one, in particular, is a game of chess. Different each time, certainly.
Pale Fire by Nabokov I also read The God of Small Things twice. I didn't enjoy it nearly as much the second time.
Others are:
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
I rarely allow myself the ... ... happily get lost in: a house of mirrors with no exit, a labyrinth with no endpoint.—L.G.
From the TIME Archive:
Pale Fire does not really cohere as a satire; good as it is, the novel in the end seems to be mostly an exercise in agility
—TIME Magazine, Jun. 1, 1962 (Read This Revie ... 2: Not a typo. The book takes you from the late nineteenth to the mid twentieth century.
I am pretty sure I read Pale Fire before Ada, or Ardor, but I don't see why that would be necessary. And I still haven't gotten around to reading Pnin, so. Ada is great though. You must love it! Pale Fire was brillliantly done, but I could't finish it. I found the narrator/poet completely loathesome. I'm Pale Fire by Vladmir Nabokov.
You're really into poetry and the interpretation thereof. Along the road of life, you have had several identity crises which make it very unclear who you are, let alone how to interpret poetry. You probably came from a foreign country, but then again you seem ... Fritz Leiber is often thought of as a science fiction writer, or the creator of the incredible sword & sorcery characters Fafhrd & Gray Mouser but to me, he'll always be one of the very finest practitioners of the weird tale.
I've always been in tune with Leiber's idea of strange geometries and ... The poem in Pale fire by Nabokov is a classic of the genre. Sophie's world by Jostein Gaarder has a great twist on this theme. A personal favorite is A perfect vacuum by Stanislaw Lem, a collection of reviews of non-existent books. ... having to perform the arduous task of deciding on a book myself.
Mary, I'd love to see what you think of Nabokov's Pale Fire. It's been recommended to me countless times. well the Sixth Doctor onscreen was loud and aggressive (as I understand it, because that's what Colin Baker was told to play) while on audio he's more well-rounded,
have you heard any Doctor Who audios? The BBC have made some Paul McGann stories available online, but the only Colin Baker ... If you'll allow me a banal observation, his most "American" novels (I'm thinking Pnin, Lolita and Pale Fire) are written from the perspective of a bewildered (Pnin), bemused (Humbert) or just plain disassociated (Kinbote) European narrator.
Write what you know, I guess.
As for the Swi ... ... earlier by Ishiguro, that I got bogged down in it at one point, but I stuck with it and was glad that I did. I have read A Pale View fo the Hills, but it is so long ago (about 20 years!) that I have forgotten it. I just got it down off the shelf. The blurb on the back talks about Etsuko, a J ... ... to discover a new area of the country or a new ethnic or national tradition. I've enjoyed the Fiona Mountain mysteries Pale as the grave and Bloodline. They are set in England so you learn about different sources. I'm interested in the Psychic Roots. Although I'm afraid some of my ... ... Reading for 2006 Edited by Dave Eggers.
2. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.
3. Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko.
4. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov. ... useful to his readers. Scaramouche is fun, if not THAT wonderful - and I like Sabatini. Like the Borges and Pale Fire recommendations, it is telling. :) On another list, The Man Who Loved Children is a difficult book - or can be - emotionally, but it's also brilliant.
Kro ... ... and collecting Nabokov for decades. My favorite 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 Kni ... >82 BoPeep >84 hazelk Nabokov's novel Pale Fire consists of an epic poem of 999 lines by one John Shade, together with annotations to it by a madman who thinks he is an exiled king (or he may really be one) which convey the narrative content of the novel. The line is from the poem, and refers ... ... to figure out who was comparing himself to Frost. I thought it was prose - is it a poem within the text? I haven't read Pale Fire in a long time. ... - Labyrinths might qualify as a life-changing book for me. As for other fiction, I'd nominate Vladimir Nabokov's Pale 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. ... ... desert island, I'd bring along that Worst-case Scenario Survival Handbook. If that wasn't allowed, I'd go for Lolita or Pale Fire, or really anything by Nabokov. I'd also bring along Lisa Carey, because she's my wife.
Thanks - Jessa ... the other great novelists look up to.
Is Nabokov a Russian writer? The answer is probably yes and no. I recommend Pale Fire, arguably even better than Lolita. If you didn't guess already, I forgot to mention that Pale Fire was correct.
Pale Fire by Nabokov?
Looking through my own library, I'm struck by how many covers I don't like (e.g. Pale Fire, great book, awful cover). But my favorites are: Black Hole, Blood Music (the first user-provided cover), The Wolves in The Walls, Sarah Canary (the user-provided cover), Ice Haven, Women, Mothe ... ... is a thread for discussing published hypertexts and books that seem to have hypertextual qualities (you know the drill: Pale Fire, Dictionary of the Khazars, Hopscotch, etc.). If anyone has some favorites or some new discoveries for either category, feel free to post them here. ... hear you say that Pnin is your favorite; I'm new to Nabokov, and adored Lolita (one of me all time favorite books) and Pale Fire. Seems I have more greatness waiting for me... I'd have to say that Pale Fire is the greatest of his works that I've read so far, which include Lolita and his Lectures on Russian Literature. I'm greatly looking forward to reading more; he's a brilliant author. ... followed closely by 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 ...
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