Two Good Reasons

[David Morris]

Having recentlt finished Nabokov's Ada, I can honestly say I understand some of
Mr. Romero's sentiment re. Nabokov and Borges (at least what I take to be his
sentiment).  They are both puzzle makers.  Clever, but not necesarily
satasfying.  When I read Borges I am always reminded of old Twilight Zone
episodes, sometimes not a good thing.  I found Ada a souless book.  I'm sure
that, like Pale Fire, it is not meant to be taken at face value, that the whole
book is a "find out the truth that the narrator's not telling you" puzzle,
because the story itself just makes me not care.  With a short book like Pale
Fire, one can invest multiple readings without too much effort, but Ada is very
long, and I'm not willing to put in that kind of effort.

A contrast to this would be Gravity's Rainbow, which I enjoyed reading twice
before joining this list and getting into it deeper with the GRGR way back
then.

David Morris

--- Richard Romeo <romeocheeseburger at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> p.s. I find as I grow gray, I find Borges and his ilk rather dull, too.
> oops I did it again 
> 
> --- s~Z <keithsz at concentric.net> wrote:> > 
> > He finds Nabokov and the current King Crimson dullsville.

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