Two Good Reasons

Malignd malignd at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 20 11:58:34 CST 2003


<<Chocolate and Vanilla, I guess.

[Ada} is full of beautifully crafted word play, which
is fine, but not enough to sustain the story.>>

Ada's a tough one.  I'm not as enamoured of it as I am
of Pale Fire or Lolita, although it's my wife's
favorite of Nabokov's novels.  (It's also the
favorite, I happen to know, of the wonderful Mary
Zimmerman, who directed Metamorphoses and is a great
lover/maker of story.)

   

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