NP Ada

[David Morris]

A matter of taste, I guess.  I think N was trying to be too
clever/literary/?  Van & Ada were uber-characters, too rich, clever,
beautiful, etc, and rather cold-hearted and self-absorbed at that.
Their (oooo!) incestuous affair wasn't enough to hold my interest.
The alternative Victorianesqe world was slightly amusing.

Because of the obvious virtuosity of Nabokov's writing, but (what I
felt was) the paucity of real interest in the narrator's life-story, I
was left convinced that, a la Pale Fire, there must be a
below-the-surface story, and I felt it must reside in the parallel
world of Terra, which makes brief appearances in the book, and is
integral with the madness/suicide of Van's mother, also only lightly
touched upon...

Beating a dead horse,
David Morris

On 6/15/07, mikebailey at speakeasy.net <mikebailey at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> >
> > (who gives a damn about these self-indulgent rich kids and their incestuous affair?)
>
> I kinda did...
> like that early scene where Ada is like, loading up her sensory memory chest according to strict rules she has...mmm, savory
>