gaddis

[Michael Richard]

Gaddis is the second best, although _The Recognitions_ is my favorite
book overall.  I've been putting off reading _Ada_ until I have read
all the books mentioned on the first two pages.  I figure Nabakov is
laughing at me for this, and seeing this mention, I started it again
last night.  Oops! haven't read all of Tolstoy yet, or many other
clear antecedents, one more Dostoevsky, so I started _The Brothers
Karamazov_ this morning.  Just in time for the Oregon Country Fair
and the incredible juggling clan - hope they are there this year...



On Mon, 21 May 2007, David Morris wrote:

> And I was also disappointed by Ada, although I generally love Nabakov.
>  I do think that Ada is actually a puzzle-text, that the surface story
> (diary) is only the surface of a very complex puzzle (much like the
> puzzle of Pale Fire, written just before Ada).  And somewhere central
> to the puzzle is the crazy/dead mother and her visions of the "Terrors
> of Terra."  Terra being the alternate universe to the one of the book.
>  The problem is, Nabakov was so ingenious with this puzzle that no one
> has been able to scratch its surface.
> 
> David Morris
> 
> On 5/19/07, Keith <keithsz at mac.com> wrote:
> > The Recognitions completely blew me away. Only Gravity's Rainbow matches the joy that it brought/brings me. Oh, and Ada, by Nabokov.
>