Nabokov

[Keith Davis]

Just came home from the bookstore with a copy of The Satanic Verses...

Bekah, I think you were the first one who recommended Will Patton's
readings of James Lee Burke. I'm already on my second one, and you are
right on. Great stuff!

On another topic, which might be too obscure, I recently saw, on a book
jacket, a quote by Saul Bellow, something like, "so-and-so is the worst
thing to ever happen to American literature...". Any idea who he's talking
about? Maybe Henry Miller? I can't remember, and it's become one of those
things I can't get out of my mind.

On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
>
> Nabokov is so excellent -  I read  Lolita twice but Pale Fire three times
> - the last time after or with Brian Boyd’s incredible analysis and
> rethinking.    Sometimes I wait awhile before a reread,  other times no.
> With Rushdie’s Satanic Verses I finished the book, turned it straight over
> and started in again - same sitting.
>
> Mason & Dixon is in my top two of Pynchon’s oeuvre - Against the Day is
> numero uno (just my o, folks),   M&D is second.  My intro to PYnchon was
> Vineland so it will always have a special place in my heart.
>
> Speaking of finally getting to stuff - I’m currently reading Riddley
> Walker for the first time (anyone remember that?)  It took some pages for
> this California girl to get into a messed up phonetic Kentish lingo but …
> more pages did it - kinda-sorta.  There are so many differences between
> apocalyptic dystopian fiction of the ‘60s and what we see today - it’s
> nuked out wreckage vs eco- or virus- catastrophe.  Some of the same themes
> though -
>
> Bekah
>
>
>
> > On Dec 14, 2014, at 11:25 AM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > This topic is getting me excited about Nab all over again. Can't wait to
> finish The Peripheral so I can start on Ada. Super excited! And I still
> haven't completed the Pynchon oeuvre either; missing V, Vineland, and Mason
> & Dixon but I will get to them in time, hopefully. Most interested in M&D
> since it seems to be the least talked about here or anywhere for some
> reason. It makes me curious. Goldarn holiday is forcing me to put reading
> on the back burner though unfortunately.
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Simon Bryquer <sbryquer at nyc.rr.com>
> wrote:
> > CORRECTION - Sebastian Knight was 1st published in 1941
> >
> > sb
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Bryquer" <sbryquer at nyc.rr.com>
> > To: "Mark Kohut" <mark.kohut at gmail.com>; "Perry Noid" <
> coolwithdoc at gmail.com>
> > Cc: "Keith Davis" <kbob42 at gmail.com>; "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2014 2:07 PM
> > Subject: Re: Nabokov
> >
> >
> >
> > The Real Life of Sebastian Knight  was written in 1939 and published in
> 1949 -- are you saying V (published in 1963)influenced  The Real Life of
> Sebastian Knight ?
> >
> > Simon Bryquer
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Kohut" <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> > To: "Perry Noid" <coolwithdoc at gmail.com>
> > Cc: "Keith Davis" <kbob42 at gmail.com>; "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2014 1:43 PM
> > Subject: Re: Nabokov
> >
> >
> > I might second but I believe in some bit of time passing (usually)
> > between reads...so I say listen to  JEREMY IRONS read Lolita to
> > ya....PNIN is fun and The Real Life of Sebastian Knight had V.
> > influence....(you'll see)......Despair, the chess one is good on the
> > paranoia of over patterning....and a consequence....then reread PALE
> > FIRE which you would have read and Speak, Memory is another
> > essential....
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Ooh! Well if I can make a suggestion; read Lolita again, then read pale
> fire
> > twice in a row. In my very green and humble opinion, Nabokov begs to be
> > double-dipped. Last one I read was Speak, Memory but Ada, or Ardour is
> > allegedly the one I should read next according to my friend's father the
> > English professor.
> >
> > On Dec 14, 2014 9:44 AM, "Keith Davis" <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Just finished reading "Lolita" for the first time. What a great  read!
> > Don't know why it took so long to get to it, other than to look around at
> > the stacks of as yet unread books lying around waiting to be
> > "deflowered"....!
> >
> > Someone was recently recommending "Pale Fire". Any other particular
> > recommendations?
> >
> >
> >
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