Nabokov

[Keith Davis]

Well, that didn't take long. It's on the back of Leslie Fiedler's The Devil
Gets His Due...

On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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