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Dracko
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| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 9:43 pm |
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Have you read Pale Fire or Ada or Ardor?
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Dracko
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| Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 2:19 am |
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| chriservin22 wrote: |
| there is something inherently soulless in Nabokov's work, except for Lolita, and Speak, Memory. |
I...
Jesus...
What the fuck?
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Dracko
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| Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 3:37 pm |
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| Broco wrote: |
| Dracko wrote: |
| chriservin22 wrote: |
| there is something inherently soulless in Nabokov's work, except for Lolita, and Speak, Memory. |
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Jesus...
What the fuck? |
I actually agree with the general thrust of this criticism. Along with his total lack of interest in pacing, it's basically the reason I've lost much of my enthusiasm for Nabokov over the years. Although soulless is not the right word: it's just a lack of warmth, without a thematic framework that gives meaning to coldness (as in, say, J.M. Coetzee or Kafka). Pale Fire and Pnin, among others, I think are somewhat dismal novels for this reason. Unattractive, neurotic men, presented with dispassionate humor. Without a poignant undercurrent, Nabokov's meticulous prose and intricate patterns are little more than a technical exercise.
Strangely, Lolita is one of his novels which suffers least from this problem, yes, despite having a certified sociopath for a narrator. |
So he writes because he enjoys writing. His work is playful and humane. I'm not seeing where the problem lies. Not every character in a work of fiction needs to be one a reader can emphasise or even relate to.
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Dracko
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| Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 11:10 pm |
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| Broco wrote: |
| Yeah. Speaking of Nabokov and suicides, the suicide near the end of Ada falls completely flat, even though (if we believe Boyd anyway) it's supposed to be the centerpiece of the novel. |
I don't see how it does, but I'd sooner intellectualise a character's actions and take them holistically than expect to be hit with an emotional hammer.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 11:18 pm |
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Emotional dickplay is over-rated anyway.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 2:32 am |
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http://fleursdumal.org/ - Collection of Baudelaire's poetry
http://realitystudio.org/ - William S. Burroughs resource
http://bookkake.com/ - Now this is very interesting, and I'm compelled to order their set of books in spite of the price because it's the sort of initiative I approve of
Good books there, too.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 4:46 am |
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Enjoy Banned Book Week with a copy of Ulysses and an Ambushed Trifle.
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| Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 1:54 am |
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Why does The Road remind me of Watership Down so much?
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| Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 12:33 pm |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 10:25 pm |
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Guys, is it true that Thomas Pynchon said that sci-fi was difficult to take seriously on account of death being so ephemeral, with the concepts of cloning, immortality and such?
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| The world is done: J.G. Ballard is dead. |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 12:59 am |
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| Guys, you have no idea how badly this affects me. :( |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 5:35 pm |
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| Needs more Borges. |
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| Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 3:11 am |
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Is there a point to that? Do they get in the way of the reading?
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| Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 2:03 pm |
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| Cocaine Socialist wrote: |
| fuck Martin Amis |
This is a good rule of thumb.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 7:31 am |
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| robotdell wrote: |
| What should I read first? SO MANY CHOICES |
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass
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| Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 2:48 pm |
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Do it, shrug!
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| Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 2:04 pm |
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Why embarrassing?
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| Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 9:47 pm |
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Supervert's new book is out.
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Perversity Think Tank attempts to formulate a philosophical conception of sexual perversion. In this it is the black mirror of one of the most famous texts in the history of philosophy. Plato's Symposium sought to answer a simple question: What is love? Perversity Think Tank begins from an equally simple but darker place: What is perversity?
Necrophilia, pedophilia, bestiality, feederism, voyeurism, fetishism — how is it possible to abstract a single category of sexual behavior from so many unusual and often sordid proclivities? What does a flasher or a groper have in common with, say, the willing "victim" who undertook with a cannibal to cook and eat his own penis? |
Available as a free e-book.
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| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 3:21 pm |
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:(
If you want a good laugh, though...
| Tucker Stone wrote: |
| Some professional book blogger was telling me that the reason the Larsson trilogy is so popular--and yes, that's the original definition of popular, the one you're only supposed to pull out for Harry Potter and Twilight level shit--was because the author was dead. I disagreed: the reason these books are sorely in need of meat cleaver editing is because the author is dead. |
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David Britton.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 2:57 pm |
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Frank Miller designed a cover for it.
It would be pretty amazing if he ever felt like trying to adapt it.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 2:15 am |
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Good choice.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 8:08 pm |
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| Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 4:48 pm |
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I was supposed to be reading Perdido Street Station alongside a friend but it just didn't grab me and I'm reading The Soft Machine instead.
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