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>>8973832
Switch pnin and Lolita and it makes more sense.

bump~

>>8973832
nigger wtf

i already did that

ada is not that good desu. of what i've read:

lolita > speak memory > pale fire > pnin > ada > the gift

>>8975674
>ada is not that good desu
u fucking what?

what is ur favorite book?

>>8975679
anna karenina

i think everything beside the wonderfully rendered aristocratic memories is a little weak. all the alternate universe stuff is just pale borgesisms to me. pale fire had much more successful postmodern devices

>>8975711
don't you know that the first page of ada undoes everything about AK?

Anyone else really enjoy Despair? it's like Lolita but with murder instead.

>>8975715
i know what you're referring to but it doesn't change anything

>>8975711
>wonderfully rendered aristocratic memories
You mean 95% of the novel? Either way, it's sure better than a book about some roastie slut who does the world a service after getting jealous about her fuckboy.

>>8975781
it is the vast majority of the novel. but i'd say more like 90%. it's a good novel but speak memory handles the aristocratic memories in a better way imo

page by page it might be his best work but as a total construct i think it's not comparable to the clockwork rhythms of pale fire and lolita

>>8975789
Well yes I was exaggerating, more like 80% actually. Of his other works I've only read Lolita, but that was a long while ago. From what I remember of Lolita it didn't really have a clockwork rhythm, if anything it was jerky. Ada for me has a nice rhythm, starting off slow, with more than three years of Van's life taking up more than half the book, then picking up speed like a locomotive until the crashing conclusion. But that's just me.

Why doesn't /lit/ talk about Look at the Harlequins?