favorite work by an author

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>>9110379
Fight me

>>9110402
haven't read it yet, looking forward to it

>>9110379
>>9110402
does anyone have that nabokov chart

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>>9110423

o ya

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>>9110409
pretty bad chart though, start with Lolita than read Invitation to a Beheading. After that it doesn't matter, except Ada is the final boss.

>>9110440
that comes as a relief to me ada was an easy read...or at least easy compared to joyce or faulkner or pychon

>>9110404
This is just embarrassing. How can you be such a vanilla. You're not interesting.

>>9110447
Nabokov does not have a difficult prose style, I didn't mean final boss in terms of difficulty, I meant it is the culmination of his formal experimentation and pursuit of "aesthetic bliss".

>>9110440
Is Lolita essential? I have been putting it off since I am under the impression it is 300 pages of 'yeah lets fugg'. I was thinking of getting pale fire but maybe it is best to read lolita first.

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>>9110409
>>9110440
Here's a different chart

>>9110470
>I am under the impression it is 300 pages of 'yeah lets fugg"
Anon, you're retarded. The memes on this board are a joke, this isn't even a slightly erotic novel. It's one of the most brilliant observation on obsession and love in all of literature. If you've put it off, you don't know Nabokov, plain and simple.

>>9110483
>this isn't even a slightly erotic novel.
I guess I fell for the meme, thanks though. I guess I will pick it up in the near future then.

>>9110379
Same as you OP. Nice taste

>>9110500
there was a site that said Lolita was the best book ever written

>>9110440
Anyone have one of these for John Hawkes

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>>9110379

>>9110508
thank u i'm told i taste delicious

>>9110474
I don't like this chart either. How is Laughter in the Dark not part of "Best of Early Work"

IMO this should be the how to into Nabokov order:

>Laughter in the Dark
>Lolita
>Pnin
>Pale Fire
>Ada
>Speak Memory
>If you made it this far you obviously like him, read whatever interests you that's left in his ouvre

author: God

>best
Hindu Literature

>second best
Gnosticism

>worst
the Old Testament

>Overrated
the New Testament

>Underrated
The Quran

King Lear

>>9110407
I haven't read yours yet either but I've heard great things friend.

>>9110560
And so castles made of sand...

>>9110470

Ada has a lot more yeah let's fugg than Lolita does.

>>9110573
Shit tier taste. Ot is patrician

>>9110535
Making the chart for you, anon.

>>9110474
How are Mary and the Luzhin Defense?
I hardly ever see them mentioned here, and am interested.

>>9112074
tru. i would argue it's the sexiest novel ever written

>>9113945
Would you?