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This was the first book by Vladimir Nabokov that I had read, and I can definitely see why some people call it his magnum opus. There is a lot of thought put into this book.
The story itself is surprisingly straightforward. It's the language that Nabokov puts a lot of care into, and those add so much detail to the story.
There is definitely a lot that I missed while reading this book. Admittedly I'm not very patient when reading books from another time so some of the writing did fly over my head. And while I did appreciate the annotations provided by Ada Online, annotations were provided only up until part way through Part 2, and often contained spoilers. So I guess this is just a warning that my write up for this book is not going to do the book justice at all. There a lot of stuff that I definitely missed and that says more about me as a reader than this book lol.
I still think this was a fascinating book. I wouldn't recommend it to everybody because of the incest warning and because the writing is a bit dense, but I think those who like dense literature would get a lot out of this book.
Spoilers.
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The story itself is surprisingly straightforward. It's the language that Nabokov puts a lot of care into, and those add so much detail to the story.
There is definitely a lot that I missed while reading this book. Admittedly I'm not very patient when reading books from another time so some of the writing did fly over my head. And while I did appreciate the annotations provided by Ada Online, annotations were provided only up until part way through Part 2, and often contained spoilers. So I guess this is just a warning that my write up for this book is not going to do the book justice at all. There a lot of stuff that I definitely missed and that says more about me as a reader than this book lol.
I still think this was a fascinating book. I wouldn't recommend it to everybody because of the incest warning and because the writing is a bit dense, but I think those who like dense literature would get a lot out of this book.
Spoilers.
( Read more... )
