This book was good.
This book was good
Cooper Edwards
Jeremiah Nguyen
Ryder Sanders
very good, even
Liam Campbell
>protagonist is a cuck
James Smith
> pretending anyone reads his Russian period works
Anyway, it's one of the best books to nurture disdain for transitory hubbub.
Bentley Wright
>protagonist is a cuck
Gabriel Murphy
What was good about it? I thought it was flat, all chapters doing the same thing, again and again.
And all for a contrived alegory of some metaphysical concept.
Lucas Kelly
>A Novel by the author of Lolita
This is so gay and insulting to put on the cover of an established great. Fucking philistine capitalist retards, shut the fuck up.
Evan Howard
Author still lurking here?
Jaxson Cooper
It's the first book of Nabokov's that I've read. Honestly, I wrote him off because of Lolita but this makes me want to read more of his stuff.
It's a metaphor for how we all get cucked by death eventually dweebshit.
Brandon Cooper
this
Jonathan Howard
I had the feeling that Nabokov did Kafka but better in this one. But I hate Kafka so I might be a bad judge;
Justin Gomez
>Trying to imitate Dostoevskys insights of false execution
Nabokov is such a pathetic worm
Ryan Rivera
I did the same thing. Wrote the nab off, never read any of his books.
Then one day, I found the nab meme format. I still never read his books but I enjoy the meme and the fake character I envision Nabokov to be in my mind. I've started reading his strong opinions though.
Nathan Parker
Bentley Roberts
Vladimir, Nabokov
A flustered troubadour who nobody listened to. His baroque style invokes he futility of l’art pour art. Lolita: liked it, cagey, cunning. Invitation to a Beheading: dollar store Kafka imitation. Best burnt while roasting marshmallows.
Brandon James
Has he written anything that wasn't good?
Everything I've read so far as been great.
>cunning
heh
Cooper Ortiz
Great prose, fun to read as a sort of romp in a dream with a very frustrated and sad dreamer. It was pretty repetitive looking back but it's still short enough to read in a couple days so that didn't bother me much.
When I was curious about whether "gnostical turpitude" was nonsense or a riddle, I read a theory that it means "knowledge of good and evil," i.e. Cincinnatus was being executed for original sin. I like that interpretation.
John White
im waiting for +1 To A Behaeading
Anthony Davis
>tfw nobody invited you to the beheading
Wyatt Cox
You seem to believe it's mere fantasy, don't you?
Cameron Cooper
Why is he so meme worthy?
Jaxon Long
Dawg it's probably a first edition, or a first English edition right after he blew up but before it's was generally acknowledged as an all-timer