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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
studying literature will kill your love of reading, i'm afraid.
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A bad teacher might. Otherwise, a total lie.
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Originally Posted by gmku
Yes, I agree. I think John Updike in a review says that Nabokov writes the way all writers of English prose should write--ecstatically. It is pretty amazing what he does with the English language, regardless of his country of origin--but even more amazing considering he grew up as a native Russian speaker. The man was simply brilliant.
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Fess up. Did you actually read the review, or are you quoting the fucking blurb on the back of every Vintage edition of Nabokov?
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Originally Posted by demonrail666
I think that, alongside Conrad, he's, at least in terms of his style, one of the greatest writers of the last century. Interestingly, I think both he and Conrad were writing in what was their second language. Makes them all the more incredible.
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If I said, "It seems to me that only 100 people ever saw Velvet Underground, but each one started a band," I hope someone would call me on it. Well, I'm calling you on this. This is not your idea. Admit it. Paraphrasing someone else's idea doesn't make it your own.
re:Middlemarch
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Originally Posted by Glice
Like a great many books of that ilk, it's utter bilge. If this was a thread of 'books you've read and wish you hadn't' I'd have that in there, along with THREE fucking Milan Kundera books, all guffer than oceans of guff.
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Well, I loved it, although a lot of people agree with Glice. Eliot's great; maybe Silas Marner would be an ideal place to test her waters.