Search results

Oh, forgot to comment on the next choice... Um, I don't have Harlequins, but that gives me an excuse to go back to Amazon (oh dear). Or actually, I think my uni library has it... Have Despair and Pale Fire and Invitation to a Beheading... And need to get Laughter in the Dark, you've all...

I agree. I bought this at the train station a couple of weeks ago when I went to London on the spur-of-the-moment and didn't have a book or even any music to listen to... read probably the same amount of pages and hated it so much I bought a different book for the return journey.

Still, you are fantastic! I hope whatever it is that is keeping you in your real life is positive and nothing serious, and we all look forward to your return. :)

I couldn't resist reading that spoiler, and er... yikes! :eek:

Do you know, I have spent a long time trying to figure out what was happening, but I think you got it! Naughty, naughty Amazon! :D

Only in a Nabokov thread could these things come up... Thanks for the wonderful Lulu link, and the extra information on the "Elemental female". Will remember to come back and comment... Harlequins next, oui? Yay!

I'm waiting to be convinced! Heard that it's fantastic by one or two members but need more, I'm afraid, since it's so different. Just kidding, have been meaning to buy it but everytime I go to Amazon I get sidetracked and end up buying too many other things. Angerball, I think, has read...

No. I couldn't. :D I'm dead? Nooooo!! But I died in number three. :confused: Just kidding, thanks direstraits, you have a talent for this! Well yay! Pictures too? Oh yay again! :D

I'll third Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. Just bought it the other day on the spur of the moment, so will be nice to actually read a purchase sometime in the same year.

Here's my most unhelpful post of the day. I've got a book of short stories, called The Penguin Book of the City. I can't seem to find it though (which is why it's an unhelpful post, as well as being four months too late to help the OP) and even searching Amazon for the exact title doesn't...

How old is this thread? :confused: Anyway, thanks Flower, you just reminded me (although I only read it last night, must be the memory thing) about the Humpty Dumpty thing in New York Trilogy.

Oh, I'm glad it's not just me! But how could anyone not like Nabokov? That would be the true puzzle. :confused: ;)

Only slightly updated... Never Mind the Harlequins! - Vladimir Nabokov An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood Double Fault - Lionel Shriver Poet in New York - Federico Garcia Lorca The Cider House Rules - John Irving

Ooh yay! Have read more now, finished the first part, and wow! It's tremendously weird! Never thought I would need to reread anything other than our Nabokov's, but I will.

Am I the only person who does not have a clue what these books with games and dice are, at all? I've vaguely heard of Goosebumps but have no idea what they involved, only that the school library stocked them. I read classics as a teen / preteen (no, really!). Okay, and Sweet Valley High, and...

It's great! Verra (as you say, lol) weird though. Very Nabokovian, actually. Puzzling! :D

Thanks everyone. :)

Huh? :confused: Huh? :confused: Aww, great review ABC! Sounds an educational read. Great "friend" too. ;)

Kind Hearts and Gentle Monsters - Laurence Yep.

In April, 24 bookandreader members read 138 books, 133 of them unique titles by 108 authors. Popular books were: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) by J.K. Rowling The Plot Against America by Philip Roth A Short History of Nearly...