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Oops, the author is Robert Louis Stevenson, rather. :rolleyes:

Because obviously some members aren't happy (and evidently these members do care how the mods run the place, as should everyone). Unhappy members will soon find somewhere else to go. Why are you participating in a "very stupid discussion" in your opinion? Besides which, this thread wasn't...

Irrelevant but I had to look up otiose (and I love it, I must use it, and often). I remember first beginning with Nabokov and I needed a dictionary to hand for at least ten words on every page, but it's getting easier, unless Lolita is the most thick with grandiose vocabulary? Aside from Ada of...

If you mean The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde then the author is Robert Louis Stephenson.

Awww if it does then feel free. I will be finished by tomorrow or the nextest day, I should think, anyway. Who else do we have reading? Still? Breaca? SFG? Ms.? I will write about Sebastian in Cambridge after rereading it. :rolleyes:

Quints, Shirley... I mean, Pontalba. That's right. :D I was being serious actually, I have some serious catching up to do, Nabokov wise. Upto Chapter 5 now though, yay! :D Edited: forgot the italics.

I buy way too many books. I don't mind parting with them, especially since I don't even open 90% of them, but I buy them rather than borrow from a library. There's too much choice in the library. And I flick between books too much to be satisfied with library copies that need returning and...

Have you two forgotten you have moi, joining in this discussion? ;)

Month! Obviously I meant month. One of those days...

On the Road Again, Katie Melua.

All of his novels? :eek: Oh, Cloud, Castle, Lake - it contains: The Admiralty Spire, Razor, A Russian Beauty, Signs and Symbols, and of course Cloud, Castle, Lake. But Peder, you posted at 2.40pm :confused: ;) Oh really? I'm not sure I can wait now... might have to read the ending NOW! ;)

Hehe. :D Seriously, I will finish it one day. Hehe again. ;) Awww Peder, you are too modest. I will have to keep reading after that, won't I? ;) :D

You can expect nothing less from a bunch of Nabokovophiles! ;)

Wow, what long lists. I'm pretty sure I've only read one book (that I could mention here, anyway) so far this year... Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl by Tracy Quan.

Espionage? :eek: Am I to take it from the last few posts that we don't find out who killed SK? Or is this discussion for the purposes of speculation, for want of a better word? I never did finish Glory... wonder if that's necessary... That would be Nabokov. ;) Oh, of course. But then...

Awww, that's good to know Peder. I'm upto chapter 3 now and off to bed. It's late here. I'll look forward to catching up with our SK (and you all) tomorrow. :D

Yup. Penguin Classics. I'm sure it should say Penguin Modern Classics or whatever they say, as other Nabokov titles do, but it doesn't. Sadly, it's the silver covered one, which I think look tacky. But, oh well... Cover photo by Robert Greshoff.

It was written on the back cover, of course. ;)

Even if...? ;) Oh dear. Only page fifteen I get to before I have to reread already. :D And thanks for telling me who Palchin is, I'll add that in...

Since I have read only little over one chapter, is it okay if we compile a character list: V - narrator and SK's half-brother? Same father? Sebastian Knight - eponymous murder victim and writer Olga Olegovna Orlova - "an egg-like alliteration" and the one whose diary our narrator found...