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Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita

Breaca said:
Oh you guys:eek: No apologies needed. I have loved each and every posting on this amazing thread. Nobody has scared me off. I'm made of tuff stuff ya know. I get it from my mother's side - irish and redheaded to boot. She's all of 5 feet but she's one tough cookie. Cookie being an important word here as she's kinda sweet too.

So quit the apologising, nothing to apologise for. My lonesome mutterings were more the 'aw shucks, I missed everyone again'. Wordy threads.... er this is a book site and yep me looove words. So word away - that's what has made this thread so marvelous darlings, absolute genious, pure magic.... ya getting the message yet:p
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I'm here, breaca! (And yes, the time shown is California time.) So, tell me, what's the dastard currently up to in the book you're reading? :rolleyes:
 
Hi StillILearn, actually doing a spot of light reading. Thought I'd give the old grey matter a reprieve after reading Lolita;) Currently have nose between pages of Trace by Ms Cornwell. But our southern belle and fiesty Ms P, the word meister (sp?) Mr P and the gracious and well versed Ms SIL are determined not to give the brain cells much respite as I've now added Reading Lo in Tehran to my bookshelves and I soon hope to have my sticky fingers (oops sorry missed abit from my earlier strudel) on a copy of The Enchanter. Mmm I wonder if all this literary knowledge will lead me on to nirvana:rolleyes: (The hills of Tuscany would suit me better).

Er, Pontalba you up yet!!
 
Oops, lonely spotlight again:p I know, I cannot help myself. What can I say, I'm a gal with lots of time on my hands. Now, where was I, ah yes the pages of....
 
Breaca said:
Hi StillILearn, actually doing a spot of light reading. Thought I'd give the old grey matter a reprieve after reading Lolita;) Currently have nose between pages of Trace by Ms Cornwell. But our southern belle and fiesty Ms P, the word meister (sp?) Mr P and the gracious and well versed Ms SIL are determined not to give the brain cells much respite as I've now added Reading Lo in Tehran to my bookshelves and I soon hope to have my sticky fingers (oops sorry missed abit from my earlier strudel) on a copy of The Enchanter. Mmm I wonder if all this literary knowledge will lead me on to nirvana:rolleyes: (The hills of Tuscany would suit me better).

Er, Pontalba you up yet!!
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Had to go start a pot of coffee so I could spell. :rolleyes:

Heavens, Breaca! Your brain cells will really be getting a workout with all that you're reading at once! I used to be a Patricia Cornwell fan, but something happened, either to her or to me, I can't tell. I do have her book about Jack the Ripper on my half-read pile, but I can see that it's going to have to wait until I've finished with my current obsession. I no longer even know what Nabokovian lore is winging its way to me from amazon.com. (I may have ordered some books in my dreams, since they never arrived.) Reading Lo in Tehran is only going to make you want to read twelve other books, but hey! that's what libraries are for, right? :)
 
Breaca,
Hi, he says, to the solid wall of red lights looking like tail lights on a California Freeway.
Glad to see you have enlisted for The Enchanter campaign and also the, er other book.
I'm here, one eye on the screen and one eye out the window looking for the USPS truck. Just back from Borders and coffee, after doing some serious browsing. Light reading you want? Light reading is what's on the back covers of the Nabokov books. :)

I read one back cover the other day that said it was about two men and a girl who wanted to become a movie star. And that when the one man introduced her to the other (the jerk!) he lost her to him. Sound familiiar? No, not Lolita. Guess again, any number of times, until you get to "Laughter in the Dark." So, despite my resolve to not increase the height of my unread pile, it has ended up here at home with me. I don't know how that happened. :rolleyes:

I'm beginning to think that Nabokov does triangles. But then again what else is there interesting in literature? He asks innocently. Orgies? :) Banquets of Roman gods? Same thing. :)

/drumming fingers/ Waiting for light to turn green,
Peder
 
Peder said:
Breaca,
Hi, he says, to the solid wall of red lights looking like tail lights on a California Freeway.
Glad to see you have enlisted for The Enchanter campaign and also the, er other book.

I read one back cover the other day that said it was about two men and a girl who wanted to become a movie star. And that when the one man introduced her to the other (the jerk!) he lost her to him. Sound familiiar? No, not Lolita. Guess again, any number of times, until you get to "Laughter in the Dark." So, despite my resolve to not increase the height of my unread pile, it has ended up here at home with me. I don't know how that happened. :rolleyes:


/drumming fingers/ Waiting for light to turn green,
Peder
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I thought you were simply snoozin' this mornin, Peder. Laughter in the Dark, huh? Sounds familiar, but ... okay, okay I'll amazon it. I'm not going to buy it, mind you -- just look.

At least when we end up in the Poor House we'll be able to exchange books. We'll get Tuffy a book-sized backpack.
 
Just set the tea to steep, the sun is up (!!),and all rights with the world.

Now as far as The Two Lolitas, I really think that it'll end up to be one of those things that can be either way. Evidently VN while in Berlin didn't mix that much with Germans at least not in a real social way.
He let it be understood that, cocooning himself in the Russian exile community for fear of losing his mother tongue, he scarcely spoke any German and read no German books.
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But thats not what he said when he applied for a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1947. From what is said, I strongly suspect that since he didn't like Germans and Germany, he denied it to even himself, as to how much he understood.

At least thats what I think so far.:rolleyes:

Peder! Is that an UPS or USPS truck I see in the distance.........

:p

Hi Breaca I have some of the Cornwell, including the Jack the Ripper one SIL, in the TBR stack. I've read some of them, but not in order, which makes a difference I find. But I do think that Cornwell has become progressively more....visual....and graphic in her descriptions. Which I do not care for.

Ruby I am so glad that you actually enjoyed the 'spoilers'!!
 
StillILearn said:
I thought you were simply snoozin' this mornin, Peder. Laughter in the Dark, huh? Sounds familiar, but ... okay, okay I'll amazon it. I'm not going to buy it, mind you -- just look.

At least when we end up in the Poor House we'll be able to exchange books. We'll get Tuffy a book-sized backpack.
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Still,
Watch out for those buttons when you're there. Its not like if you push 'em you're winning on the slots at Vegas.
Yes, Laughter in the Dark. All of a sudden the title makes sense, if it has to do with movies somehow. And then I begin to wonder if it was a result of his contact with the movie industry in making Lolita. Waste not a scrap of experience, ya know. How like Nabokov that would be, if so.
So I wonder who the girl is! :D
Peder
 
pontalba said:
Just set the tea to steep, the sun is up (!!),and all rights with the world.

Now as far as The Two Lolitas, I really think that it'll end up to be one of those things that can be either way. Evidently VN while in Berlin didn't mix that much with Germans at least not in a real social way. But thats not what he said when he applied for a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1947. From what is said, I strongly suspect that since he didn't like Germans and Germany, he denied it to even himself, as to how much he understood.
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He did get in some pretty sly digs at those anti-Semites. :)



Hi Breaca I have some of the Cornwell, including the Jack the Ripper one SIL, in the TBR stack. I've read some of them, but not in order, which makes a difference I find. But I do think that Cornwell has become progressively more....visual....and graphic in her descriptions. Which I do not care for.

Ruby I am so glad that you actually enjoyed the 'spoilers'!!
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I do believe that ruby and Breaca have gone back to bed! :D
 
StillILearn said:
We'll get Tuffy a book-sized backpack.
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When I told Tuffy of her new job description....I got the green-eyed stare. You know the one that says, Surely you jest. I am a cat. That is my job description! So I suppose we will have to talk Zazu (my big blonde, brown eyed gal, er dog). She loves to please.:D

Now for the tea, it has finally steeped enough. And peanutbutter......which btw, is the other essential to be brought on safari.
 
StillILearn said:
Instead of collectively going to the Poor House, let's get rich instead! :)

http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=4269

All we'll need is a damned fine editor. :D
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Still,
You're the one to do it!
Sharpen that pencil and start typing, or whatever the metaphor is these days.

Pontalba,
Actually I was being visual when I said one eye out the window. Actually it's more like one ear, because I can recognize the engine noise of the truck. :eek:
And I sure hope it comes.

It's going to be hard to deny that both titles say "Lolita," and that there seems to be a 'lodger' in both stories, and a marriage strategy, among the seemingly non-chance coincidences.

i've heard of software that compares two texts to determine their similarity of style, language, vocabulary etc. I wonder what it would say about the two stories. And just while sort of on that (off) topic. I once read a novel that had been 'written' by computer using as input much of the writing and plot styles, and whatever, from the Jaqueline Susann's (?) published works. With only 'minimal' intervention by a human. :rolleyes: Wasn't very bad at all, for a computer. Came out quite like Valley of the Dolls. Had the unmistakable flavor!

Back to drumming fingers,
Peder
 
StillILearn said:
I do believe that ruby and Breaca have gone back to bed! :D
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Nah, just raiding the kitchen. Trouble is nothing took my fancy so I ended up eating chocolate instead:D And then family called me away to go fishing;)
 
Breaca said:
Nah, just raiding the kitchen. Trouble is nothing took my fancy so I ended up eating chocolate instead:D And then family called me away to go fishing;)
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Breaca,
Fishing sounds good. Catch anything?
Just got back here myself after late lunch/coffee and still no book. But it's worth one more check, down to the mailboxes and back up.
Be back in a bit,
Peder
 
StillILearn said:
I do believe that ruby and Breaca have gone back to bed! :D
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Nah, just raiding the kitchen. Trouble is nothing took my fancy so I ended up eating chocolate instead:D And then family called me away to go fishing;)
 
People of Earth......this is Earth isn't it?, I get so confused Take me to your Leader.....thats the one with all the chocolate...

Michael Rennie.....The Day the Earth Stood Still /sigh/

Sorry Peder, you were saying something about Houston?:confused: :p :D
 
pontalba said:
People of Earth......this is Earth isn't it?, I get so confused Take me to your Leader.....thats the one with all the chocolate...

Michael Rennie.....The Day the Earth Stood Still /sigh/

Sorry Peder, you were saying something about Houston?:confused: :p :D
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Pontalba,
Breaca has a double post she may not know about.
That happens to me when TBF/my machine is giving me conniptions.
Peder
 
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