-
Welcome
to BookAndReader! We LOVE books and hope you'll join us in sharing your favorites and experiences along with your love of reading with our community. Registering for our site is free and easy, just CLICK HERE!
Already a member and forgot your password? Click here.
Vladimir Nabokov
- Thread starter Peder
- Start date
Peder
Well-Known Member
Ms.Ms. said:
Zow! At a price like that, definitely on-line!
The novels over here tend to run about $13-$14 in the store (Borders) but, even at that, on-line purchase is attractive. Not to mention the possibility of used purchases for pricier items, e.g Boyd's biography, in nearly unused condition..
Peder
pontalba
Well-Known Member
Ms. I've found that Amazon is the cheapest. But I wonder if there is something like Powells.com over there? They have really good 2nd hand hardbacks available. I've bought KQKand Laughter in the Dark in hardback there at much cheaper than anywhere else. But some are outrageous. For example of a hardback of "Lolita" can run into hundreds of dollars. No way. 
Peder
Well-Known Member
steffee
Active Member
Peder, all: a huge hello to my fellow Nabokovaholics! I have been extremely busy just lately with real life issues (exams, housemate troubles, internet problems) but I have Sebastian Knight waiting for me to start; and I am part-way through Glory still. And I will return to them after my first exam is out of the way (on Wednesday)... I'll look forward to discussing them both with you all.Peder said:Steffee, Breaca: Any chance for Sebastian Knight?
Meanwhile, Glory is still open for business.
Peder
Great quotes, Pontalba, they definitely make you want to read on. I take it he isn't, in fact, dead?
Great discussion everyone, and a hello to Ms. - I hope you're enjoying the Nabokov fun here.
steffee
Active Member
LOL Pontalba, you're very right there! I am so tempted to go and start Sebastian Knight right this minute! But since I know that we won't find out until the end, I will resist the urge for just four more sleeps...pontalba said:STEFFEE!!! Great to see ya back here at Camp Nabokov. LOL
Now as to the life and or death of certain characters, well now ya never know until the end with our VN do ya?
And sometimes even then I wonder.....
Maybe.
Camp Nabokov! I like it.
Peder
Well-Known Member
HUGE welcome back Steffee!
So wonderful to hear your voice, and the news that Glory and Sebastian Knight are in your thoughts! Is he dead? Who? What?!
Just read my tagline below,
And we'll be countin' sheep with ya' for four nights
Welcome, welcome back! /big hugs/
Peder
So wonderful to hear your voice, and the news that Glory and Sebastian Knight are in your thoughts! Is he dead? Who? What?!
Just read my tagline below,
And we'll be countin' sheep with ya' for four nights
Welcome, welcome back! /big hugs/
Peder
pontalba
Well-Known Member
VN The Life and Art of Vladimir Nabokov by Andrew Field
I was just mucking about in Field's bio. Brave indeed to write this during VN's life. I have to say that it seems that Field is more interested in resurrecting old scandals than anything else.
No wonder Nabokov was furious with him.
I don't even know if I will finish it or not. Probably.....eventually. Even post comments if I find some. I know I'd posted a bit of it before, but now I'm not sure I want to anymore.
I was just mucking about in Field's bio. Brave indeed to write this during VN's life. I have to say that it seems that Field is more interested in resurrecting old scandals than anything else.
No wonder Nabokov was furious with him.
I don't even know if I will finish it or not. Probably.....eventually. Even post comments if I find some. I know I'd posted a bit of it before, but now I'm not sure I want to anymore.
Peder
Well-Known Member
Strathern's, Nabokov in 90 Minutes /gasp/ gives paragraph summaries of both of Boyd's volumes and Field's 2nd edition, mentioning "skeleton's in the closet" in Field and VN's wrath with him, although also saying Field was "highly complimentary." (p115--116)pontalba said:
That sounds somewhat different from what you've read?
Just asking,
Peder
pontalba
Well-Known Member
Maybe it was in 90 Minutes I read of VN's dislike of Field's bio. Basically in the first 7 or 8 pages Field claims that VN's great-grandmother slept with her (who was to be) future son-in-law, one Dmitri Nabokov. That the daughter was basically forced into marrying Dmitri.....
Oh, and that VN's father was the illegitimate son of Czar Alexander II, which was proven by timeline to be impossible. Field admits it but has to add it in for shock sake. grrrrr.
Bloody Soap Opera, and a bad one at that.
Oh, and that VN's father was the illegitimate son of Czar Alexander II, which was proven by timeline to be impossible. Field admits it but has to add it in for shock sake. grrrrr.
Bloody Soap Opera, and a bad one at that.
steffee
Active Member
Awww, bless you Peder.Peder said:HUGE welcome back Steffee!
So wonderful to hear your voice, and the news that Glory and Sebastian Knight are in your thoughts! Is he dead? Who? What?!
Just read my tagline below,
And we'll be countin' sheep with ya' for four nights
Welcome, welcome back! /big hugs/
Peder
I have to admit to having a quick preview at Sebastian Knight last night, in between periods of intense revision, of course. The tagline is catching my eye! It would be quicker to just read the book, than to search this site (and others) for hints, I reckon. But where's the fun in that?
And I got the days wrong, it's only two days now. Eeek, eek. I will be back on Wednesday.
pontalba
Well-Known Member
steffee said:Awww, bless you Peder.
I have to admit to having a quick preview at Sebastian Knight last night, in between periods of intense revision, of course. The tagline is catching my eye! It would be quicker to just read the book, than to search this site (and others) for hints, I reckon. But where's the fun in that?
And I got the days wrong, it's only two days now. Eeek, eek. I will be back on Wednesday.
Just inbetween huh? Yes, I know how that is, I read inbetween housework etc. More like a little housework inbetween reading.
Wednesday it is then.