Re: Lolita's Story To Be Printed in US

Jim Rovira (jrovira@juno.com)
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 06:52:26 -0400 

nah, what you need to understand is that what I wrote in my last post
about Nabokov is exactly that I've thought since I first finished reading
the book :)

Sometimes I've emphasized the negative in my outlook of Lolita, sometimes
the positive, but they've both always been there... :)

Jim

On Fri, 18 Jun 1999 20:09:41 +1000 Camille Scaysbrook
<verona_beach@geocities.com> writes:
>Jim - I am truly surprised, I thought you'd be panning Nabokov til the
>nymphets came home (: I'm so glad that you saw the point of all my 
>rantings
>eventually. May I gently nudge you in the direction of `Pale Fire'? 
>I'm
>sure you'd enjoy it, or at very least tender your Ultimate Verdict on
>Nabokov.
>
>P.S. If you liked Chekov try some Katherine Mansfield. Some of it is 
>very
>good but some of it is magnificent.
>
>Camille
>verona_beach@geocities.com
>@ THE ARTS HOLE http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
>@ THE INVERTED FOREST http://www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest
>
>> 
>> Paul...
>> 
>> I share your praise of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Chekov (I've never 
>been
>> able to make it through a Turgenev book in the past), and I have 
>been a
>> bit critical of Lolita the book myself, but after forcing my way 
>through
>> the whole thing and actually making it to the end it really nailed 
>me. 
>> The end made the book for me.  
>> 
>> I'm reserving judgment on the Lolita rip-off.  Similar ripoffs have 
>been
>> done before with some success (I've heard good things about John
>> Gardner's Grendel, and a stage version of such a rip off would be
>> Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, which was wonderful).
>> 
>> Anyway, I'm willing to pick the thing up and see if the first 20 
>pages or
>> so draw me in.  But that's only because the original seemed to have 
>some
>> merit with me.
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
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