. NON BOOK CLUB RELATED ONLY
As you well know, we are reading the first 7 chapters of The Master and Margarita in our recently created book club.
However the Friday threads are for non book club readings only, we’ll reserve “The Master and Margarita” discussions for Sundays.
I finished Lolita earlier this week. 
. I’m glad both of them died, after finishing I went back to the prologue to realize Dolores was “Mrs Schiller” who died at childbirth 
This book had a hard to swallow plot, and Nobokov managed to write an engaging story with it, he said he based Humbert Humbert on Lewis Carroll, probably because of his writing style but the funny thing is Carroll was probably a closeted 
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But I have to say that among Nabokov’s works, I preferred “Pale Fire” to “Lolita”.
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I aint touching lolita because of the association, but the constant praise he gets makes me contemplative of pale fire. Sell me on it.
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The libertarian in Lolita is pretty much a psychopath, I never thought of him as a sympathetic character at all. Pale Fire is basically about a schizo stalker writing a “commentary” on a dead poet’s poem. He was the poet’s Neighbor and was obsessed with him and he tells his own bullshit story throughout the commentary. The Poem is part of the novel as well.
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