. 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 just read blood meridian which i read about a decade ago, holds up
if youre a fan of nabokov his "lectures on literature" are worth checking out, hes mostly spot on, in my opinion, and i agree with everything he says except hes way more explicitly misogynistic to women authors than i am, its funny the lectures were at a womens college tho, mans telling a sea of women faces that women cant write
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