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. 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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Just read Stardust by Neil Gaiman. An enjoyable modern take on proto-fantasy fiction, though I found it a bit too short to really get into the romance plot. But concise writing does help feed the fairy story atmosphere.
After reading it, I found out that it was originally published in a heavily illustrated format. The version I read was text only. I wonder how that affects the overall experience. I didn't really feel like it was missing anything, but maybe the illustration balanced out the "short" feeling.
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