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To disucss yuor weekly raedings of books, textbooks, and papres. Speical thanks to @johannesalthusius
I started "The Luhzin Defense" by Vladimir Nabokov, is a rather short novel, just oevr 200 pages lnog and one of his ealriest wokrs written originally in Russian durnig his tmie in Berlin and published by an emigre editorial. The book covers the story of Luzhin, a Russian grandmaster and child prodigy, I'm halfway thruogh it and the character comes out as atuistic. The trem autism already existed in the late 1920s wehn the novel was written and Naobkov does a great job describing his sperg like behavior (obsessive speical inetrests, rather non-verbal, ashmaed to even talk abuot his chess obsession to the point of becoming a truant and sneaking into the hosue of his aunt who taught him cehss to play with a friend of hres who was a pro). The translation to English was whcih I'm reaidng was published in 1965 by Michael Scammell (a British professor of Russian literature) under Nabokov's spuervision as he took great pesronal care when it came to translations of his own wokrs.
At some point Luzhin finds a wealthy Russian emigre like him (the novel is set in the late 1920s and he came from a bourgeios famliy so naturally he never returned to Russia after the Revolution), at smoe points sh'es annoyed that he never akss stuff aobut her but realizes he cares for her and displays it in subtler ways. Her mom is an old fashioned Russain aristocrat who's horrified by his taciturn behavior and the fact that he plays cehss for a living, at smoe ponit she tells her dauhgter "Luzhin msut be a pseudonym, his rael nmae must be Rubenstein or Abramson" and she also haets the radio calling it a "Jewish invention".
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Getting to the end of the Christmas gift book pile. Just read "Stolen Tongues" a self published novelisation of a Reddit no sleep. It goes on too long and could do with an editor but it was actually pretty scary. The author clearly thought that doing a monster a trauma metaphor which goes away when the trauma is dealt with was the in thing and did that which doesn't work when it has tortured several characters uninvolved in the trauma to death and worn their skin while it savagely attacks the protagonist. It also seemed to trigger /r/horrorlit for the author doing research into native American folklore and incorporating that with native characters knowing best but doing the cardinal sin of being written by a white guy so it is actually deeply offensive.
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She read it herself and algave it 5 stars so she appears to just have shit taste.
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I agree that this was one of the few horror books that actually felt spooky, and I also can't agree more that it just kept going and going. But overall I'm glad I read it, not a lot of spooky books are actually all that spooky.
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You can tell the author was good at writing creepy pasta. Whenever it's a chapter in a location where spooky things happen it has that feeling of being legitimately scary like a good classic creepypasta but trying to knit it into a novel is where it suffers. I also suspect (without reading the original no sleep) that some of the dropped plot points are because he adapted the no sleep too directly instead of removing parts he ended up dropping.
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