(Review for Speak, Memory only: four stars) It was a pleasure to read Nabokov after so long. I forgot how easy it is to get carried along by the flow and particularities of his prose, sometimes to the point of losing the meaning of what's being expressed. Speak, Memory is a kind of memoir of Nabok...
When I commit to reading something, I don't fuck around. Let's DO THIS..Such a pity I had to buy the novel separately. I understand why it's done this way, but realistically, you're not going to read this material without having read the novel.
I did not like the autobiography so it gets one star, but because it was exquisitely written it gets another star to boot. But that doesn't make the book good or very much fun to read. It was similar to orally having to swallow some very disgusting-tasting medicine. And I am really not sure why I ha...
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