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15066132 No.15066132 [Reply] [Original]

I literally cannot stand any fiction writer other than Nabokov.

I mean, NOT A SINGLE ONE, I absolutely CAN'T STAND reading any other writer, they all sound stale compared to Nabokov.

Please don't read Nabokov, he will set a new standard and ruin every single other book for you forever.

>> No.15066165

I've only read Lolita, so it's too late for me anon. Just tell me where to go next, Pale Fire or Ada?

>> No.15066742

>>15066132
But his English is patball compared to Joyce's champion game.

>> No.15067098

>>15066742
that's why you must read him in Russian, drop this shitty language

>> No.15067103

>>15066132
I promise there are other prose stylists that match and exceed him

>> No.15067104

>I can only stand one of the worst over-glorified fictional writers

Expand your horizons, nerd.

>> No.15067188

>>15067103
who?

>> No.15067225

>>15067188

Joyce, Faulkner, Melville, and Eliot.

>> No.15067292

>>15067225
Joyce is bland and unoriginal; Faulkner is just straight out unbearable.

>> No.15067305

>>15067292

“Yikes”

>> No.15067318

>>15067225
Nabokov thought Tolstoy was better than him, and Anna Karenina was the greatest work of prose.

>> No.15067332

>>15066165
Pale Fire far surpasses Lolita in creativity and takes the unreliable narrator to far greater lengths. It's a book you have to read 2 or 3 times because your perspective will change each time and you'll continue to pick up on more of the nuanced humor. Lolita inches it our with better prose though. I can't speak on Ada as I've mostly forgotten it now.

>> No.15067344

>>15067318
Well he wasn't wrong about Anna Karenina.

>> No.15067358

>>15066165
Pnin

>> No.15067364

>>15067225
Alexander Theroux, Wallace Stegner, Larry Woiwode, Melville

>> No.15068361

>>15066132
As a matter of preference he is my favorite writer of fiction. Tolstoy is also great but Nabokov is my personal fav

>> No.15068543

Shakespeare
Lewis Carroll
James Joyce
Herman Melville
Possibly Jonathan Swift

Pope, Sterne, Proust, and Flaubert might be; but have yet to read them.

>> No.15068546

Borges too, obviously. (Even in translation!)

>> No.15068653

>>15068546
Borges was a favorite of Nabokov's, whom he called "a man of infinite talent". If you're into Nabokov, you should probably love Borges.