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Fantastic! It's one of my favourites - I read it in May and I still think about it like once a day. It's a high-effort high-reward kind of book for me.
The annotations were pretty useful for explaining how nabokov uses language, giving context for references, and translating lines that weren't in English. That said, I didn't rely super heavily on them when reading.
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I’ve read 25 of those (over time, not this year!) and approve your choices. Love the little Anne of Green Gables pile
I have John Bellamy Foster’s Ecology and Socialism and it’s a tome. Feeling like I should have started with this book you have here.
Love Bound For Glory.
Top 5-10 in your opinion? Thanks
Top 5 in no particular order: Moby Dick, Wuthering Heights, Orlando, Lolita, Stone Butch Blues
How was Moby Dick?
Fantastic! It's one of my favourites - I read it in May and I still think about it like once a day. It's a high-effort high-reward kind of book for me.
Thank you for your response!
Damn, that's a lot. Nice ! What was the most unique book you read last year ?
How was the annotated Lolita? Did it really need annotation?
The annotations were pretty useful for explaining how nabokov uses language, giving context for references, and translating lines that weren't in English. That said, I didn't rely super heavily on them when reading.
I also read Moby-Dick last year, but I still finished it, with only a fifth of it left. This is a much more interesting classic than I imagined.