i wish i'd read it years ago
i might be a couple of chapters further on by now but i couldn't get comfortable on that iron bench by the river in wandsworth park ... why can't they make one in my size ?
lionel trilling & nabokov on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldpj_5JNFoA
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tristram shandy is horrible!! i had to read it as an undergrad--the only thing that was worse was Pamela.
blimey, josh ! i was taken by surprise as i'd only posted it a few minutes ago !
i admit tristram shandy is hard work, so that the characters and sterne's unique humanity come into focus only very slowly
i guess i'd like to have read lolita at the same time that i read catch 22 and slaughterhouse five
best wishes, and i hope you'll drop by another time
Nonono, Tristram is magnificent, Lolita is horrible.
Well, magnificently written, obviously, but horrible.
I can't justify my loathing of it. I just loathe it. Which makes me feel unpleasatly like Disgusted of Basingstoke, but there it is.
yes ... it has to be read at arm's length ... and then you must examine your conscience
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