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Originally Posted by adidasss
How was it? I've only read Lolita but I was so blown away by that book that I'm actually a little apprehensive to pick anything else of his. Plus, I've read some contradictory reports about it. :\
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Well, "Laughter" is the only book of Nabakov's that I've read. I thought the story itself was slow at first, but picked up and got interesting in the second half of the book. But the real reason Nabokov is a literary genius is because of the way he writes. He's a master wordsmith. So in that sense, it was absolutely fabulous.
One person I knew described "Laughter" as a poor man's "Lolita"...so you can take that how you see fit I suppose. I'm itching to read "Lolita" now just because "Laughter" was so good, but "Lolita" has received so many more great reviews. We'll see...