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Old 04-02-2008, 01:54 PM   #1 (permalink)
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I'm reading, "Why I let my Hair Grow Out" by Maryrose Wood. So far, so good. =]
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Old 04-02-2008, 04:27 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I just finished "Laughter in the Dark". Now I'm reading "The Joy Luck Club".
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Old 04-02-2008, 05:38 PM   #3 (permalink)
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I just finished "Laughter in the Dark".
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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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. :\
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...
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