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• sonnym · Mar 29, 2010 · Recommends

  …Lolita and The Gift), might give a premature distaste for Nabokov's heady style. What I would personally recommend for someone new to Nabokov would be any of Despair, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, or Transparent Things. If you like Nabokov, you may also want to try: Rushdie, Salman - The Satanic Verses Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49

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• V-2 · Sep 12, 2015 · Recommends

  Obviously not s-f as such, but - quite a few novels by Nabokov. "The Luzhin Defence" (aka "The Defense"), "The Eye", "Bend Sinister", "Transparent Things" - all very immersing, and posing the question of what's the true reality, its underpinnings and seams. Challenging reads for sure, every detail matters. Some might recommend Pynchon as well, personally…

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• agys · Nov 22, 2024 · Recommends

  A dissing with two of my favourite authors as protagonists, thank you! A small extract of “Transparent Things" by Nabokov that I love so much: how a Caran d’Ache pencil is built. An incredible travel through space and time! https://thenabokovian.org/node/53398

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• Fezzik · Dec 7, 2016 · Recommends

  …books if you enjoyed Lolita - I find them to be more complicated (in a good way) and also written magnificently. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Bend Sinister, Despair, 'Ada, or Ardor', Pale Fire, and Transparent Things are all personal favorites. But all of his novels are absurdly good. His short story 'Beneficence' may be may favorite piece of writing ever. He had a knack for capturing a simple occurrence, making…

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• leephillips · Aug 18, 2021 · Mentions

  …counterexample, because they are probably classified as modern, but people carry on disputes about the basic elements of the plots of Nabokov’s novels. There is no general agreement about the actual plot of Transparent Things, and a lot of argument over what really happened in Lolita. In many of his works, such as Pale Fire and Bend Sinister, you have to think a lot just to apprehend what the plot was, and when you get it,…

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• AlbertCory · Oct 29, 2023 · Mentions

  …Coyle is a book I've read twice. I think the clean, tight simplicity of the story might make it live on, like O'Henry stories. But who TF knows? I have read some Nabokov, but I'd never even heard of Transparent Things, FWIW.

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