Post by Ilya Kralinsky on Jun 30, 2012 19:44:05 GMT -5
My favorite books include ...
Lolia, by Vladimir Nabokov, because its controversy has lasted over time, generating quite the publicity, but Nabokov is a master at prose. I think this book has come the closest of any of Nabokov's works at approaching a general audience sense of stry-telling and pace, while maintaining that beautiful Nabokov prose. I think most people take it was Nabokov writing Humbert Humbert as a sympathetic protagonist, when it's more a challenge to the author to see things in such a skewered light while telling a cautionary tale.
Any books by Ilya Kralinsky, because ... check the name of this post's author. Yeah.
The Shining and The Dead Zone, both by Stephen King, back when he was hungry for the prize of publication. While these books cling to the notions of 1970s levels of acceptable exposition, I think they're still good reads. You should forget you're reading a book, and these two accomplish that for me.
If you took literary masters at one end, and penny dreadful story-tellers at the other, you'd hope to produce a Frankenstein of strong prose and well-paced story-telling.
This fulfills a reader's expectations and let's him or her feel satisfied. If you find anything like that, let me know. So much out there is tripe, sorry to say.
Lolia, by Vladimir Nabokov, because its controversy has lasted over time, generating quite the publicity, but Nabokov is a master at prose. I think this book has come the closest of any of Nabokov's works at approaching a general audience sense of stry-telling and pace, while maintaining that beautiful Nabokov prose. I think most people take it was Nabokov writing Humbert Humbert as a sympathetic protagonist, when it's more a challenge to the author to see things in such a skewered light while telling a cautionary tale.
Any books by Ilya Kralinsky, because ... check the name of this post's author. Yeah.
The Shining and The Dead Zone, both by Stephen King, back when he was hungry for the prize of publication. While these books cling to the notions of 1970s levels of acceptable exposition, I think they're still good reads. You should forget you're reading a book, and these two accomplish that for me.
If you took literary masters at one end, and penny dreadful story-tellers at the other, you'd hope to produce a Frankenstein of strong prose and well-paced story-telling.
This fulfills a reader's expectations and let's him or her feel satisfied. If you find anything like that, let me know. So much out there is tripe, sorry to say.