@jaredbland Are you joking with me? You really don't like Gatsby?
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Replying to @StephenMarche
@StephenMarche@jaredbland I agree with Jared. Gatsby isn't great but middling. Main virtue is you can teach it in high schools.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @HeerJeet
@HeerJeet@jaredbland I'm reread it at least a dozen times. It's like Eliot's 4 quartets. Simple but infinite.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @StephenMarche
@StephenMarche@jaredbland A dozen times?!? Think of how much Nabokov you could have read in that time!1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @HeerJeet
@HeerJeet@jaredbland Only eight Nabokov novels are really good. And the stories. Honestly. And he's the worst writer for a writer to read.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @StephenMarche
@StephenMarche@jaredbland Only eight novels and the stories! And "Speak, Memory". I even like his lectures (although he's often cranky).1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @HeerJeet
@HeerJeet@jaredbland Also the Pushkin translation, which is a kind of hidden masterpiece. It's out of print.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@StephenMarche @jaredbland Pushkin translation interesting for light it sheds on Pale Fire & the comedy of excessive annotation.
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