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PS to posting about a misplaced archive, related to a review sent to the Nab-List by someone named Farmer:
The Great American Novel by Michial Farmer - http://www.christianhumanist.org/chb/2010/04/the-great-american-novel/
first lines: "I first read Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita during my second semester of college, reading it furtively and fifty minutes at a time during an Old Testament class. (I would take another course from the same professor a few years later and note, to my shame and guilt, that he'd added to his syllabus a new commandment: "No reading during class.") I was, to understate the case drastically, not ready for Lolita. If I'd started, as I'd been instructed to, with some of Nabokov's more obviously experimental fiction (Pale Fire, say, or Ada), I'd have been more inclined to read closely, skeptically. But Lolita, though miles of dark rivers flow beneath its surface, is built on such a straightforward narrative-boy meets girl; boy gets girl; boy loses girl-that it's easy to lose track of what Nabokov is really up to.Lolita, we must note, is quite possibly the most revolting novel of the twentieth century. It is also among the most beautiful..."
JM
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The Great American Novel by Michial Farmer - http://www.christianhumanist.org/chb/2010/04/the-great-american-novel/
first lines: "I first read Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita during my second semester of college, reading it furtively and fifty minutes at a time during an Old Testament class. (I would take another course from the same professor a few years later and note, to my shame and guilt, that he'd added to his syllabus a new commandment: "No reading during class.") I was, to understate the case drastically, not ready for Lolita. If I'd started, as I'd been instructed to, with some of Nabokov's more obviously experimental fiction (Pale Fire, say, or Ada), I'd have been more inclined to read closely, skeptically. But Lolita, though miles of dark rivers flow beneath its surface, is built on such a straightforward narrative-boy meets girl; boy gets girl; boy loses girl-that it's easy to lose track of what Nabokov is really up to.Lolita, we must note, is quite possibly the most revolting novel of the twentieth century. It is also among the most beautiful..."
JM
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