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Originally Posted by evollove
I really like Nabokov's early, Russian books. They are short and punchy. Might as well start in chronological order, but DESPAIR, DEFENSE, and INVITATION TO A BEHEADING are perhaps my favs. (THE GIFT is his last Russian book. Like ADA, it's great but a tad dull, ifyouknowwhatImean.)
Also, his short story collection is a must have. Seriously. Buy it now.
He did loose his strength as he got older. Post-Lolita, PNIN and PALE FIRE are the only really great ones.
What Martin Amis have you read? His early stuff, at least, strikes me as the prose of Updike's and Nabokov's bastard child.
By the way, I'm almost ALWAYS in the mood for Updike.
I'll get cracking on the Hannah.
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finally got a book of Updikes, early short stories, never read him before.......just picked up one Zola I hadn't read, The Belly of Paris, and another Bolano, Last Evenings on Earth, but still finishing a 400 page history of New World Slavery that, although densely written, as say a textbook, provides so much history that I didn't know, has proven itself well worth wading thru.....