Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0007515, Sat, 1 Feb 2003 15:53:24 -0800

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Re: Reading Suggestions, Please (fwd)
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From: Christopher Berg <tentender@peoplepc.com>

Many of the following previously mentioned on list:

Flann O'Brien (especially The Third Policeman, but all his books are of
considerable interest; At Swim-Two-Birds is his best known)

Rushdie (everything but the two most recent novels, which seem to me a steep
decline, and esp. The Moor's Last Sigh, The Satanic Verses)

G.V. Desani (only one book: All About H. Hatterr -- but what a book!)

Alan Hollinghurst (all)

Philip Hensher (esp. Kitchen Venom, Other Lulus, Pleasured, in that order)
W. G. Sebald (all)

Vikram Seth (not a Victorian, but his huge A Suitable Boy has been compared
to Trollope -- don't hold this against it; also his wonderful verse novel in
Onegin Stanzas, The Golden Gate -- but NOT, I warn you, An Equal Music --
Barbara Cartland territory!)

Zadie Smith (personally I liked both her books very much, but some have more
reservations than I about her second book, "The Autograph Man")

All these offer challenges and rewards the nature of which will be familiar
to readers of Nabokov.

Christopher Berg
Paris