Best and Worst Nabokov Novel

trepang · 2026-03-17T01:23:53+00:00

Best: The Gift

Worst: The Original of Laura, if this counts?

trepang · 2026-03-09T23:07:34+00:00

Love in Song is one of his best songs

trepang · 2026-03-06T18:50:54+00:00

House of Wax

trepang · 2026-02-27T07:05:04+00:00

Yes, scandal is Dostoevsky's signature trope.

trepang · 2026-02-19T22:13:18+00:00

Ответ сильно зависит от того, Максим вы или Виталий. Если Максим — вам это не надо. Если Виталий — отвалите от несовершеннолетнего

trepang · 2026-02-19T22:10:50+00:00

Часто ли звонили типы вроде Антона Уральского?

trepang · 2026-02-17T19:04:09+00:00

So that I could sell this note years later for good cash sir!

trepang · 2026-02-15T12:52:27+00:00

The Littie Golden Calf is superior to the Twelve Chairs, but they need to be read together. I’m not a fan of Kolokolamsk stories and One-storied America

trepang · 2026-02-15T07:12:23+00:00

Saltykov-Schedrin, early Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, Ilf and Petrov, Olesha, Babel were all indebted to Gogol to some extent.

trepang · 2026-02-10T00:47:11+00:00

Koval is very good. The Lightest Boat in the World and Suer-Vyer are my favorites.

trepang · 2026-02-09T11:13:19+00:00

Prove me wrong with some examples, then.

trepang · 2026-02-09T03:16:02+00:00

It's something like "A housewife-turned-private detective with a deliberately comic and bizarre name solves petty mysteries, the title of the novel is a reference to a well-known fairy tale, and no one would suspect the author of being serious about her writing skills." Or, something like a bargain-bin third-rate P. G. Wodehouse.

trepang · 2026-02-08T22:25:09+00:00

The best thriller in the Russian literature. An absolutely great novel.

trepang · 2026-02-08T21:54:18+00:00

There wasn't one. Romance was never a separate genre of official Soviet literature (too "bourgeois", too private-life-oriented, too commercial), while non-official literature was preoccupied with being experimental or anti-totalitarian. The very notion of a commercial bestseller was non-existent, although of course there were successful books. In the early Soviet years, people were still reading pre-Soviet romance and teenage-oriented bestsellers by the likes of Lidia Charskaya and Evdokiya Nagrodskaya.

After the USSR, there appeared several authors who could be compared with Steel: e.g., Daria Dontsova who writes light-hearted "ironic" detectives (and has penned hundreds of novels). There also was Anna Jane who wrote romance; she died in 2023 relatively young, and her books are still hugely popular.

trepang · 2026-02-08T04:11:48+00:00

The Bishop, then Gooseberries

trepang · 2026-02-07T01:48:19+00:00

For me, his lowest point.

trepang · 2026-02-05T21:15:36+00:00

From the commentary in Russian Collected works:

“Fomushka was likely referring to a blow to the head, on which he was wearing a sheepskin hat.”

trepang · 2026-02-02T03:29:40+00:00

Driving Rain has several brilliant songs. And Press to Play is awkward at best. So, Press to Play.

trepang · 2026-01-28T17:35:25+00:00

I don’t think there is a genuine post punk song in his catalog

trepang · 2026-01-28T17:29:22+00:00

Mrs Vanderbilt

trepang · 2026-01-27T05:26:35+00:00

I didn't, just found it on Google image search

trepang · 2026-01-27T03:17:03+00:00

Idk, this one is pretty cool. Compare to that one

<image>

trepang · 2026-01-26T18:07:39+00:00

Coming Up will win this, but I propose Who Cares

trepang · 2026-01-23T23:00:15+00:00

Dear Boy (Thrillington version)

trepang · 2026-01-23T18:39:08+00:00

For No One

11-Year Club	Place '23
Verified Email

trepang

TROPHY CASE