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On 12/10/17, Sweeney, Susan Elizabeth <ssweeney@holycross.edu> wrote:
> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/08/books-that-made-me-ian-rankin-nabokov-lolita
>
( it was only Monday that I saw this.... ONLY 4 days ago
it seems like months ago , by Net standards. )
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/08/books-that-made-me-ian-rankin-nabokov-lolita
Caption reads: ‘I did mostly like Ulysses’ … Ian Rankin.
Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian
>>>
The book I think is most under/overrated
Overrated: Vladimir Nabokov’s [Lolita].
Underrated: [The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a
Justified Sinner] by James Hogg.
The book I’m most ashamed not to have read
James Joyce’s [Finnegans Wake]. I did mostly like [Ulysses].
The book I most often give as a gift
[The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie] by Muriel Spark.
<<<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Rankin
1. I wonder why he thinks
Nabokov’s [Lolita] is the most Overrated book
(that he knows of).
(or that he wants to mention)
Since Rankin is a crime novelist... Could it be
that he thinks it's low-rate as a whodunit ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Rankin
Ian James Rankin, OBE, DL, FRSE, FRSL (born 28 April 1960) is a
Scottish crime writer, best known for his Inspector Rebus novels.
( Did VN collect similar titles, after his name ? )
2. He even has connections with TV stations and TV shows.
So why have NONE of his books become TV shows or movies?
and
WHY have so few James Patterson books become films? HH
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> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/08/books-that-made-me-ian-rankin-nabokov-lolita
>
( it was only Monday that I saw this.... ONLY 4 days ago
it seems like months ago , by Net standards. )
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/08/books-that-made-me-ian-rankin-nabokov-lolita
Caption reads: ‘I did mostly like Ulysses’ … Ian Rankin.
Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian
>>>
The book I think is most under/overrated
Overrated: Vladimir Nabokov’s [Lolita].
Underrated: [The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a
Justified Sinner] by James Hogg.
The book I’m most ashamed not to have read
James Joyce’s [Finnegans Wake]. I did mostly like [Ulysses].
The book I most often give as a gift
[The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie] by Muriel Spark.
<<<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Rankin
1. I wonder why he thinks
Nabokov’s [Lolita] is the most Overrated book
(that he knows of).
(or that he wants to mention)
Since Rankin is a crime novelist... Could it be
that he thinks it's low-rate as a whodunit ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Rankin
Ian James Rankin, OBE, DL, FRSE, FRSL (born 28 April 1960) is a
Scottish crime writer, best known for his Inspector Rebus novels.
( Did VN collect similar titles, after his name ? )
2. He even has connections with TV stations and TV shows.
So why have NONE of his books become TV shows or movies?
and
WHY have so few James Patterson books become films? HH
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,dana.dragunoiu@gmail.com,shvabrin@humnet.ucla.edu
Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
Nabokov Studies: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/257
Chercheurs Enchantes: http://www.vladimir-nabokov.org/association/chercheurs-enchantes/73
Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
AdaOnline: "http://www.ada.auckland.ac.nz/
The Nabokov Society of Japan's Annotations to Ada: http://vnjapan.org/main/ada/index.html
The VN Bibliography Blog: http://vnbiblio.com/
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