Review: Mary
User Review - Katy - GoodreadsDon't know what the point of this was. It took me a few hours to read and I'm still not really too sure what happened. I like the style of writing, but nothing in its pages gripped me or compelled me ... Read full review
Review: Mary
User Review - John Beck - Goodreadshttp://andalittlewine.blogspot.com/2012/11/book-review-mary-by-vladimir-nabokov.... Vladimir Nabokov's Mary is the story of a man with the opportunity to be reunited with an old flame. Nostalgia is a ... Read full review
Review: Mary
User Review - Dale R. Wilsey Jr. - GoodreadsMemories and shadows. Images of the past that roll through the mind like smoke escaping the bellies of locomotives. A photo. A certain scent. Mary. Mary is coming. Nabokov's first novel has cemented ... Read full review
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User Review - John Pappas - GoodreadsI suppose Nabokov scholars might herald the recent publication of the posthumous drafts and notes of the novel-to-be entitled The Original of Laura because of the insight it gives into Nabokov's ... Read full review
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User Review - Jonfaith - GoodreadsI read this in 1999 and then again a few years ago. THIS is what first novels should aspire towards. Instead every MFA wants to Pynchon-it over the fence and we have reams of bad puns and pop culture ... Read full review
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User Review - Sarah Brody - GoodreadsLive the pure simplicity and shortness of the book. Very authentic. When I lived at the shores of Lake Geneva and attended Art Center (Europe) I was given Nabokov as a subject to read and write about ... Read full review
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User Review - Peter - GoodreadsFor a book in which largely nothing happens, Nabokov has a lot to say. In fact, the novella has so little in terms of notable actionable events, that it could be adumbrated in less than a couple of ... Read full review
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User Review - Janice - GoodreadsI'm reviewing this under less than ideal circumstances, as I read this over three months ago back in August -- at the Washington Dulles airport no less, waiting for a flight back home after a ten hour ... Read full review
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User Review - Frank - GoodreadsThis little book is a different side of Nabokov from what I've seen before, limited that may be. The only other things I've read, Lolita and Pnin ,were both set in the States, and more specifically ... Read full review
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User Review - Dan Keating - GoodreadsI just read Vladimir Nabokov's "Mary" in a single day. Two things can be extracted from that fact - one, that "Mary" is a book that can be read in a single day, and two, that Mary is enjoyable and ... Read full review
