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― Bloggers Might Ride (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Awesome quadruple post.
― bamcquern, Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:48 (fourteen years ago) link
You should see some of mine sometime!
bend sinister was such a weird book, kind of like the slightly deranged stuff in that collection of pynchyon's first short stories or something. I only read half of it though so who knows what happens.
― nice email (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:51 (fourteen years ago) link
despair or the eye
― harbl, Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:53 (fourteen years ago) link
or pnin
I don't really like any of them to be honest (sorry), but The Luzhin Defense is the best of the lot, I think.
― grobravara hollaglob (dowd), Thursday, 12 November 2009 01:08 (fourteen years ago) link
i like all of them, i voted for king, queen, knave
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 12 November 2009 01:09 (fourteen years ago) link
I love these! Voted for The Luzhin Defense.
― WmC, Thursday, 12 November 2009 01:32 (fourteen years ago) link
I wonder if the new Speak, Memory has the SKETCH MAP OF THE NABOKOV LANDS IN THE ST. PETERSBURG REGION prepared by V.N. on a scale of 1 inch = 1 verst.
― Bloggers Might Ride (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 12 November 2009 04:56 (fourteen years ago) link
"I don't really like any of them to be honest (sorry)"
i don't either. i would make up nice things to say about them though if they were the work of shy high school students. you know, to be nice.
― scott seward, Thursday, 12 November 2009 05:04 (fourteen years ago) link
I think most of them are a lot more attractive than a lot of the books I have. Most of them, maybe?
― bamcquern, Thursday, 12 November 2009 05:41 (fourteen years ago) link
They would all make reasonably attractive book covers if they were simple 2D designs. At least as good as (and in some cases much better than) the various packaging's Nabokov's gotten over the years. I quite like The Eye, King Queen Knave, Pale Fire and Pnin. That said, in most cases, these seem like 3D mock-ups of planned 2D designs. By which I mean that the specimen box device isn't really being exploited all that well/fully.
― from alcoholism to fleshly concerns (contenderizer), Thursday, 12 November 2009 06:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Voted despair - Glory is underrated tho I think! I guess it is kind of vector art/Ed Hardy T-Shirt but that is an aesthetic I really like.
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
voted Bend SinisterAlso, "Look at the Harlequins!" reminds me of...http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/11/Michaeljacksondangerous.jpg
― so says surgeon snoball (snoball), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
I should've voted. I might've given Ada a vote.
― bamcquern, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 00:12 (fourteen years ago) link