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things i liked:
1. beautifully written
2. good representation

things i didn't like:
1. so much shit happened in Jude's childhood, maybe a little too much, made me a bit numb
2. plateaued a little in the middle of the book. while i understand it's meant to be more detail-oriented, it needed a little bit of more momentum from the story line.
3. i just wish Jude was a little bit less self-pitying
4. it felt a little feminine, maybe because it was written by a female author. she didn't understand the male psyche well enough (in my personal opinion)

average.

Written as a relief and respite from the dark, sinful, and obsessive Humbert from Lolita, Pnin is about the comical misadventures of an expat Russian professor in America.

Nabokov's strength in his prose is assuredly indulgent and always a treat, but it does make for a slow read at times.

The eponymous hero of the novel is extremely loveable and peculiar and has won my heart in more ways than one.

boring as heck. just not worth any of the cute moments. also her writing is really repetitive

“Art thou afeard to be the same in thine own act and valour as thou art in desire?”

Lady Macbeth was one of my favourite parts of this play. People can question her morality all they want but I personally admired her ambition and bravery in acting out her desires, and staying loyal to her husband. Meanwhile, Macbeth was initially too much of a coward to work towards his desires, killed his loyalty to the king, murdered his friend, went on a crazy killing spree, and then simply shrugged off his wife's death. Lady Macbeth is a freaking badass. I mean just look at this:

Come, you spiritsThat tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,And fill me from the crown to the toe top-fullOf direst cruelty. Make thick my blood.Stop up the access and passage to remorse,That no compunctious visitings of natureShake my fell purpose, nor keep peace betweenThe effect and it!