Vincent J Newman J Newman من عند 33557 Vega de Sebarga, Asturias, إسبانيا
This is really only meant for Nabokov completists and not readers like me who have only read Lolita before. Nabokov assumes the persona that ignorant critics and uninformed readers have crafted for him and then writes a bizarre memoir in that voice. So what we have here are the mental wanderings of an incestuous, pretentious, slightly insane, egocentric pedophile who writes terribly. Maybe I would have enjoyed it more if I were more familiar with Nabokov's early works and his personal history, but without that background I found it rather tedious.
Library Policeman is the freakin scariest thing I have ever read. I read it in middle school when I was camping, and I couldn't sleep. I do not believe this story had anything to do with my career choice.
Pretty good - learned a lot about Florence in 1490s, painting, Medicis, religious extremism; somewhat tedious, sometimes. Main character not very sympathetic. Worth a read.