Nabokov's Essay: Question 8

May I just let you know how psyched I am to be on this question. The feeling I am about to have when I hit publish post won't be like any other. Well I lied. It will probably be like to the feeling I had last summer when I finally closed my Great Expectation notebook. I still flinch when I say that book title... I don't think that any of the books or essays had quite that effect this year. Out of everything that was required for this year I had to say that Nabokov's essay was my favorite. Mind you, this is my last thing I have to do to. Generally this is the point where someone would hate their life and that would cloud whatever impression this essay could have made on them. Oddly enough that is not what happened to me. I greatly enjoyed Nabokov's analogy's for one. The card castles having to be my favorite. Nabokov's idea's were just so well though out and put into such readable text you kind of had to like it. Calvino's ideas did not translate into writing nearly as well, in my opinion. Of course I don't want to exit out of this and reread the essay a thousand times, but I did take away a lot from it. I think I really did enjoy it...That's really weird to admit because I am so used to the mind set of summer reading=evil. I'm probably going to go into next year with the same mind set due to the fact I will inevitably procrastinate once again. I'll learn one day... So my reaction was a good one. I think reading and responding to the essay was very productive and I benefited from it in more ways than one. Bye:)