"All Happy Families" [ADA, OR ARDOR]

Chad and Brian kick off the new season of the Two Month Review talking about the first nine chapters of Vladimir Nabokov's ADA, OR ARDOR.

[@roblosh8417]

I’m so happy this exists! Me and my partner are huge Nabokov fans (her converting me) and I just finished Lolita last night and immediately started Ahdah. I thought I was reading it wrong too lol. You guys are right about the first few chapters though, he is just having fun with the grandiosity of it all (though you guys were still able to make a lot more sense of them). Super helpful, I’m glad you guys made this.

[@chrisoleson9570]

I'm greatly looking forward to reading Ada along with you young men because I've been carrying a copy of this book for decades.

[@timlynch5710]

I found reading it outloud helped the 1st 5 chapters make more sense.

[@dominicconti6278]

I enoyed rhis, guys. Thanks. I'm currently finishing the book. Re: the beginning, it's interesting that Nabokov writes "Karenina, "rather than "Karenin." Nabokov believed Toystoy's title should not have an "a" at the end.

[@thefeebles]

Please tell me someone finally explained to you why Marina was pregnant in 1869 ...

[@yakwtfgoidgafwabgtsam]

L disaster was a total ban of electricity in Antiterra!

[@meredithbush5628]

FYI, granoblastic is a common description in geology - very common to see in marbles and other similar metamorphic rocks... I first read this book after picking it up from a bookstore in Mexico on a geology field trip in college...

[@twomonthreview4145]

That's absolutely fascinating! And nice timing when you got the book!