Pnin - 4/10
If you're a big Nabokov fan you might get a bit of a kick out of this, but jesus christ, pretentious doesn't even come close to describing this book. 'A Russian professor doesn't speak english very well and anglicises a Russian word in an attempt to communicate properly har de har har' is stretched to become a chapter. There are positives, it did raise a titter a few and under all the guff is a clever, sensitive novel but boy is that well hidden.
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