Vladimir Nabokov discussion

Has anyone read this new book by Nabokov Biographer and Critic Brian Boyd? I took it out of the Library, but because of other reading commitments probably will have to return it unread. I have the 2 volume Biography and Boyd's book about "Pale Fire" which was both enjoyable and enlightening! I don't have his book about "Ada."

A big fan of the novel Pale Fire, as I said, I regard the novel Ada as his poorest.
We should be grateful to his biographers like Brian Boyd. They did a great work.

I studied Pale Fire in a University course and Nabokov has since been my favourite author. I've read the 1st volume of Boyd's biography, but haven't yet read the 2nd volume, Stalking Nabokov, or the commentary on Pale Fire. But I certainly will read these when I get a decent chunk of time to dedicate to them.

Boyd's book about Ada revealed masses of intricacies that made me appreciate the novel a lot more. I suppose any good commentary does that.

I love it that a lad who grew up in Palmerston North and (I'm told) taught himself Russian became the foremost authority on one of the world's greatest novelists.

Loving novels of his Berlin period or so-called "Russian novels", written in Russian, I dislike the novel Ada, most probably, because of the poor translation. But the translation of his last complete novel Look at the Harlequins is brilliant, and yet I dislike the book as well, perhaps, under the influence his Russian novels' quality too much. Ada has not the ardor of his young age.