I found my way here from flckr pictures and would encourage you to read at the least the introduction to Lectures on Literature. I reread it every few years and enjoy it every time.

I may add it to my list. I have only read Lolita and Pale Fire, so far. But Pale Fire was so incredibly wonderful, that my TBR shelf is now full of Nabakov books.

I’ve read all the untranslated novels, (and a few of the translated ones), but can’t seem to get fired up about the translated (Russian) ones. I guess a big part of the excitement for me with N. is the language (I recall him saying in Speak Memory something to the effect of “if you like my English, you should hear my Russian!” Can you imagine?) and it just doesn’t feel quite the same in translation, no matter how closely scrutinized by N. himself, by his son, or whoever. I guess I enjoyed The Defense, Invitation, and a couple of the others, but the experience is just fundamentally different than, say, Ada, or Lolita, or even Pnin(!).

Anybody ever read the book of poems and chess problems?