No. I have not read it nor do I plan to. I have also never read Hustler and other such trash. My preference is for books and other publications that uplift: The Holy Bible, The United States Constitution, Mere Christianity, Escape from Reason, Evangelism Explosion and the like.
VN was a good friend of William F Buckley.
So? Murray Kempton was also a friend of Mr. Buckley's.
“My preference is for books and other publications that uplift: The Holy Bible, The United States Constitution, Mere Christianity, Escape from Reason, Evangelism Explosion and the like.”
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Yikes,I’ll read anything,if it’s even just out of curiosity.
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Fiction is obviously regarded in a different way than the texts you listed. And it does uplift. It’s Americana written by a naturalized American citizen who loved America.
And Kempton and Buckley were ideological rivals. Buckley and Nabokov saw eye to eye politically.