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Bend Sinister

Vladimir Nabokov

published: 1947, read: 6/9/25

272 pages, genre: Fiction

rating: 7.25/10, normalized: 6.944/10

-0.003σ worse than average

0.025σ or 0.027/10 better than average in Fiction genre

-0.198σ or -0.167/10 worse than average by Vladimir Nabokov

All of my books should be stamped: 'Freudians – keep out'.

was giving animal farm. But there is a lot of in-between slice of life stuff that made it less Kafka-esque or ham-fisted. Strangely enjoyable.

The glory of God is to hide a thing, and the glory of man is to find it

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7/7/25	Vladimir Nabokov	Nabokov's Dozen	214	1958	Fiction	6.635	6.261
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9/24/26	Osamu Dazai	No Longer Human	177	1948	Fiction	7.650	7.389
9/16/26	Herman Melville	Moby Dick	608	1851	Fiction	8.450	8.278		Howarddd
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1/25/26	Jacqueline Harpman	I Who Have Never Known Men	184	1995	Fiction	6.850	6.500		Jessika
1/24/26	Jon Fosse	The Other Name Septology (1)	351	2019	Fiction	6.500	6.111
1/24/26	Jon Fosse	I is Another Septology (2)	271	2020	Fiction	6.833	6.481
1/20/26	John Williams	Butcher's Crossing	274	1960	Fiction	7.750	7.500
1/19/26	Raymond Carver	What We Talk About When We Talk About Love	176	1981	Fiction	6.500	6.111
1/18/26	Sally Rooney	Beautiful World, Where Are You	368	2021	Fiction	6.250	5.833		Kayla
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12/26/25	Boris and Arkady Strugatsky	One Billion Years to the End of the World	176	1977	Fiction	7.450	7.167
12/23/25	Sally Rooney	Intermezzo	448	2024	Fiction	7.850	7.611
11/10/25	David Markson	Wittgenstein's Mistress	248	1988	Fiction	8.250	8.056		Dasha
10/15/25	Louis-Ferdinand Céline	Guignol's Band	287	1944	Fiction	6.000	5.556
10/12/25	László Krasznahorkai	Sátántangó	333	1985	Fiction	7.850	7.611
10/9/25	Vigdis Hjorth	Will and Testament	336	2016	Fiction	8.000	7.778
10/2/25	Brett Easton Ellis	The Informers	240	1994	Fiction	7.000	6.667
9/29/25	John Williams	Stoner	278	1965	Fiction	8.250	8.056
9/16/25	David Foster Wallace	Brief Interviews with Hideous Men	288	1999	Fiction	8.633	8.481
9/4/25	Sue Monk Kidd	The Book of Longings	432	2020	Fiction	6.350	5.944
8/25/25	Roberto Bolaño	Amulet	154	1999	Fiction	7.000	6.667
8/9/25	Toni Morrison	Song of Solomon	338	1977	Fiction	7.350	7.056		Ben Roth
8/7/25	Roberto Bolaño	Monsieur Pain	134	1999	Fiction	8.100	7.889
8/6/25	Denis Johnson	Train Dreams	116	2002	Fiction	7.450	7.167		Ben Roth
8/6/25	Christina Brooke-Rose	Amalgamemnon	152	1984	Fiction	7.250	6.944		Dasha
8/5/25	Thomas Pynchon	The Crying of Lot 49	152	1965	Fiction	8.750	8.611		Preston
8/5/25	Roberto Bolaño	By Night in Chile	118	2000	Fiction	7.250	6.944
8/3/25	Roberto Bolaño	The Savage Detectives	656	1998	Fiction	7.167	6.852		Dasha
7/31/25	William Faulkner	As I Lay Dying	288	1930	Fiction	7.750	7.500		Dasha
7/14/25	Mark Z. Danielewski	The Fifty Year Sword	280	2005	Fiction	5.500	5.000
7/4/25	Dino Buzzati	The Tartar Steppe	198	1940	Fiction	7.650	7.389		Ben Roth
5/31/25	Gillian Flynn	Sharp Objects	252	2006	Fiction	7.000	6.667
5/27/25	Hubert Selby Jr.	Last Exit to Brooklyn	320	1964	Fiction	8.708	8.565		King
5/24/25	Herman Melville	Bartleby the Scrivener	74	1853	Fiction	7.000	6.667		Ben Roth
4/18/25	Jane Austen	Sense and Sensibility	432	1811	Fiction	7.750	7.500		Emma
4/15/25	David Foster Wallace	The Pale King	636	2011	Fiction	7.750	7.500
4/14/25	Elisa Shua Dusapin	The Pachinko Parlor	164	2018	Fiction	7.850	7.611
2/7/25	James Joyce	Ulysses	732	1920	Fiction	8.181	7.978
1/29/25	Hubert Selby Jr.	Requiem for a Dream	288	1978	Fiction	7.500	7.222
1/21/25	Kaveh Akbar	Martyr!	352	2024	Fiction	7.750	7.500		Tommy A.
1/14/25	James Baldwin	Go Tell it on the Mountain	272	1952	Fiction	8.000	7.778
1/12/25	James Baldwin	If Beale Street Could Talk	197	1974	Fiction	6.250	5.833
1/10/25	James Baldwin	Giovanni's Room	159	1956	Fiction	6.500	6.111
1/10/25	Anthony Burgess	A Clockwork Orange	243	1962	Fiction	7.500	7.222
1/4/25	Khaled Hosseini	Kite Runner	371	2003	Fiction	6.750	6.389
12/10/24	Neal Stephenson	Zodiac	316	1988	Fiction	7.000	6.667
11/6/24	Fyodor Dostoevsky	The Gambler	191	1866	Fiction	6.500	6.111
11/5/24	Fyodor Dostoevsky	The Double	144	1846	Fiction	6.250	5.833
10/30/24	David Foster Wallace	Infinite Jest	1451	1996	Fiction	10.000	10.000
10/25/24	Various	40 x 40	394	2003	Fiction	7.500	7.222
10/18/24	John Kennedy Toole	A Confederacy of Dunces	405	1980	Fiction	7.750	7.500		Tommy A.
10/13/24	Italo Calvino	Invisible Cities	179	1972	Fiction	5.500	5.000
9/30/24	Jorge Luis Borges	The Zahir	13	1949	Fiction	7.250	6.944
9/26/24	Haruki Murakami	Kafka on the Shore	505	2002	Fiction	5.875	5.417
9/25/24	Franz Kafka	In the Penal Colony	33	1919	Fiction	7.500	7.222
9/25/24	Ray Bradbury	The Veldt	13	1950	Fiction	6.500	6.111
9/19/24	William Faulkner	Light in August	498	1932	Fiction	7.350	7.056
9/9/24	Thomas Pynchon	V.	545	1963	Fiction	7.221	6.912
8/5/24	Brian O'Raleigh	Passage to Inis Mór	305	2020	Fiction	7.750	7.500		Grandpa
6/28/24	Te-Ping Chen	The Land of Big Numbers	236	2021	Fiction	5.625	5.139
6/26/24	Various	American Short Fiction Vol. 9, Issue 33	128	2006	Fiction	7.625	7.361
6/20/24	James Joyce	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	299	1916	Fiction	6.500	6.111
6/7/24	Philip Roth	Everyman	193	2006	Fiction	4.500	3.889
6/6/24	Jorge Luis Borges	Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius	16	1940	Fiction	7.750	7.500		Chabon
6/3/24	Cormac McCarthy	The Road	257	2006	Fiction	7.500	7.222		Chabon
5/17/24	Neil Gaiman	American Gods	518	2001	Fiction	5.125	4.583		Nick W.
4/9/24	Roberto Bolaño	2666: A Novel	912	2004	Fiction	8.150	7.944		roon
3/21/24	John Steinbeck	East of Eden	601	1952	Fiction	8.688	8.542		Jack H.
2/19/24	Ray Bradbury	Mars is Heaven	12	1948	Fiction	8.000	7.778
9/1/23	Máirtín Ó Cadhain	Graveyard Clay	328	1949	Fiction	6.750	6.389
12/13/22	Adam Silvera	They Both Die at the End	243	2017	Fiction	2.000	1.111
7/25/22	Ray Bradbury	The Illustrated Man	256	1969	Fiction	7.500	7.222
6/13/22	Stephen King	The Institute	576	2019	Fiction	6.500	6.111
6/12/19	Stephen King	The Stand	1153	1978	Fiction	8.500	8.333		Dad
4/20/18	Anthony Powell	The Acceptance World A Dance to the Music of Time (3)	353	1955	Fiction	6.750	6.389		Steg
4/17/18	Anthony Powell	A Buyer's Market A Dance to the Music of Time (2)	292	1952	Fiction	6.750	6.389		Steg
4/15/18	Anthony Powell	A Question of Upbringing A Dance to the Music of Time (1)	230	1951	Fiction	6.750	6.389		Steg
3/10/18	Virginia Woolf	Mrs. Dalloway	224	1925	Fiction	6.500	6.111		Steg
11/12/17	Kazuo Ishiguro	Never Let Me Go	304	2005	Fiction	4.000	3.333
10/15/17	William Golding	Lord of the Flies	189	1954	Fiction	7.000	6.667
9/1/17	Hunter S. Thompson	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	225	1971	Fiction	6.000	5.556		Alex W.
8/12/17	Kurt Vonnegut	Slaughterhouse Five	190	1969	Fiction	7.750	7.500		Sean G.
6/21/17	Fredrik Backman	And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer	96	2016	Fiction	9.000	8.889		Mom
5/27/17	Franz Kafka	The Trial	150	1925	Fiction	7.500	7.222
2/15/17	Frank O'Connor	The Drunkard	6	1948	Fiction	8.000	7.778
10/20/16	Charles Dickens	A Tale of Two Cities	544	1859	Fiction	6.750	6.389
10/10/16	William Faulkner	The Sound and the Fury	326	1927	Fiction	8.250	8.056		Steg
5/20/16	J.D. Salinger	Catcher in the Rye	232	1951	Fiction	3.000	2.222
5/20/16	Kurt Vonengut	Timequake	278	2011	Fiction	8.250	8.056		Sean G.
9/11/14	Guy De Maupassant	The Prisoners	24	1880	Fiction	7.500	7.222
3/15/13	Richard Connell	The Most Dangerous Game	18	1924	Fiction	7.250	6.944		Mom

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