Reply #13: "Lolita" is One of My Favorite Novels [View All]

[On the Road]

After finishing it, I cried inexplicably for about 20 minutes. It's very strange and powerful.

Having said that, I had to vote "Other." "Pale Fire" is another Nabokov novel with a more classicly unreliable narrator. It's sort of a novel, anyway -- actually a long poem ("I was the shadow of the waxwing slain...") copiously footnoted and annotated with comments that have almost nothing to do with the poem itself, but gradually explain what happenned and how it came to be published. Very disorienting and funny -- it took me awhile to grasp what was happening.

I also considered "Fight Club" even before Paragon mentioned it. Another of my faves.

A more obscure novel that I absolutely loved was "The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun" by Sebastien Japrisot, a French filmmaker. It's written more like a popular novel, but the narrator's sanity and reliabilty is constantly called into question by the events of the book. Get it if you ever see it.