Conversations on Facebook chat part 2

Me:
steeeeeeeeeeve
I'm trying to read the stand I just can't get into it like I should

Steve:
haha

dude, that book
man
starts off so promising
the first 500 pages are great
then it just plummets
has the most anticlimactic ending of all time
stephen king lost the sauce in the middle of writing it
said so in many interviews, plus he was drinking and doing drugs too
his focus fell away
i still don't know why so many people swear by that book
Me :
That is why I'm reading it so many people are like you have to read the stand

Steve: ever read any nabokov?

Me: Nah

Steve:
don't start with LOLITA
unless you can find the annotated version
PALE FIRE is his best book
but its a doozy
my fav easy to get into nabokov book is called DESPAIR
its HILARIOUS

Me: I was gonna give gravity's rainbow a try

Steve: Marce! you cant plunge into those beasts unless you got your harpoon ready to go

Steve:
russian stuff is thick
very slow
always a huge emphasis on family
and establishing a setting
its hard to like but impossible to not love if you're in the right mind set for it

Me: I need some fast depressing fiction,
I like isolated male characters..alcoholics
Like the musician in the stand they could have done the whole book on him or the relationship between him and his mother

Steve Matis: notes from the underground by dostoevsky

Me:I tried to read the brothers suckadick

Steve Matis:
karamazov
that book is fucking brilliant
i couldn't put it down
same with crime and punishment
nabokov HATED dostoevsky
he would flunk students in his class who wrote positively about him

Me:LOL Are you serious
I would do some shit like that
you get an f for coming in here looking like peaches geldof
Good luck working at urban outfitters tramp

Me: What is going on in fiction right now?

Steve:
i have no idea
i don't read much these days, its lame
ever read any james ellroy ?
Me: Nope, Is it that true crime stuff?

steve:he is the only writer who i ever got nightmares from,
nah, but it seems like it
its all fiction
but its deep and dark
totally brilliant

Me: (after I googled a picture of james ellroy) This nigga looks creepy.