Some more Nabokovilia (p 123):

He thinks she may be Dominique Swain -- excellent memory, George! -- who had the title role in the Lolita remake. Or is it Britney Spears?

The Ploughman's Lunch (movie) p41

What I'm reading right now is Kurt Andersen's Turn of the Century. Finished From Hell -- liked it!

Possible Nabokovilian bit in TotC :

They perfected and licensed to a bigger company a piece of software Lizzie called Speak Memory, which was permitting strangers -- young and old strangers, stupid strangers, strangers with funny accents -- to call a corporate phone number, ask a talking computer for any one of the corporation's hundred or hundred thousand employees by name, and be connected to the employee's extension automatically.

(p 22 of the hardcover.)

What I'm reading right now is Alan Moore's From Hell.

Finished A Sentimental Journey: very funny, and very sweet, and as unique in its own way as Shandy is on its own. (And how cool it is to see how characters in one find their way to the other. Nice!)

Finished Shandy yesterday, and am having a great time w/ the book the Modern Library was kind enough to throw in afterwards, A Sentimental Journey.

On Shandy: I'm sure I missed more than half the jokes. I barrelled through it and laughed and laughed and didn't bother to check up on unknown terms, places, and people. If I did I would still be reading the book -- I'd be reading the book way into next year. At any rate -- it's funny. It's very funny, and very strange, and very dirty. I'll be looking for a good Penguin-type annotated edition for a second reading.

Anyway -- for those interested in not paying money for their lit: text-only versions of Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey. (Rudenko's BookReader is highly recommended.) Also: an HTML version of Shandy and the Harvard Classics edition of A Sentimental Journey.