Nabokov believes that a good reader has 4 main qualities. These qualities are imagination, memory, a dictionary on hand, and some type of artistic sense. I agree with him and believe that readers should have each of these qualities. I think that a reader doesn’t need all of them to be a good reader because you can acquire artistic sense when you are reading. I believe a good quality that a reader should have would be to be able to play the story in their head like a movie. I can do this while reading a book and it helps me gather a better picture of the story. I can visualize exactly the way a character will look or how they walk. I consider myself a good reader because I have a little of all the qualities that Nabokov mentioned. Throughout the paper Nabokov put things that I knew in a new perspective. In his opinion the worst thing a reader can do is make themselves the hero or heroine. Sometimes I feel that is the point of a book, not of all books, but some. He also mention that there is 3 types of writers; story tellers, teachers, and enchanters. It was weird reading about that because it would seem that while reading a book it would be obvious to realize which of the three the author was trying to be. Yet, thinking back to the last book I read the author was a bit of all three. By Nabokov mentioning them I thought back and realized that most authors are all three, but usually dominated by one.
