I believe Nabokov thinks a good reader is someone who has a creative mind. Someone who can open their mind to new experiences and can see things from a different light. Someone who reads something more than once to get the full picture of what the author is trying to say. He believes a reader that just allows their reading to be similar to their own life experiences, is really not a good reader at all.
I agree with some of Nabokov’s point of views; reading with an opened mind and being a re-reader. However, I love reading and believe that being a good reader involves understanding what the author is saying, feeling, and able to put it towards your own life experiences. You are so into what the character is going through, that you know how they feel. You can imagine sitting there in the room with them. What they look like and what there surroundings look like.
As I said before, I love reading. Now whether or not I’m a good reader is another story. For me to enjoy reading, the book has to be entertaining. If I don’t enjoy what I’m reading, I find my mind drifting off to other things; did I pay this bill or should I do laundry. Then I find myself reading the same line over and over. But if I am reading something of interest, I can’t put the book down.