/lit/ - Literature

I only ever watched movies I thought book were for fags, but one of you guys recommended this book to me last week and I never knew books could be this good! You guys have any other books like this one to recommend for me? Please keep in mind I’m from /tv/ and have very specific tastes.

How in the ever-living "*FUCK*" was this allowed to be published originally, how in the ever-living FUCK is it still allowed to be on shelves, and why are all the readers and fans and talker-abouts this book not in jail for being fucking perverts? This is a sick fucking world we live in.

Lolita (Nabokov) discussion?

Do you consider Humbert a villain?

>>6369160

Well /int/, I finished the first part of the book (there are 2 parts). I took some time to read it because I am reading in English - which is not my mother tongue.

Overall, it is what I expected: many pedophile references and many, MANY french words.

Anyone else read it already?

I am starting to read this piece of cake. What should I expect?

Is there a single morally sound character in this whole book?

>>6112192
I like this one

Just starting Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. Thoughts on this book? The writing is gorgeous so far.

>>5911002
>not posting this edition

>>5868845
>I'm sorry Spongebob, but Gary's with me now, you had your chance and you failed. You have to stop living in the past. Face it Spongebob, you're only hurting yourself, it's what Gary wants, and what Gary wants is me! Right Gary? Huh?

So /lit/, what's your opinions on this book?
pls respond

Just finished Lolita about an hour ago

I'm kind of ambivalent to how I feel about it. I really liked the first ~120 pages, then I felt like the middle kind of dragged, but picked back up after Part II began.

I thought it was really well written, and it definitely expanded my vocabulary and dusted off my French a little bit, as well.

I mean there's lots of pretty words, and at some points I even sympathized with HH, but I kind of felt the ending with CQ was kind of hamfisted in.
I don't know, maybe I just need to let it digest, or it'll benefit from a re-read in a year or two.

What's everyone's thoughts on this "classic"? Favorite parts or lines?

This is a good one.

ITT: Audiobooks that are better experiences than the books.

So /lit/ worships this book like it should be worshipped, right, we don't have contrarians that dislike it just to be special snowflakes? Because they think disliking critically acclaimed and amazing books is edgy and makes them smarter?

No one on /lit/ is like that, right?

>>4509784
>>4509786
Yeah, forgot the image

How do I buy this without looking like a pedo creep?

>Hey Anon, whatcha reading?
>L-L-Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
>Oh, I haven't read that one. What's it about?
>__________

What do you say /lit/?

any other stories that have nymphets in them?

*ahem*