/lit/ - Literature

What about you, /lit/?

Are there any book ideas left unexplored in the modern world? It seems like every novel I finish writing I find a popular book just like it that was already published a century ago. It's especially frustrating because I spent hours and hours thinking all of this stuff up and trying my hardest to be original only for these ideas to appear in a much superior classic.

Just started reading this, what am I in for?

I'm quite positive that there's gonna be somewhat disturbing shit in it, but is it really that fucked or just 'average level' disusting?

Just for reference, I got it in the original English version

What the fuck is this garbage and why is everyone praising it? I swear to god this I won't listen to you degenerates ever again.

Why is it that so many women put it in their personal top 5?

I'm of the honest opinion that Humbert did literally NOTHING wrong

change my opinion.

thoughts on this classic piece of literature, /lit/?

>>10297844
I'm not a pedophile, so naturally, just listening to the guy be, as he was intended to be, a sleazeball, was hard, especially because he was so good at it.

>>10201477

That it is the desperate and hopeless contemplation of something beautiful, beyond any sense of morality and beyond any possible reach.
And that it is completely unintelligible to women.

is it worth reading or is it all hype?

> Lolita is a french novel because its first print was published in Paris
> I don't care it was written in English by one of Russia's greatest
> it's French literature

Are frogs this desperate to have something of value for the world?

Why do women like Lolita so much?

This is it for me. Sombrero Fallout I also got a good laugh from, and it's short enough to be read in one little session.

>>8601681
>A good basic acid test for whether any piece of literature could ever in principle be art is whether your parents would feel ashamed of you if they saw you reading it

hurrr

>only have time to read on my phone in public
>can't read this without getting an erection
it's not fair

what did he see in her

I've heard very much about it, as it is seen as a classic. What's so great about it?

>>8367625

For real, what the fuck was this shit? I don't care if it's by Nabokov it was shit. Bulgakov was a better writer.

What's with the hype about Lolita? Why do so many people like that book? I honestly don't understand the appeal.

what the FUCK is up with that disgusting pedo scene and the leg orgasm thing or whatever? why did Vladimir Nabokov write that depraved lunacy?