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The fuck did I just read?

I hate Dolores Haze

ITT: We blurb an entire book in 10 words or less.
I'll start.

Lolita - Pedophile strikes gold and goes on cross country adventure.

I cried several times during the course of this book. I almost stopped because I knew there could be no way for H.H. to have a happy life with Lo, and I felt so attached to that relationship not because I too am attracted to Nymphets, but it reminded me so much of my first love.

This is the first book that's left me emotionally crippled upon completion. I started digging through old journal entries, photos, and gifts that all relate to my first love. I haven't really eaten well in a few days and I've been eating muscle relaxers and drinking wine. I'm not trying to be an edgelord. This book just genuinely fucked me up and made me realize I had never dealt with that part of my life. I don't even know why I'm telling you all this, you most likely don't care or will call me a faggot. That's fine. I just have no one else to discuss this book with and I don't know where to reach out to.

Fuck you Nabokov. I wasn't ready for these feels.

>I stood listening to that musical vibration from my lofty slope, to those flashes of separate cries with a kind of demure murmur for background, and then I knew that the hopelessly poignant thing was not Lolita’s absence from my side, but the absence of her voice from that concord.

i cried

Is it written in flawless English? I wonder how he, being a non-native speaker, managed to achieve such a level of proficiency.

Will it give me a boner?

So how bout all that cuckolding in the last half?

Jesus fucking christ I dont remember all this cuck shit in this book when I skimmed through it in my youth.

This.
Followed by Dorian Gray

How are readers supposed to interpret the Quilty scene at the end of Lolita? It seemed like an extremely bizarre ending, what with this huge significance placed on a character that wasn't introduced until the very end.

I think I understood Quilty as a sort of mirror image of Humbert Humbert, where Humbert channeled all of his self-loathing into his depiction of Quilty. I don't know the whole scene left me disoriented and confused. Thoughts? Other good books with "final boss" characters?

Am I a pedophile if I read this?

>Get to the end of the book
>Humbert says he doesn't want the book published until after both he *and* Lolita are dead
>But wait a minute, if it can't be published until Lolita is dead, doesn't that destroy the whole metafictional conceit that this was published contemporaneously?
>Go back and read the foreword
>Oh.
>Cry bitch tears as the full weight of the entire story hits me

Plebness aside, what do you think of this novel?

>Oh Hi Anon, what's your book about?

How do you reply?

What's the best Lolita version?
I might cop that 50th anniversary version here
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Lolita-Nabokov/9780679723165
Or should I buy the annotated one?
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Annotated-Lolita-Annotated-edition-Vladimir-Nabokov/9780141185040

Just started Lolita. Nabokov is amazing.

I can find multiple versions of this book, with various amount of pages. Are there actual multiple versions, as in, is there more content in one than in another?

I realise there's an "annotated" version which, obviously, contains annotations. But aside from that, are there versions with varying content?

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

Lolita.

I have seen numerous threads about it, some posts by people who tell they read it in public. With many disapproving looks at them.
I have never read the book myself, I do wonder if it's really that 'propedophilic'?
I'm 18 years old, I live in Holland and I can't imagine people looking at me and think "That kid is going to rape my daughter".
All the commotion about it does make me interested, if I wasn't reading two books already I would've picked it up at the library yesterday.

Are there any other 'wrong' novels? What's your experience with reading such books in public?

I picked up this book today.

I feel sick reading it (about 1/3rds through).

Is this book just written for pedos or some shit? I see absolutely no literary value to it.

Ugh.

What other books are there with similar themes to Lolita?

ie. a man and a girl falling in love or in a relationship that is consensual.

Banned books discussion time.
Pic related, I'm reading it now.

shamelessly self-bumping

<--------- another book I enjoyed

It this good? Have you read it? Did you have an erection? Did you fap afterwards?