/lit/ - Literature

>"It's very simple stuff with no literary ambition that I can see," he complained in an interview with The Times. "I don't mean to be overly critical but in terms of literary history, it does seem a bit of a regression."
>"if you consider that Nabokov's Lolita was on the New York Times bestseller list for nine months, it's a different order of literature".

Well /lit/, is he right?