/lit/ - Literature

harold haze, tombstone arizona

What's it like collecting corpses?

>>10132356

I used to like Nabokov but now I know he is pretentious trash

>>10132356
I've tried to read Lolita, this sucks man. I prefer the ones in my native language, he did write simpler back then as well.

A Canticle for Leibowitz

>>10132508
You must disassociate an artist from his work.

>>10132356

>>10132531
You russian? Thoughts on Dostoe or Gogol being translated?

>>10132356
RINGS OF SATURN
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>>10132356
The Virtue of Selfishness

>>10132696
I've been thinking of getting that, what's so good about it?

>>10132576
Why?

>>10132356
Anything I've read other than Lolita. This includes Harry Potter.

>>10133003
It's a mix between a travel journal and history book, author just walks around England discussing random topics. A reviewer said he "wrote like a ghost"

>>10132356
All Quiet on the Western Front

>>10132531
That's because your native language is the language of superstitious alcoholic peasants. Lucky for you, the Americans on this board seem to have a fascination for all things which seem exotic from the standpoint of their own wretched culture, out of some sort of inferiority complex towards any people with perceived as having a richer history, tradition, ethnical cohesion (not that hard to find, really).

Frankenstein

>>10132356
Flowering Nettles

Bump and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

The tree of knowledge, by Pío Baroja and La sombra del ciprés es alargada, by Miguel Delibes

>>10133514
Good post

>>10132356
brandon sanderson - the way of kings

> firends pronounce loli "lahli," like a lollipop
> try to explain it's "lolee," because Lolita complex.
> geez anon, why do you know so much about loleys?

>>10134620
What kind of retarded pronounces lollipop as lahlipahp

>>10134627
The kind of people that act like children when sex comes up despite being in their 20s

>>10134627
it's got short uah sound in there, lälēˌpäp

>>10134639
>I've been saying lowlipop for all these years and nobody has bothered to correct me

Why is this world so cruel what else am I saying wrong

Op here. Lolita is in the dictionary and nabokov's name is too. Established himself as a master. The reason why I love this book so much is the way he tricks the reader in feeling sorry for Humbert Humbert, whereas he's basically a monster. And the word play is quite simply phenomenal. Pale Fire is equally good.

So said I had to stop to cry evrytime I really got into it

>>10136011
Quite honestly? I thought the movie was wayyyyy better than the book. Terrible writing. Same goes with The perks of being wallflower. The movie was good, the book was awful