/lit/ - Literature

>>11952541
I honestly don't get the hype.

>>11952541
Nah

nah, just read 4chan all day like a useless piece of shit instead!!

It's a well written fap fantasy. Great prose, but essentially Twilight for middle aged perverts

Only if you get aroused at the thought of a tanned young girls lips caressing your penis

>>11952561
same

A great novel by the greatest author ever so yeah.

the greatest problem I have is what copy to buy

>>11952541
Nah, Nabokov is one of the most overrated writers ever. He is probably the most pretentious twat you could ever read. But it's so fake and phony. Dude reads like he had a dictionary open at all times and chose all the weirdest words he could find and just mixed them in. Totally unnatural. A huge phony.

>>11952570
t. freshman in college who has only read 2 books.

>>11952595
Those are all creepy and disgusting. Fuck this world. All copies of that book should be burned. Fucking perverted trash. Most acceptable would maybe be the one on the far-left. Avoid reading that shit in public. You'll look like a fucking weirdo, which you probably are if you're reading that book. Pick up a Bible instead, pal.

>>11952602
nice bait mate

>>11952602
>he cares about what npcs "think" of him and isn't living his life as a bizarre experiment on how to be a parody of yourself

>>11952602
Can guarantee I've read more books than you, buddy boy. Pale Fire is the best book of last century.

>>11952622
>Pale Fire is the best book of last century.

>>11952595
2015 is the most aesthetically pleasing but will probably get you weird stares in public. 2007 looks like some tumblr shit but it's still better than the other three

>>11952644
this will be at the top of the list of books I wont read in public

>>11952595
the 2005 cover does look nice and not so dirty and taboo like the other ones.I just hope for you that you will never read the book outside.

>>11952595
The annotated Lolita. It has a butterfly on the cover.

>>11952595
2007 is the only one with brown hair, which Lolita has in the actual book. Also looks like inoffensive chick-lit to a random passerby.

>>11952803
I mean 2005 also looks inoffensive and you cant see the hair or the shit tier art

>>11952644
>>11952740
>>11952803
>thinking that people give a shit about what you're reading in public
Grow some balls.

>>11952595
buy the annotated one, its got a butterfly on the cover

>>11952602
>Fuck this world. All copies of that book should be burned. Fucking perverted trash.
Absolutely based. Agreed 100%.

>>11952602
lmao honestly thinking that lolita is perverted in the slightest is extremely retarded

>>11952917
Based on all the deprived comments I always see in threads about it, it clearly is.

>>11952928
equating the book with the autists here who meme it to death is also extremely retarded

>>11952595
Everymans library version.

>>11952595
>when you don't even have the option to get a good cover

LMAO

>>11952958
personally I think 2005's is a great cover

>>11952917
It's a book about a young girl who is kidnapped of and serially raped by an old man. There are pages and pages of creepy descriptions of her. Yes, he avoids much of the sex talk, which is a good thing, but it's so obvious what is going on. Need I give examples? How about the bargaining of money for blowjobs? The book is fucking sick and it takes a pervert to write it. Just like it took a pervert to write Death in Venice (Mann admitted to being sexually attracted to his own boy son; I'm sure Nabokov was just more clever about admitting to his own perversion, he hid in plain sight though). Anyone who reads this book is probably a sick-minded atheist. I read it when I was seventeen. I didn't know, anon. I don't know.. please avoid that shit. Spare yourself the vivid hallucinations of a child rape. Read something wholesome and heroic, not the depraved and debased raving of a pretentious twat of a man.

Pic related is Jesus BTFOing all perverts ITT.

Also >>11952622
cringe.

>>11952595
Get the Everyman copy faggot. The hardcover is not going to fall apart after a few years.

>>11953048
nah senpai I got the 2005

>>11953057
Well you can always use inferior paper as toilet paper once the glue from the binding starts to crack.

>>11953064
so be it

>>11953042
i love how if a book is not some didactic bullshit excercise you autists instantly jump on it and spew stupid faggotry, lolita is not perverted at all, i know its hard to grasp without some cliché moral message pushed in your face at the end

>>11953042
t. Quasi-pseud NPC.
Cringe.

>>11953042
Great post. Nabokov irreversibly blown the fuck out.

>>11953042
Based Christ LARPer making his kin look ridiculous.

>>11952602
>has to choose between the bible and lolita

>>11953087
This post is hitting levels of undergraduate that shouldn't even be possible

>>11953326
This post is hitting levels of undergraduate that shouldn't even be possible

>>11953326
>reading lolita as pornography
thats below undergraduate

>>11952541
It's decent, if you want to read about absolute degeneracy I'd recommend you give it a shot before you swap over to Marquis de Sade.

>>11953332
>not recognising Lolita for what it is
When do you graduate dude?

>>11953130
That makes me want to be a Christian. The milquetoast "yeah, I'm down with the kids but let me tell you bout JESUS" type Christians are what are pure cringe.

>>11953379
lmao imagine being this retarded

>>11953977
Don't worry, one day you'll grow out of your 'Nabokov is like the greatest writer ever dude' phase and see him for the pandering trash he is

Fuck I remember reading that book in my university library. I had a coffee at McDonald's and they had that strange "get a prize" gimmick going on. I got a small ticket with a promo-code to get a free ebook on some obscure site. I was sitting in this library one day, trying to understand Kant's critique and occasionally chatting with a law student who got a stack of Latin textbooks, when I remembered about the ticket. I got onto a public computer, next to a window overlooking my campus and logged in to get a free ebook. They had a small selection of available ones, but eventually I stopped on Lolita, drawn by the name of its famous author, Nabokov. I sat there in silence, reading with my eyes wide, for 5 or 6 hours, while the world outside turned grey, rain caressing my ears with its soft drumming on that damn window. Eventually I shut the computer down and left for home, promising myself to never open that book ever again.

>>11952541
I say yes, but you only really need to read 50% or 75% ... It is really well written, and obviously the theme is interesting

>>11954912
> ebook

>>11952595
everyman's library

>google greatest novels 20th century
>open all links
>search for "lolita" in every one
>always appears
seems legit

>>11952557
its actually perfectly suited for stuck-up tweens with older men fantasy like those low intellect k-pop fans.
felt super gay and cringy to read it as a grown men

It's good and the prise really carries it.
But I feel like it dropped in quality lot when they went on their fucking-cruise cross-country.
It's just not that magical anymore.

>>11954012
i never said hes the greatest writer ever dude, but reading lolita as a pedo fantasy is completely missing the point

>>11952541
read up until they start travelling around the country

its all downhill from there

>>11952595

>>11956724
It is a pedo fantasy, but he deliberately put enough ambiguity in so he could get away with it and pseuds could stroke their chins and say 'ahh, haktuwally it's Literature and not grubby fap-fest'. It's literally shallower than meets the eye.
This is why its babby's first 'complex' book. Its the sort of novel someone like Bono would say is his favorite because he thinks it makes him sound clever because he thinks he's seen through the initial impression to read between the lines, even though the initial impression is accurate.

>>11956739
Isn't this just a fanmade version?

>>11956748
Pedophilia is complex in itself as long as it's not just gay shit.

>>11956748
lol he could have easily wrote a clear-cut pedo fantasy if that would have been his intention

>>11956748
neither impressions are correct, thats the whole point

>>11956763
>>11956779
You see *sniff* there is an old joke that the priest on the train is reading Proust, but inside the Proust is concealed a copy of playboy, *sniff* and the revolutionary sat next to the priest is reading a Playboy, but inside the Playboy he is secretly reading Proust. The reader of Lolita *scratches nose* has a copy of Playboy inside a Proust concealed by a Playboy. Because he would never admit to reading Playboy, so he says 'Don't worry, inside my Playboy is Proust!'

>>11952541
I want to start reading Nabokov. Is it better to start with this or Ada?

>>11953048
The everyman copy is glued in tho, its even worse than a paperback

>>11952542
Thots adore this book more than nigger dick.

>>11956857
theres like one scene to fap to, and even thats a stretch

>>11957453
>I... I r... read it for the articles

>>11957507
lmao you can be a pseud without being this self-conscious

>>11952557
Yep
>It is clever but it cannot last. Her admirers — middle aged men and clergymen — respond to her dubious coquetry, to the sight of her well-shaped and desirable little body, packed with enormous vitality, only because the safety curtain of story and dialogue drops between their intelligence and their desire.