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30 pages in, why didn’t you guys tell me this book is fucking hilarious.

>> No.10830110

You didn't ask.

>> No.10830111

It's fucking hilarious

>> No.10830676

Make sure to go back and read the introduction when you're done.

>> No.10830699

You don't answer my calls

>> No.10830738

it gets funnier and then less

>> No.10830815

>reads 30 pages
>must make a thread on 4chan

Why bother reading you stupid pleb?

>> No.10830822

>>10830100
>mfw the russian leaves his cigarette in H's toilet

>> No.10830836

>...she died of typhus in Corfu
Is a devastatingly sad line because it comes in the middle of all the lightness and humour of the first ~90 pages. He really knew his shit.

>> No.10831443

>>10830100
Nabokov is usually hilarious, even when he's being great in other ways. The conversations in Ada are just awesome dry wit.

>> No.10831471

>>10830100
Because it really isn't.

>> No.10832154

Nabokov singlehandedly killed the name "Lolita" for parents all over the world. There are probably more guys called Adolf than girls called Lolita.

>> No.10832213

>>10830100
Because by the end of the books its mostly just crushingly sad.

>> No.10832258

(Picnic, lighting)

>> No.10832267

>>10832154
In Spanish you at -ita to the end of female words to make them cute, little or junior. So someone who's name is Lola is also Lolita.

>> No.10832270

It's fucking hilarious.

>> No.10832277

>>10832154
fr, I fucking love the name but it's taboo now
>>10832213
Only sad for Lolita, Humbert doesn't deserve empathy

>> No.10832312

>>10830100

Not OP, but seriously, Lolita is one of the funniest books I have ever read. It beats almost all of the stand-up comedians. The guy just piles one joke after another, nonstop. I don’t know any other book that actually makes ones kidneys hurt with belly laughs, that makes one cry with laughter. Nabokov really had a genius for comedy.

I advice all of you to read the letter he wrote when he suffered from food poisoning. He made of that completely terrible experience an enormous comic prose-poem.

However, as many Anons have pointed out, in the end all of the narrative threads lead toward the final knot that is intensely heartbreaking. The final know of the book makes of feel knots chocking ones throat and heart.

>> No.10832322

>>10832154

Lolita is the diminutive form of Dolores. Which is a Spanish name and is used mainly in Spanish-speaking territories, anyway.

>> No.10832342

>>10830100
because its already classified as a tragicomedy?

>> No.10832741

>>10832277
>Only sad for Lolita, Humbert doesn't deserve empathy
I agree, and that's what I meant

>> No.10832927

>>10830100
Nonce

>> No.10832937

>>10832277
But the entire thing has us uncomfortably sympathizing for Humbert

>> No.10833011

im afraid to buy this gook

>> No.10833024

>>10833011
Are you in Thailand?

>> No.10833191

>>10832937
Only if you let him. I feel like his whole character is a trick by Nabokov
He purposefully bends things to his benefit, making him see sympathetic, when in reality he's a monster

>> No.10833242

>>10832267
the suffix -ita/ito means small
abuela -grandmother
abuelita - small grandmother
abuelo - grandfather
abuelito - small grandfather
where -O means masculine and -A means feminine

>> No.10833295

>>10830676
Just finished last night, thanks for that

>> No.10833485

>>10830100
It's a great crack

>> No.10834106

>>10833242
the suffix ito/ita are used to make something small or cute; either is correct.

>> No.10834876

>>10834106
oh okay, Spanish is my second language. thankyou anonita

>> No.10835221

I want to read it but I'm scared of going down a dark path again if you get me. I'm mentally healthy now but what if this brings out those thoughts again.

>> No.10835997

overrated desu. Decent prose overall, excellent at times, but aside from that and muh pedophilia, meh

>> No.10836061

>>10832258
Hey Nick Mount

>> No.10836199

>>10830100
What's so funny? I thought the entire first volume was boring and couldn't even keep interest up. Ended up missing most of it. Second vol was good though

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>>10830100
Sorry, we've been trying to keep that one on under the covers. We don't want people talking about it too much.

(One of the most read books from the 20th Century)

>> No.10837106

>>10835997
The prose is great, not decent. You sound like a pseudo-intellectual.

>> No.10837204

The roadtrip parts went on too long, especially the second one I was having to force myself through it
Excellent otherwise

>> No.10838713

>>10835997
Hmmm