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No one told me about the decline in quality after Haze dies. The road trip sections seem to drag endlessly.

>> No.11454100

the way i interpreted is was the first section was supposed to romanticize humbert's pedophilia and then to contrast it the harsh reality of fucking a captive orphaned kid

>> No.11454110

>>11454048
>reading lolita for the plot

>> No.11454112

>>11454100
Literally this.

>> No.11454117

How is this not considered child porn? Your house should be raided and you should be beheaded. It is easily a more grotesque depiction of some morbid, carnal desire for pedophilia. What the fuck is wrong with people?

>> No.11454120

>>11454100
this
but it is indeed fucking boring.

>> No.11454122

I crapped out after Dolores finally runs away. Thinking about rereading and finishing it though, I enjoyed the first half or so.

>> No.11454124

>>11454117
is this for real lol

>> No.11454125

>>11454048
I kinda agree with this. I also don't think Clare Quilty is that interesting, the book sort of loses narrative tension and momentum when it's focusing in the second half.

>>11454112
>>11454100
>>11454120
Congrats you read the book.

>> No.11454127

>>11454120
>>11454100
Everything that happens after Lolita escapes is the most kino part of the book by far

>> No.11454129

>>11454122
Him meeting her again years later is the best part of the book. You should read it again

>> No.11454378

Pleb
It’s a GOAT road trip novel

>> No.11455072 [DELETED] 

>>11454117
Years ago, people used to post CP on /b/. People still post lolicon drawings all the fucking time on other boards. It's perfectly legal to own depictions of fictional underage characters in sexual situations except for your Puritan/sharia law.
Writing about wanting to cum inside of a non-existent 12 year old's womb is nothing like actually having sex with a real life 12 year old girl. One of them doesn't affect the real world, and the other one does.
Stop being so fucking prudish.

>> No.11455087

>>11454117 #
Years ago, people used to post CP on /b/. People still post lolicon drawings all the fucking time on other boards. It's perfectly legal to own depictions of fictional underage characters in sexual situations except for in your Puritan/sharia law hellhole named America/the UK.
Writing about wanting to cum inside of a non-existent 12 year old's womb is nothing like actually having sex with a real life 12 year old girl. One of them doesn't affect the real world, and the other one does.
Stop being so fucking prudish.

>> No.11455772

Just finished reading. Where was it implied that Quilty was a child pornographer?

>>11454100
Internalising that insightful perspective and making it my own, thanks.

>>11454110
Part One's prose surpasses the second half's by a country mile, in any case.

>>11454125
>I also don't think Clare Quilty is that interesting
Agreed. Haze was a much more engaging antagonist.

>> No.11455783

>>11455772
what? dolores straight up tells hh that quilty was making the kids do shit and filming it

>> No.11455801

>>11454117
>How is this not considered child porn
The only erotic part of this book is how Nabokov makes love to the english language. If you think the child fucking was supposed to be hot then that’s on you.

>> No.11455909

>>11454048
Yeah, too much American landscape descriptions.

>> No.11456012

>>11454048
>>11454100
>>11454127
the fight between Humbert and Quilty is my favorite fight in literature

>> No.11456036

>>11454117
2020 initiative: 0+

>> No.11456211

ITT: brainlets reading lolita like an engaging action novel

>> No.11456282

>>11455783
>dolores straight up tells hh that quilty was making the kids do shit and filming it
Ah, for whatever reason I misread 'movie pictures'
In terms of a mirror to Humbert, I prefer Gaston to Quilty

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>>11454048
I thought the same thing op, the beginning of part 2 is boring, I had to skip 20 pages or so, because I wanted to see the ending, but couldn't bare anymore of, oh ya now we are in Kansas, and now Arizona, and now we are going backnow to do it all again.

>> No.11456509

>>11454048
Nabokov is pleb-tier literature. I'm happy you noticed: some of the other anons still think he's good. It's very sad.

>> No.11456741

i quite enjoyed quilty's antics.

>> No.11456847

>>11456509
But he is good. Just because you think it's not sikrit enough doesn't make his book any less of a really good piece of literature.

>> No.11456860

>>11454048
this book is about pedophilia and appeals to pedophiles. william s burroughs is the same way. there is no reason to read these works

>> No.11457323

>>11456860
I think if a pedophile read Lolita and understood it he would be left with a crushing sense of self-loathing, the book is vehemently anti-pedophilia

>> No.11457391

I'm too squeamish to read it.

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>>11454048
that's when it starts to get good, you brainlet pleb. Lo is suddenly and permanently zooming into hyperspace, hidden under a pedo's wing.