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I've finished reading Lolita and subsequently watched the 1997 movie rendition, and it was heart-wrenching. Problem is I have no lead on what to read next, and I'd like some based (nonpartison) recommendations

>> No.11628195

bump

>> No.11629363

Pale Fire

>> No.11629449

>>11628174
Watch the movie from the 60s.

>> No.11630113

Why wouldn't you watch the Kubrick version? I didn't even know there was another movie.

>> No.11630130

>>11630113
1997 is closer to the books core themes. Kubrick took the 'humorous' elements of the book and emphasises them, to the extent that he loses the tragedy of the book.

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>>11628174
Read Frisk by Dennis Cooper. Along with Lolita, it's the only novel thus far to give me the same sense of sickening, gut-wrenching delight. I feel as though I read it in a haze. A warning though: it's a very confronting read.

>> No.11630159

>>11630130
Ah thanks for this.

Don't see myself watching either desu, but if I do it'll be the 1997 film.