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Just finished reading this. Are there other books that are equally well written that you would recommend?

>> No.13509555

>>13508327
If by well written you mean written in a way as to purposefully be overly purple and pretentious in an attempt for the author to hide his need for intellectual acknowledgement and ostentatious nature then I recommend pale fire and invitation to a beheading in fact just anything else by Nabokov

>> No.13509579

>>13508327
Well written? That’s the entire point, Humbert (Humbert) writes in such a way to impress you, a man reading. His delicate turn of phrase, his “rational” attraction, justified in his youth and brought to fruition with that same rational is all made to seduce you the reader (probably a man). I found the book to be all about male sexuality, how we work, seduce, justify, revel in débauchery we can convince others is not. It’s. Fun read absolutely, but -why- did you find it so entertaining or engaging?

That’s what I feel Nabakov was going for anyway, but I was young when I read it. You could try reading Pale Fire but I doubt you’d get very far. I’ve heard good things about Ada, or Ardor.

>> No.13509713

>>13509579
I thought a majority of the sentences were expressed in creative ways, which I really enjoyed. Was looking for books with similear writing style.

>> No.13509724

>>13508327
Lolita should be read twice in succession to truly make sense

>>13509579
its a book about how trying to project a constructed narrative using aesthetics onto reality is not real art, only a farce. And that truly great literature is outside of the realm of reality, Nabby believed that literatures goals should be to enchant and deceive its readers. And this is what Lolita does. HHs eloquence is only one part of the whole game though, the whole book is set up so as to guide you into false interpretations and narratives, because in the end you should realise that the whole novel is about you figuring out how its trying to deceive you into these aesthetical and ethical dead ends

>> No.13509728
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13509728

Can anyone provide logical and rational arguments as to why a 21 year-old healthy male like me shouldn't enter a consensual relationship with a 15 year-old that wears booty shorts?

>> No.13509732
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13509732

>>13508327

>> No.13509734

>>13509724
this is why it should be read more than once, but i just spoiled the whole thing for OP

>> No.13509779

>>13509728
Even on the slim chance it's actually consensual, you're still giving her the ability to stab you in the back and completely ruin your life at any time in the future.
Don't fucking do it mate.

>> No.13509791

>>13509728
She wasn't 15 in the book

>> No.13509802

>>13509579
>You could try reading Pale Fire but I doubt you’d get very far.
Is this a dare?

>> No.13509837

>>13509791
She was near the end. I think they started fucking when she was 14. It was on a trip to America in a hotel when Dolores first seduced him to sex.

>> No.13509843

>>13509837
She was like 17 or something at the end.

>> No.13509940

>>13508327
just go marquis de sade already

>> No.13509953

>>13509555
Invitation to a beheading isn’t nearly as polished or pretentious and is actually Nabokov’s magnum opus. A work that actually comes across as his most personal and has a correct balance between complicated prose and simplicity.

>> No.13510504

>>13509579
>His delicate turn of phrase, his “rational” attraction, justified in his youth and brought to fruition with that same rational is all made to seduce you the reader (probably a man).
It didn't. There's something wrong with you, m8.

>> No.13510861

>>13508327
Self-centred garbage.

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13510879

>he thinks lolita was well written

>> No.13511049

>>13509802
If you’d like to take it as a challenge I’d invite you. Wouldn’t really be “showing me “, it’s just a dense piece of literature, well crafted in its approach, but I’d rather read an actual literary poem desu.

>>13510504
lol brain let criticizing subjective interpretation and projecting hard on my analysis. If you aren’t dazzled and seduced by Humbert’s playful banter, maybe you don’t like prose? As to the peadophilia itself, I’m not a school marm, so I don’t hold appreciating subject matter to innately speak for some sort of mental sickness. Maybe you
Need to lighten up a little?

>> No.13511291

>>13509555
Nabokov's Transparent Things essentially feels like a prequel to Lolita

>> No.13511296

>>13508327
It's not his best novel. Read more Nabokov.

>> No.13511458

>>13509728
only an american would argue against that

>> No.13511754

>>13510861
What books do you enjoy?

>> No.13512391

ITT: an obviously well-written novel renounced by actual pedos out of their own sexual guilt

>> No.13512671

>>13509713
Same here, his prose is really good