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/sqt/ - Stupid Questions Thread Anonymous Wed May 13 06:06:41 2020 No.15351933 [Reply] [Original]

Is this a hard book for non-Anglos?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 06:09:17 2020 No.15351949 I doubt it. Delillo's prose can be wordy but it's never really difficult. Just be patient and you should be ok.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 08:03:44 2020 No.15352495 >>15351933 >>15351949 Agreed, unless you mean culturally, which maybe if you're lucky this book will seem weird and foreign conceptually.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 08:11:51 2020 No.15352541 File: 440 KB, 1523x2339, 8100WmCA1dL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15351933 I don't get it. Why was it supposed to be so obvious it was Clare Quilty that took her? I only read it once because my sister took it but still.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 11:30:34 2020 No.15353576 >>15352541 The irony at the end is that Humbert Humbert believes himself a master manipulator and predator but it is Quilty and Dolores who pull one over on him and use his naivety to his advantage. That is the message of Lolita.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 11:31:41 2020 No.15353591 >>15351933 I don't think it would be, but I'd recommend Libra from DeLillo first.