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21913055 No.21913055 [Reply] [Original]

this is fucking overrated, so much wasted space for so little action

>> No.21913333
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>>21913055

>> No.21913342

>>21913055
I agree one hundred percent.

>> No.21913365

>>21913055
care to give actual criticisms anon? Or are you just going to say "book bad"

>> No.21913459

>>21913055
It has murder, rape, prostitution, kidnapping, and the most detailed exploration of a depraved mind in literature, and you found it boring? Maybe literature isn't for you, kiddo.

>> No.21913517

>>21913459
I like the book well enough but I feel like HH is too deliberately artificial for it to be anything more than a superficial "exploration of a depraved mind." I don't think the "point" inasmuch as there is one is to understand evil better through Humbert.

>> No.21914303

>>21913055
>action
Does every book you read need wild, novel events with outlandish characters doing unrealistic things? Why not just enjoy something cerebral?

>> No.21914394

Books dont have pictures

>> No.21914397

>>21913055
1st part is great. 2nd part DRAGS and has lots of filler, especially all the road shit.

>> No.21914423

>>21914397
weak bait

>> No.21914779

>>21913055
You read Nabokov for the beautiful prose and wordplay. Want action? Read fiction with that for a premise.

>> No.21914935

>>21913055
your opinion is trash.

>> No.21914941

Well duh, depravity has always been nothing but boring because it is the default way of being human. This book is one of those comforting hugs telling you that it‘s ok to be trash and ofc people lap that up like it is the nectar of the gods.

>> No.21914942

>>21914303
>novel events
It's a novel, yes.

>> No.21914951

>>21914942
Hello dad

>> No.21914991

>>21914951
Maybe not ADHD need for action but every good has to have novelty.

>> No.21914998

>>21914991
Not necessarily. Novelty is for entertainment, and as we know, there is not much new under the sun. Sometimes people write and read for comfort, and then it is more suitable to stick with the predictable and known. Then it is more about generating a certain scene to evoke particular emotions, memories or just feeling seen. It‘s the difference between a reader thinking „oh shit, i was not expecting THAT“ and „wow, i have always felt that way but i never put it into words so specific and fitting.“

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>>21913055
Almost halfway through it now, and it's engaging enough. Just find it hilarious Nabokov bashed Faulkner. Faulkner's mythic madman style dwarfed Nabokov's cooly cerebral passable prose.

>> No.21915086

its the book for moody 16 year old girls stuck on tumblr for a reason

>> No.21915091

>>21914998
That's still novelty and that is what I meant by it.

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>>21915091
Fair enough.
>>21915086
The reason being daddy issues.