/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.3909301]

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[Anonymous No.3909303]

Well?

[Anonymous No.3909305]

>>3909301
Sell it to me.

[Anonymous No.3909310]

>>3909305
She's online.

'I booked a hotel,' I say. 'Near Marble Arch.'

'That sounds great, hon. I can't wait to see you.'

'Yeah. Me too.'

'I'm vaguely nervous.'

'Don't be.'

Do be. I'm a child.


Lolito is a love story about a fifteen year-old boy who meets a middle-aged woman on the internet.

When his long-term girlfriend and first love Alice, betrays him at a house party, Etgar goes looking for cyber solace in the arms of Macy, a stunning but bored housewife he meets online. What could possibly go wrong . . . ?

Hilarious, fearless and utterly outrageous, Lolito is a truly twenty-first century love story.

[Anonymous No.3909314]

My God, Brooks is a frightening young talent. In Lolito, he creates a multi-coloured, grubby little world that I'd really hate to read about if I was a parent. Magnetising, funny and disturbing, his prose is infectious and highly addictive. I loved it (Tim Key)

Lolito is the funniest, most horrible book I've read in years. I was blown away (Nick Cave)

I love Ben Brooks. And Lolito is really something else. A twisted age-gap love story that is deadpan and grubby and strangely poetic and funny and wrong and also very right. It is like how The Graduate would have ended up if Dustin Hoffman had watched a lot of Loose Women and drank Strongbow and spent too much time on the internet (Matt Haig)

Grow Up is absolutely knockout - Brooks has the timing of a genius stand-up comic. Top class (Richard Milward)

Ben Brooks is a magical imp who pumps out dark nuggets of poetry and makes you snort with laughter (Noel Fielding)

The most convincing portrayal of the adolescent mind since Vernon God Little (Ewan Morrison)

This is a totally convincing portrait of being a wayward teenager now, that only a teenager could have written (Dazed & Confused)

[Anonymous No.3909319]

ben pls

[Anonymous No.3909325]

/lit/ plz

[Anonymous No.3909326]

I'm not really interested in any story that describes itself as "outrageous"
sorry

[Anonymous No.3909327]

>>3909326
Lolita was described as"outrageous"
Lolita was a good book

[Anonymous No.3909328]

>>3909325
>that tattoo

[Anonymous No.3909335]

>>3909328
Th-thanks

[Anonymous No.3909341]

>>3909327
I don't think Nabokov said it was an outrageous book anywhere
I tried looking up an example and all I found was more evidence that Hollywood is full of pedophiles

[Anonymous No.3909343]

/lit/, you card

[Anonymous No.3909342]

>>3909341
Editors decide how to market the book + which terms (i.e. "outrageous) to use in order to do so

[Anonymous No.3909348]

>>3909343
All the classics

[Anonymous No.3909377]

>>3909335
Aren't you a little old to be emo?

[Anonymous No.3909429]

"Tao Lin-esque"

[Anonymous No.3909534]

Looks good

[Anonymous No.3909536]

All i have to say to ben brooks?

Throw the tao lin.

[Anonymous No.3909553]

Is this just like Boku no Pico: The Novelization?

[Anonymous No.3909565]

>>3909343
le alt-lit face

[Anonymous No.3909601]

>Lolito is a love story about a fifteen year-old boy who meets a middle-aged woman on the internet.

[Anonymous No.3909623]

>>3909536

[Applause]

[Anonymous No.3909638]

so it's basically a novelization of "hey kid wanna /s/"?

[Anonymous No.3909655]

>>3909601
So, by that logic, you wouldn't read Lolita?

Get the fuck off of /lit/.

[Anonymous No.3909695]

Because The Zombie Survival Guide was meh, and World War Z was bad, so I assume he's followed that downwards curve.