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618621 No.618621 [Reply] [Original]

Hey, fags. I just finished this book. I thought it was pretty great. Humorous throughout but shit got real when it needed to. What did you think?

>> No.618626

Fucking cockteasing piece of shit book.

>> No.618633

>>618626

Hey, it pretty much says right in the foreward that it's not gonna get explicit. Still... several boners were had.

>> No.618645

>>618633
Lolita never really turned me on, but I guess it's different for me as a female...

Ada, though... hot underaged incest
I am thoroughly ashamed.

>> No.618659

constant boners impeded my furious efforts to finish this book

will try again when I'm senile and impotent.

>> No.618675

>>618645

I officially have added this book to my summer reading list. :D

>> No.618676

>>618621


Some of the best prose I have ever read is in that book.

>> No.618683

I love how Nabokov made me go from hating to loving Humbert.

>> No.618684

>>618633

I joke. Fantastic book. I have reread it many times. It's beautifully written and there are many secret little nuggets of joy. ie. Soda pop. 1, Dolores (Dolorous) Haze etc.

>> No.618696

>>618684
Yeah, loved the tons of little jokes and puns sprinkled throughout.

>> No.618699

>>618675
Way to go! Ada needs to be read more. As I was reading it, this site helped me out SO MUCH.

http://www.ada.auckland.ac.nz/

>> No.618730

>>618699

Oh wow! Many thanks for the link.

>> No.618742

>>618730

No problem. I'd buy a hard copy, though, just because it's pretty dense, and I'd imagine reading something that long and complicated (I had to go back and reread a good bit) would be frustrating online. But the annotations are fantastic and highly informative.

>> No.618745

It's extremely disturbing, given its subject matter. I admire Nabokov for being able to write so frankly about some of the most fucked up shit I've ever read.

Not only that, but he wrote it extremely well. The result is a deeply disturbing book that, strangely enough, you can't put down.

Kind of like 4chan.

>> No.618766

>>618676
+1

>> No.618777

cool book, but shit never really "got real." Only time it was semi-realistic (aside from the pedo parts for you) was when he was half-ass killing the dood at the end.

>> No.618814

>>618777

When he finally found her again and she was all pregnant and living in a shithole because of him fucking up her childhood? I'd say that shit was pretty real.

>>618696

Only problem is I don't, like, speak French... so... yeah. Other than that those little bit were great.