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7145989 No.7145989 [Reply] [Original]

Is it just me or do we talk about this book a lot less than we used to?

What is your favorite cover?

>> No.7145991
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7145991

The Japanese cover is wack

>> No.7146086
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7146086

Reading this right now. I've read Lolita before, so I thought I'd read the annotated edition this time around. It's kind of tedious though, reading pages upon pages about how Nabokov referenced some 19th century work I've never heard of. I wonder if it really adds anything.

>> No.7146296
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7146296

If you like Lolita, read Ada or Ardor. It's the only other book I've read by Nabokov which has prose that matches up to Lolita.

>> No.7146304

>>7146296
would you recommend reading it before Pale Fire? I wasn't sure which one to check out next

>> No.7146318

>>7146304
Yes, I'd recommend it. Note that the first 4 chapters are quite dense, which can be off-putting at first, so if you're trying the book out make sure you continue for another few chapters.

>> No.7146320

>>7146296

That's a strange but good book. I'll have to re-read it sometime. What other classic novel has:

flying carpets
water powered telephones
dueling
incest
muslim invasions

?

>> No.7146360

>>7146320
herry potter

>> No.7146387
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7146387

oh man I loved One Hundred Years of Solitude

>> No.7146390
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>>7145989

Mah Corgi one.

>> No.7146392

>>7146387
>>7146320

>> No.7146865

>>7146296
that's a very pretty cover

>> No.7146883

>>7145989
If you like this book, then you are a closet pedo. I think the story was disgusting, would not read again.

>> No.7146888

>>7146086
This is the version that I read, and I'm glad I did, if only for the French.
Some of the notes at very insightful, the cover looks like shit though.

>> No.7146892

>>7146883

8/8 b8 m8

>> No.7146895

>>7146883
>reading for the story
See what you did wrong now? Fuck off, pleb.

>> No.7146896

>>7146892
I'm not even kidding.

>> No.7147181

>>7146883

>Not getting boners on Public transport reading Nabokov.

Pleb tbh.

>> No.7147211
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7147211

this is a poster for the movie but i prefer it to these covers

>> No.7147617

>>7145989
Nabokov said he hated that cover

>> No.7147643

>>7147181
>Reading on public transport
Pleb tbh

>> No.7147691

>>7147617
Probably cause she looks way too old to resemble the lolita in his mind

>> No.7147695

>>7146390
Clover thinks you're on my wifi

Explain urself fag

>> No.7147713

>>7147617
is there anything Nabokov didn't hate?

>> No.7147905

>>7146387
what was photoshopped out of there? hes holding something but the shoop is terible.

>> No.7147908

>>7145989
Is that a home made cover with Taylor Swift

>> No.7147922

>>7147905
its not shopped

>> No.7148025

>>7147922
Marquez is clearly holding something. it was taken out.

>i can tell because of the pixels

I can actually fucking tell when the clone stamp tool is used.

>> No.7148374

>>7146883

I know this is bait but I read Lolita a short while ago, and it seems to me that everyone who gets upset about this book has clearly never read it. The protagonist is a self-admitted pervert, but the sexual writing is done tastfully enough so that even the non pedos can appreciate it. And the protagonist condemns himself as a villain by the end anyway, so it doesn't even challenge traditional sexual mores.

You'd think with how taboo this book is that it'd have tried something like justifying pedophilia, but it doesn't even do that.

>> No.7148381

>>7148374
You underestimate the small mindedness of the general public.

>> No.7148385

>>7148025
its a photo from the 60s dude its unedited

>> No.7148404

>>7148025
it looks like a wine glass to me

>> No.7148429
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>>7148404
probably just doing one of his Colombian dances

>> No.7148514

>>7147691
No because he didnt want the focus of the cover to be of a "sexy" young girl. Its great literature, not smut after all

>> No.7148528

Here's a video of Nabokov talking about different Lolita covers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVtwVcYbz7k

>> No.7148536

>>7145991
>pronounced Ro-Riii-Ta

lmao nippon

>> No.7148561

The only prose better than this is Ada or Ardor.

>> No.7148696

I have the one with the legs on the cover. Pretty as fuck.

>> No.7149197
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7149197

I like both Pale Fire and Pnin better to be honest, though I think Lolita is a masterpiece as well.

Haven't read Ada yet, that one's next. Invitation to a Beheading was a little underwhelming.

>> No.7149203

>>7149197
wow
eww
wow

>> No.7149407

>>7147211
The best too. It is can be a lolipop where the stick penetrates the candy or panties and legs.

>> No.7149417

>>7145989
There's only so much to say about one book. What do you want, exactly?

>> No.7149454

>>7149417
favorite part, favorite prose excerpt, theories about which parts were made up by HH

>> No.7150059

>>7149407
yea, legitimately makes me uncomfortable but in a way i can appreciate

>> No.7150284

>>7149197
>>7147211

LE CLEVER COVER XD

>> No.7150285

>>7150284
pedo pls go

>> No.7150299

>>7147695

Look behind you.

>> No.7150561

>>7147713
Liberace's wardrobe?

>> No.7151244

>>7145989
she isnt blond

>> No.7151254
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7151254

This is the cover mine has, I don't like it.

>> No.7151270

>>7151244
says who? I certainly wouldn't trust HH to give the trust

>> No.7151329

>>7151254
Hahaha that is a pretty creepy cover, not the cool creepy either. Definitely adds to the stigma of reading the book in a really negative way