Meme? Book for pedophiles to validate themselves? Great work of art? Provocative and insightful philosophy?

Meme? Book for pedophiles to validate themselves? Great work of art? Provocative and insightful philosophy?

What's your take on Nabokov's "Lolita"?

It's shit, that's what it is. Nabokov should have been lined up and shot.

Are there any specific reasons, or just
>muh taboo

NOBODY CARES PEDO

Eh, it's okay.
Kubrick's movie made me appreciate it more.

It's not even that taboo. The age of consent has historically been low-nonexistent. It's just style over substance, and even then the style is overrated. Creepy prolefeed for hipster pseuds (sorry for the pleonasm). Nothing remotely insightful about it.

It's just a pretty good book about a pretty likeable terrible man.

>validate pedos
I really don't understand why pedos would/or currently believe that Lolita promotes pedophilia
the ending is a disastrous failure for both characters and the only reason that humburger liked Lolita was because he was traumatized from childhood and couldn't get over his first love.

What the fuck is wrong with Veeky Forums today? 20th century English prose didn't get much better than Lolita. It's unbelievably well-written

That's where you're wrong, Jeff. Lolita was terribly unwell-written. You should feel ashamed, Jeff.

This is exactly how I felt about it. I just felt sad for everyone involved. It's not really pro anything, it's more like watching a train wreck in slow motion, gut wrenching.

Lolita is a great book, as are all of Nabokov's books. He has an extremely unreliable narrator, its crazy how unreliable HH is to himself and everyone around him.

>you should read it and make you own opinion of the work, as if you attempt to talk about it on this board you will just get called a pedo, but 17-20 year old liberal weebs. Regardless, it is good writing and should be recognized.

>but 17-20
I meant "by"

LOOK AT THIS TANGLE OF THORNS

IT'S EXCELLENT

The best parts are when he first sees Lolita and then when he revisits her when she's about to marry.

Don't shout at me, Jeff. I don't like that. Now, let me take a look at this picture you brought...

...
Hmmm...
...
What the...
...

*shakes head*

It's not looking good, Jeff. "Lo-lee-ta". What the fuck does that mean? Who writes like that? Fucking weirdos, that's who. I trust that you're not a weirdo, Jeff. Maybe you need stronger glasses or your medication ran out. Either way, I want you to see a doctor. Use my guy -- he's not Jewish, so he won't charge an arm and a leg for using the waiting room. I believe in you, Jeff. I want you to get better. We both know that you're better than this. See the doctor and when you come back the Veeky Forums family will be here to greet you.

fuck off moralfags, book is great

tfw pedo

dude you're a fag, this godfather schtick is faggy, the prose is good, it's creative and well executed, stop being such a sissy about the subject matter

I've wanted this book for a while but don't want to buy it myself.

>dude
>fag this, fag that
>sissy
Yes, clearly your advice should be sought on these mattters. Stop projecting, kid.

Then just download it you're on the internet

Nabokov itself is the meme. His writing is a stylistic horror and the content is boring and trivial. It's why California is such a shithole. Although that might be a chicken and egg dilemma.

ironic

>you're on the internet
No, I actually have to hand write posts then mail them in to gookmoot.

Kubrick’s movie is shit.

>His writing is a stylistic horror
Imagine actually being this tasteless

This is the best post. This is also why the movie was shit. They didn’t include any of this.

Peter Sellers was the best part of the film.

Bigger question is why don't asians realise Lolita isn't an instruction manual?

Prose is shit and plot is shit. Nabokov sucks, even DFW is better.

I found it to be very good. It's daunting how you sometimes find yourself rooting and enjoying such a monster as Humbert.

You Freud!

But I agree, you're like the people denouncing it as a pornography back in tbe day. Go ahead and read the most boring 'pedophile pornography'.

Why does Veeky Forums hate Nabokov recently?

Moralfags and butthurt Dostoevsky fanboys, I imagine.

The first two.

It's because he experiences genuine emotions that are common to all, whatever the context

>the scene where she's in his lap

Really hate this image I wish people would stop posting it

look mate when you start larping as the godfather don't be surprised when you get called a fag on the internet

Fuck you, it was funny.

This.

Lolita was also subversive jewish smut. When you find something that is harmful towards society, there's always a jew behind it.

>The manuscript was turned down, with more or less regret, by Viking, Simon & Schuster, New Directions, Farrar, Straus, and Doubleday.[33] After these refusals and warnings, he finally resorted to publication in France. Via his translator Doussia Ergaz, it reached Maurice Girodias of Olympia Press, "three-quarters of [whose] list was pornographic trash".

>Girodias was jewish

I just finished reading it. I can't imagine rooting for Humbert. The whole book reads like an elaborate justification for his actions

"Um gross its about pedophilia??" is the quickest way to determine that someone has not actually read the book.

Personally I think it's a masterpiece. When I finish a book and don't see any possible way for it to be improved, I consider it worthy of its praise. It doesn't matter if you like what happens in the PLOT of the book; what matters is what it means.

Veeky Forums doesn't hate the classics. We just have a really bad infection shitposter.

>you know that author that is universally acclaimed and loved by you and everyone else??
>guess what: they're actually SHIT!!!
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Utter trash. I'm embarrassed for him.

(you)

He's right, tho. Utterly atrocious.

sure is pleb slave morality in here, Humbert did nothing wrong

A weak piece for Nabakov.

samefag

Lolita is trash. I'm not a moralfag. I'll admit that the bit where HH is checking the guestbooks at all of the hotels is pretty funny.

It's probably Kubrick's worst, and yet that flick is still better than the book.

this guy is right. Dude wasn't even a native English speaker. What the fuck does he know about the English language? He had plenty of head knowledge, but no heart or soul.

ngl boners were had

when he shot quilty ha-ha got u

>it's shit
>no one ever qualifies their opinion

fucking pseuds

Nabokov's entrylvl for kids and housewives

wow you people are fucking plebs. the prose is absolutely gorgeous. it's considered one of the most beautiful and well written books in the english language. the prose is inspiring, reading it is life changing. it's like bearing witness to one of the most incredible artistic creations of mankind. what is the purpose of this board if these fucking plebs don't even understand literature?

this

Nabokov is a little tryhard, tbqh. I respect him but the dude is cringe sometimes.

Cringe how so?

>look at this tangle of thorns

He's cringe in a way similar to romantic poets except he comes across less genuine

The point is that it reads as a justification because it's a manuscript from Humbert's perspective. You aren't getting a third party judging, just HH writing about what he did and why he did it. Of course it sounds like justification, the same as a novel by Charles Manson might.

he tries a bit too hard with his word play, I mean yeah we get it Nabokov you a polygot, most of us aren't so give us a break

Not saying I disagree, but are these opinions coming from people in the simple Hemingway-esque prose camp?

M-maybe.

Absolutely not

>everyone on Veeky Forums who is not me is the same person