This book is a distasteful high concept gag and the characters are all cartoonishly ludicrous.
Can't believe this was recommended to me as some sort of masterwork
This book is a distasteful high concept gag and the characters are all cartoonishly ludicrous
Michael Bell
Jayden White
100% agree.
Thomas Myers
Most of the time reading Nabokov is like reading a more ambitious Borges. They are cleaver but their literature is empty. There's nothing of insight in it. It puts a smile on your face and makes you think how clever it is, but that's it.
Cooper Murphy
>recommended to me as
why would you trust lit recommendations?
I recommend this and DFW all the time as a cruel joke
James Edwards
Yeah but it was in Blade Runner 49 too.
I have no idea why, it had absolutely nothing to do with the movie thematically
Easton Powell
really? hahaha
lets just slip this in for those in the know ;D i'm so enlightened
Logan Price
Is Ada or Ardor a meme too?
Matthew Sanchez
Felt pretty much the same.
Nabokov is a delight to read, but what began as a hilarious, self-important misinterpretation of a rather dull poem, quickly lost steam. Nabokov's prose and the relative shortness of the book kept me going.
It was an enjoyable read, but I have no idea what Nabokov was trying to achieve.
Leo Martin
This one is not memed as much anymore, but yes it is. You should only read Lolita, if any.
Sebastian Gutierrez
No compassion for John Shade and his daughter's suicide?