How do I explain Nabokov's Lolita to my parents/relatives/friends, my dear friends?

How do I explain Nabokov's Lolita to my parents/relatives/friends, my dear friends?
Having this certain book in my good old bookshelf will most certainly raise some eyebrows and questions.

If you don't know how to justify it, then you were probably too dumb to own it in the first place

I can 100% guarantee you that it won't. Anyway, haven't you made this thread before?

No i have not

Then it was some other 14 year old.
>I bought Lolita, am I le cool Veeky Forums pedobear yet xd
>Mom's gonna freak xd

You're all the same, the lot of you.

Your parents/relatives/friends are plebs if they don't know or understand Lolita. Leave them.

two words:

"the prose"

you say you're not reading it to get a boner but because the guy who wrote the book uses a lot of words that start with the same letter in succession and there's a good rhythm to what he says as he describes all this sick shit.

You buy this instead, and enjoy the other fantastic novels too for a better price per novel.

Even if I was a pedo I don't think that book could arouse me.

>three words, mom: epic pedo lulz

Explain to them that Lolita was a whore and that Humbert Humbert did absolutely nothing wrong

Chapter thirteen, though.

Its really easy. This response will work shut down any pair of raised eyebrows concerned by your consuming any kind of media that features controversial content:

"Watching the Godfather isn't an endorsement of organized crime, and not everyone who reads Lolita is a pedophile."

>...and all the while keeping a maniac's inner eye on my distant golden goal, I cautiously increased the magic friction that was doing away, in an illusionional, if not factual, sense, with the physically irremovable, but pyschologically very friable texture of material divide (pajamas and robe) between the weight of two sunburnt legs, resting athwart my lap, and the hidden tumor of unspeakable passion.

Chapter about a middle aged man reaching orgasm from a 13 year old girl grinding on him. I mean its still great, even with the context and the creep.

Lolita is an endorsement of paedophilia by the main character though and The Godfather is probably especially popular reading among mafia members.

You're 16 or this is bait

I'd suck her toes.

People who think Lolita is controversial are people who don't understand the book.

Crash! Mom found Lolita on the shelf!

>"Watching the Godfather isn't an endorsement of organized crime, and not everyone who reads Lolita is a pedophile."
you fail to see that hedonist despise being caught, by other hedonists, with materials for explicit pleasure.

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haha lolita teehee

I also fail to see the relevance of this comment. No offense man, but I'm not sure what you're getting at here.

Lmao

But Library of America editions have bible thin pages, which I hate.

>people still think liking adolescents is pedophilia

Most people don't read so most people won't question the book user.

don't be a puss

I am and it does.

I don't see why you have to explain it. I really don't.

le this
if they can have children then why the fuck would it be abnormal to be attracted to them

It's not even about having children, my girlfriend didn't start bleeding until she was 14 but she was absolutely sexual and curious before then. She's the one that hit on me in the first place.

god what an awful writer

>sympathizing with Humbert
>completely failing to understand the books intention

everytime

Plebs will always ask about the plot and I assume OP's friends are plebs so I see his/her/xir/zir/them point.

How am I supposed to read Pale Fire?

That section was not very good. Nabokov tries to be flowery with the lewdness and it just makes it sound gross and stupid.
>hidden tumor of unspeakable passion.
Ew, Nabokov-senpai, stop.

>Having this certain book in my good old bookshelf will most certainly raise some eyebrows and questions.

no it fucking wont

no one knows what the content of this book is

you could read it in the front row of a classroom and no one would bat an eye because PEOPLE DON'T READ

you're wrong m8

now the ending fight scene, that was schlock

Basically say literally anything except and nobody will care

>he thinks it's pedophilia

I got put on a pedo watchlist for checking out both the book and the movie at my local library

Just don't, who cares. If you're friends with someone as versed in literature as you are then just explain it to them however you like. Otherwise don't bother explaining it to someone you don't think is going to get it.

How do I explain Lolita to my parents/relatives/friends, my dear friends?

Having this girl on my arm will most certainly raise some eyebrows and questions.

It's parody. I bet you people don't like Zappa either.

>not a flat chest

old hag

I liked it. The struggles and the goofiness of it all while still being kind of fun. You can really feel the exaggeration as it goes on, and by the end I was kind of rolling my eyes, with Quilty coming down the stairs and stuff.

"It's a world literature classic"
There you go OP, that's all you need.

People who actually read wouldn't judge someone for reading Lolita, the ones who don't read won't know a shit about it, I don't see the problem.
Besides, people don't usually check the books on your bookshelf unless they really like books.

this desu

You're joking right? Nowadays I'm not even sure anymore.

just say it's about an old man raping a young girl, if you're friends and family are too pleb to get why that would make great lit and haven't heard of nabokov they shouldn't be in your life

Explain to them that it's actually one of the worst of Nabokov's novels and suffers acutely from him choosing to write it entirely in English. Nabokov is simply a better Russian writer than an English one. Tell them you're just reading it for the meme points.

>Humbert tries to be flowery with the lewdness and it just makes it sound gross and stupid.
Fixed that for you. Jesus Christ, user. Don't confuse Humbert's style with the author mocking him.