I seriously can't read this book anymore. I don't understand why this book is so beloved. I can't stand this Humbert Humbert character. "Oh, I'm so eloquent and verbose, but I'm also a pedophile who pretty much exclusively talks about fucking this girl". Enough! It's so bad that I pick up the book, and I can hardly get past a single page because I just don't understand what the point of this story is.
In a book like Siddhartha, I get what the point is. You're on a quest for enlightenment. I don't have a problem with books that don't have a clear purpose, but this one doesn't seem to have much purpose beyond the "prose" and the drama.
I am not beyond having someone explain this book to me in a way that makes me appreciate it to the point of being interested in it.
Nolan Perez
The opening literally tells you what its about.
Humbert is going on a self-indulgent and highly biased rant about his pedophilic escapades.
Nathaniel James
I bet you're the type of person who needs to "identify" with the protagonist.
Cooper Myers
Honestly I have a hard time reading any sort of romance novel.
Xavier Howard
Lolita isn't a romance novel.
Zachary Morales
It's a simple book about a man being manipulated by a cunt. Yes she's underage, but that doesn't matter.
Jaxson Green
Like hell. The entire thing is him gushing over the girl and talking about the things they do together. I'm not saying that's bad but it's too romantic for me to enjoy
Ian Evans
It's a book about a man obsessing over a little girl and her being bounced back and forth between old men like a badminton. There's nothing romantic about it at all.
Cooper Jones
why would you have sex with children
Dominic Perry
>12 years old >children
Lucas Jones
I had a hard-on reading that book.
Asher Davis
First half of the book: pedo fantasy Second half: hard reality
Wyatt Lopez
That doesn't have anything to do with what I said you moron.
Michael Gonzalez
Not a denial.
Gavin Watson
You mean like a shuttlecock? I mean, you wouldn't say >back and forth like a tennis Would ya? this is Veeky Forums after all.
Kevin Cook
Yeah he got pretty cucked in the second half
Samuel Hernandez
I bet you read for plot.
Carter Roberts
>implying
Daniel Moore
that's why he prefaced it with "i bet...", because it supposes something, mein friend
David Moore
Not even that. It's when he's finally got her all to himself, and has to deal with the typical issues that come with taking care of a twelve year-old girl, her getting sick, her schooling, and the fact that he unquestionably raped her and that she hates him and finds him dispicable.
Sebastian Hall
Then stop reading it. No one is forcing you to read the works of a pedophile, the Monarch muff mangler himself, the man who rode schoolbuses with children "in preparation", the abused blowjob giving nephew. Just accept that the controversy is the meme, the author is a shell of the greater masters, ignore the dissent, read Joyce's and Steven Moore's suggestions instead. There exists a point at which you must practice your own volition. Cast away the book if you so desire. It's up to you. It always was.
William Richardson
>reading at this low level I feel bad for you
Gavin White
>wanting to delve into the works of a pedophile your literary analysis is top notch i'm sure, please, provide some non-juvenile observations to show to OP your prime mental capacity!
Andrew Bennett
>I seriously can't read this book anymore.
Then don't read it. It sounds like you don't understand it anyway.
Charles Phillips
>REEEEE CHARACTERS NEED TO BE LIKABLE FOR ME TO ENJOY REEEEE meanwhile i just finished and am sad that i don't think i'll ever read a book as beautifully written. someone give me some recommendations pls!
Adrian Sanchez
It's always a little irritating when poor readers denigrate excellent books rather than acknowledge their own shortcomings. The book isn't "bad". Your reading of it is.
Nathaniel Martin
jew gold. also see jew gold buying all the rap.
Andrew White
I was 20 and missed the hell out of a girl when I read it, thought it was the best book ever written. Now I'm closing in on 26 and remember it fondly, but probably won't read it again.
Ayden King
He dont use the "n" work, thou.
Gabriel Sanchez
Do you think Nabokov really was a pedo? it would explain why he was able to write so vividly in the mind of one...
Jeremiah Harris
Is this bait...?
Are you deliberately trying to act like an idiotic plebian?
Adrian Moore
An ephebophile who sublimated his ephebophilia with Lepidoptery .