Lolita
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>"What are you reading"
>"Lolita"
>"what's it about?"
How does one answer this without looking like a peado ?
>"what's it about?"
power and obsession
>>7529572
Feeling like shit about wanting to have sex with your true love
>>7529572
it's a complicated love story.
>>7529572
That's symbolist novel about emigrant's fate
>>7529572
>"What are you reading"
>"Trainspotting"
>"what's it about?"
>How does one answer this without looking like a heroin addict?
>>7529572
a very messed up road-trip
>tfw my gf asked me on our first date
>tfw I was nervous so I said "pedophile"
>>7529678
What happened then? Her dad picked her up from school and told you f off?
>>7529572
it's about a girl who goes on a road trip across america with her stepfather.
>"What are you reading"
>"Anna Karenina"
>"what's it about?"
>How does one answer this without looking like a Russian aristocrat ?
>"What are you reading"
>"The Stranger"
>"what's it about?"
>How does one answer this without looking like a sociopath or seeming suicidal ?
>>7529723
it's about a guy whose mother dies and then he goes to the beach
>"What are you reading"
>"How to be a conservative"
>"what's it about?"
>How does one answer this without looking like a conservative ?
>>7529775
>>"What are you reading"
>>"How to be a conservative"
>>"what's it about?"
>what the fuck do you think it's about, you fucking idiot
>what are you reading?
>Infinite Jest
>what's it about?
How to answer this without looking like a tennis playing drug addicted autist?
>"What are you reading"
>"The savage detectives"
>"what's it about?"
>How does one answer this without looking like poor Café con leche drinker ?
>>7529572
>What are you reading?
>My diary desu
>What's it about?
How does one answer this without looking like himself?
>>7529572
>"What are you reading"
>"American Psycho"
>"what's it about?"
How does one answer this without looking like a fashion-obsessed 1980s pop music enthusiast?
>>7529572
>"What are you reading"
>"/lit/"
>"what's it about?"
How does one answer this without looking like a meme loving fuck?
>"What are you reading?"
>"Gallic Wars"
>"what's it about?"
How does one answer this without looking like the absolute ruler of the greatest empire Man has ever known?
>"What are you reading"
>"Don Quixote"
>"what's it about?"
How does one answer this without looking quixotic?
>"What are you reading"
>"The Autobiography of Malcolm X"
>"what's it about?"
How does one answer this without looking like Malcolm X?
>"What are you reading"
>"Heart of Darkness"
>"what's it about?"
How does one answer this without looking like a riverboat captain becoming more and more horrified with the realities of imperialism?
It's about a man misunderstood by everyone. Even himself.
>"What are you reading?"
>"The Sound and the Fury"
>"What's it about?"
How does one answer this without thinking about their own sister?
>>7529837
dubs would've been nice here
>"What are you reading"
>"The Bell Jar"
>"what's it about?"
How does one answer this without looking like a hysterical, vain, self-obsessed, crazy bitch?
>"What are you reading"
>"A Confederacy of Dunces"
>"what's it about?"
How does one answer this without revealing one's power level to a chad thundercock?
>"What are you reading"
>"Johnny Got His Gun"
>"what's it about?"
How does one answer this without looking like a disembodied head and torso?
>"What are you reading?"
>"The Master and Margarita"
>"What's it about?"
How does one answer this without looking like a giant cat?
>>7529572
surely no one you know would have to ask that?
>>7530630
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"What are you reading"
The fault in our stars
"What's it about"
How do I answer this if I can't actually read?
>>7529843
upvoted
>>7529853
>"What are you reading?"
>"Gallic Wars"
>"What's it about?"
How does one answer this without corn?
"You don't know? What a pleb."
>"What are you reading"
>"Confessions of a Mask"
>"what's it about?"
How does one answer this without looking like a beautiful homosexual?
>>7529815
just bee someone else
>>7529572
I just tell people it's about a paedophile who becomes romantically obsessed with a 12 year old. Why?
Had a discussion about this book yesterday and my younger brother asked what it's about. I told him it's a more human portrayal of a paedophile who falls hopelessly for a 12 year old girl and that the book, while unsettling, is also surprisingly rational about the whole thing and is beautifully written (I still love the description Humbert gives about how his legs felt like reflections of legs in water when he first saw Lolita).
My brother asked what the name of the book was, I told him and he said it was gay that a book like that would be called "Lol Eater." He legitimately said this because he's 18 years old and that's still a pretty dumb age.
>"What are you reading"
>"The fourth Political theory"
>"what's it about?"
>How does one answer this without looking like a fascist?
>>7531065
>lol eater
>>7531065
> "Lol Eater."
I just bought this book today, it's the Penguin version with the stupid generic orange cover.
Hopefully people don't think I'm reading a children's book and then when they ask what I'm reading I'd have t tell them it's about a guy who wants to fuck his 13 year old step-daughter.
>>7531065
>Lol Eater
Tell your brother to kill himself.
>>7531065
>>7529572
Intentional or not, It's about how people have more freedom to say what they want, even outrageous and objectionable things, as long as they say it well. A similar meta message in musical form:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdz5kCaCRFM
>>7531065
>>7531189
I want a strategy guide for loleater. would it teach me to apreciate the book, write like nabokov or live like the mc?
>>7531108
>wants to fuck his 13 year old step-daughter
But he does
>>7531189
>>7529863
Thinly veiled recommendations thread
This sounds interesting, thanks
>>7531194
it teaches you how to infiltrate pre-schools and girl's dormitories. Your first mission is to steal a sweaty knee sock, discarded from the morning's tennis lesson by a young nymph. You lust penetrate a respectable Hampshire girl's boarding school undetected and pull out without any help.
>>7531235
Sensual.
>>7529662
It's about the decay of western civilization.
>"what are you reading"
>"stoner"
>easily misinterpreted until explained
>>7529572
Just be honest and say how fucked up it is.
>>7529713
Why would you not want to look like a Russian aristocrat?
>>7529572
An old man's obsession with a young girl.
>"What are you reading"
>"Hypersphere"
>"What's it about?"
How does one answer this without looking like like a Donald Trump supporter who jacks it to Slavoj Zizek?
>>7529572
The poignant failure of Romanticism, and how art and reality conflict.
>"What are you reading"
>"The ego and his own"
>"What's it about?"
How does one answer this without looking like a spook?
>"What are you reading?"
>"Moby-Dick"
>"What's it about?"
How does one answer this without looking like a whale-obsessed homosexual?
>>7529572
>It's about a cute little girl
Is this book actually good? Would it be a good first /lit/ tier book?
>>7529572
this is the worst cover i have ever seen oh my FUCKING god
>>7531835
It's not THAT bad, anon.
>>7531832
It gets nothing but praise here on /lit/, of course it's a good book, it's a great book.
>>7531846
yeah but over on /tv/ the good stuff gets treated like shit, so I was just wondering. Normally I don't hear /lit/ being called a bad board though, so I guess that makes sense. I will pick it up, thank you
>>7531849
That's because it's /tv/, they've got good taste in movies but not in literature.
It's a very good book, I'm sure you'll enjoy it.
>>7531849
it takes more effort and time to read a book than to watch a movie, so people will be more sincere and interested on having a conversation about those 12 or more hours of their life than that hour and a half they spent while eating or fapping. It also brings more sincerity to the table since you are more invested.
>>7532265
If you think that /tv/ has anything above pleb-tier taste, then you should leave.
>>7529572
It's about how the Russian Revolution was justified by the degeneracy of its aristocracy as shown here as an insight into their minds.
>>7529698
Rekt
"It's like Leon the Professional but with a teacher"
>>7529662
Doesn't work as a comparison. Reading fiction about drug addiction isn't viewed as a sign of drug addiction, as it is a common subject of "overcoming hardship" stories.
Reading a story that tells, in great detail, and with poetic prose, about kidnapping and repeatedly molesting a 13 year old girl, on the other hand, is understandably viewed as a potential red flag.
>>7529572
It's about 200 pages
>"What are you reading"
>"Kafka"
>"What's it about?"
How does one answer this?
>>7532897
Good one.
>>7532790
Why did Portman turn to shit as she got older? Is it the inevitable Semitic equine thing?
>>7532927
"I can't tell you" is the correct answer here.
>>7532927
Literary depiction of Pokemon
I like this may may.
>>7529662
Something about it being an exploration of the challenges faced by members of lower class Scots
>"What are you reading"
>"Ulysses"
>"What's it about?"
How does one not answer this?
>>7532927
erdogan be cry
>>7533044
>start with the greeks
>>7532927
It's comic.
Should I avoid watching Kubrick's Lolita before I read Nabokov's, or would he say I was a pleb for reading for the plot?
overrated novel about a wimpy pedo
Lolita is about love and unhealthy obsession. There's literally nothing more to it. It was written in an age of taboo and that's how it made it's fame. Lolita is a product of one man's perversion in an age long past, an age of indecency and literary misfits, an age of miracles.
>>7533044
Exactly this problem. I just kind of stammered on about Greek parallels and stream of consciousness.
>>7529572
"The only convincing love story of our time."
- Vanity Fair
>>7529572
"Exquisite."
-The Economist
