I'm 60 pages into Lolita and i want to quit. It's well written and interesting but it's heavy. Is it really worth the effort? It's agony to read it, but if there's a gem I'm not going to miss it.
>>8085406
So you're saying that you can't handle 12 years old girl you pussy faggot?
>>8085406
I fell in love with the prose from the get go. If you aren't digging the style, maybe you should put it down. Don't force yourself through something you don't like.
Why the fuck is it "agony" to read?
OP confirmed for shit taste
>>8085406
>It's agony to read
wtf are you talking about. Its a well written narrative about a fairly taboo subject with lots of fun games regarding reliability and puns.
Are you one of those posters making the move from genre to literary fiction?
It's a bit draining if you haven't read much in a long time, and yea, if you're used to typical genre fare besides. But it's hardly agony.
If anything the book was worth reading for the very odd final confrontation alone.
>>8085406
It is 'heavy', that's just how it is, because Nabokov.
If that's what you're disliking, then you won't like the rest of it either, because it doesn't change one bit, I'd say it actually can get more 'heavy' as you go along.
The prose is probably the best part of the book. The story is touching, but it's probably not worth forcing yourself through, if you aren't liking it.
>>8085406
>Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.
This is at begining and I used it to fuck girls (women, not 12 yo's).
what a beautiful pedo book
Nah. It's just a bad writen pornographic detective. People praise it for its pretentiousness (pedo file XD).
The audio book read by Jeremy Irons is an alternative you should consider. His performance is excellent. Not so much a guy reading a book out loud as it is Humbert Humbert reading his own monologue.
>>8085562
>People praise it for its pretentiousness
did you understand it that Humbert Humbert was a fucking pedantic?
>>8085562
>It's just a bad writen pornographic detective.
Hm yes I think I will trust your discerning eye.
>>8085406
It gets better. I remember the first fifth of the book being a little tedious, but it worth getting through.
Don't force yourself to read something you're not interested in reading, dummy.
>>8085501
The book is well written yes but it is indeed supposed to be agonizing to readers
See our conciences revolt against the an unnatural thing HH is doing, the way he coldly manipulates the mother into marrying him, the way he traps the nymphet into traveling with him and having painful sex with him. Most people will find this book intensely uncomfortable, especially with the cognitive dissonance in listening to HH talk about his sexual attraction, which does make the readers a bit excited and then watching it rip apart the lives of those around him.
>Not appreciating the prose
Fucking pleb
>>8085576
People don't understand Irony unless it has a /s at the end. They've probably never read (or even heard of) anything else by Nabokov.
OP, it seems you haven't read books in some time, so you might want to take it slow. It could be that you for some reason don't like the prose, in which case I don't agree with your taste. If that's it, move on to something contemporary and revisit Lolita in a year or so if you feel like it. If you think that the prose it neat but you're having trouble concentrating, don't worry about it. Just read a couple of pages and enjoy them, then take a break and get back to it later. I had to take breaks pretty often because if the orgasms I had because of the prose. I was 20 when I read it, don't know if that mattered.
Best of luck, OP. If you're easing into reading, go with some short stories.
>>8085406
it's not really agonizing until part 2.
