Lolita
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Just finished this, thanks for the recommendation /lit/. I guess part of the whole novel's purpose is to what degree you sympathize with the narrator, whether or not he's reliable, etc. I thought it was a great read, although I wasn't crazy about the ending. Discuss?
>>7600088
The whole novel was a commentary on propaganda and media spin.
I like the ending because I took it asthe only happy ending is everyone diesI think it's meant to be kind of a guilty 'good.' than an 'aw that's sad'.
>>7600088
How did you like that Thug Notes episode?
>>7600115
I don't know about the specificity of media spin, but the general point about moral ambiguity/morality being arbitrary might be on point.
Humbert was a mentally ill pedo, that's pretty straight forward but he does has a lot of positive characteristics, his wit humor and smarts to name a couple. If he wasn't a pedo he'd be a great comic hero.
Nabokov was a linguist and so playing with meanings and multiple versions of meaning and "truth" was his game, not a huge leap at all for him to use that to fuck with our understanding of subjective morality and personal affections
>>7600377
Reading this book made me feel guilty because of the subject matter, so I like to view Lolita as a temptress complicit in Humbert's sin. That why my own Catholic guilt is absolved, because I was also seduced.
Shame about that ending. Does anyone else feel like Humbert and Lolita had compatible souls kept apart by age and lechery?
>>7600761
You sound like a mentally ill sinner who knew of the way of God but deliberately chose to follow Satan instead.
>>7600761
Fucking normie.
