/lit/ - Literature

What's some sister-core literature?

>>13724942
Yes

>First line
>Misquotes Anna Karenina
What the fuck? Was Nabokov a retard? Fucking dropped.

Thoughts on this?

Nabokov supposedly viewed it as his masterpiece.

Armpits

How does Ada place in a list of Nabokov's best works?

Has anyone here read Ada?

Never has a book made me feel so stupid and realize how many damn holes are in my intelligence.

>>11585562

brainlet confirmed

see you in hell, Eric

sexiest books ever written

>>9479501
Disclaimer: I am a pleb

The Corrections by Franzen: A particular scene near the end made me teary. I know this book isn't (in general) liked on this board, but I thought it was great, though admittedly a little "pulpy," in a page turning sort of way.

Ada, or Ardor by Nabokov: probably the best "love" story I've ever read. I genuinely found the scene where Van forces himself to see Ada in a random work girl heat-breaking. I can't recommend this novel enough. Pic related

>>9315266
It's clearly Van and Ada hooking up for the first time in the hallway looking out at the barn-fire in pic related

I don't get it. It was one of the best books I ever read I but I didn't get it at all.

favorite work by an author

>>9101199
I like you. Read Beware of Pity if you're really into Zweig.

>>9105379
>>9105842
>>9106696
I like you guys too.

My favourite is pic related

>>8897762
A novel by the most accomplished writer of the 20th century.

ITT: We post our favourite books, as well as judge eachother solely based on their pick. Here, I'll start:

My favourite book is Ada, by Nabokov, pic related

>>8838926
that's my second favorite

I'm all Nabbed out by the end of this, but what a ride. This book is undoubtedly some kind of masterpiece for its always popping prose, its textual games and puzzle-box riddles, its alternate history world-building, and its Proustian passage of time but - I hate to say I was never able to really love the book. It was as if Nabokov did everything he could to prevent it. "I loathe Van Veen." - Vladimir Nabokov on the subject of his 600 page book . . . Why expend so much energy and talent and care on the story of a boring man in love with his boring sister?

What does /lit/ think? Personally I'm sticking with Pale Fire as my go-to Nabokov.

if you gave him the benefit of the doubt with lolita, read this

nabokov confirmed dirty old man