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22930752 No.22930752 [Reply] [Original]

is it good?

>> No.22930761

No, it's below average. If dolores was 17 this no one would know about this book

>> No.22930767

It can be if it's your first time. Lolita is for a certain type of degenerate who love a beautiful prose to justify their reprobate interests in children.

>> No.22930775

>>22930767
you exactly described how I feel about the book but I still have hope

>> No.22930781

>>22930761
>If dolores was 17 this no one would know about this book
you're right

>> No.22930914

>>22930752
>In 1960, Adolf Eichmann was captured in Argentina, kidnapped and transported to Israel where he was imprisoned while awaiting trial. Incidentally, at some point during his incarceration, one of Eichmann’s guards gave him a copy of the recently published German translation of Lolita, as German-Jewish émigré philosopher Hannah Arendt puts it, “for relaxation”. After two days Eichmann returned it, indignantly telling his guard it was “quite an unwholesome book”.

>> No.22930945

>>22930761
That's like saying that if Patrick Bateman was a normal, well adjusted person no one would know about his book.

>> No.22930993

>>22930945
That's different, batemans mindset and character were unique and original in some ways, dolores was completely average

>> No.22930995

>>22930914
of course a nazi wouldn't like a degenerate book

>> No.22931026

>>22930761
If Romeo and Juliet worked out no one would even care... Whoa

>> No.22931038

>>22931026
No one cares about Romeo and Juliet either way
(except maybe old boomers who have one foot in the grave)

>> No.22931056

>>22930752
yes, it's a masterpiece

>> No.22931059

>>22930752
yea

>> No.22931364

>>22930752
first half, yes.

>> No.22931539

>>22930993
The point is that you can't just remove the central conflict.

>> No.22931564

It starts out fantastic but it's just ok as you approach the middle of the book. The end for me was a drag.

>> No.22931652

>>22931564
Interesting because I find the opposite true. The ending is the highlight of the entire story. A man coming to the realization that he's a monster and decides to kill someone just a little worse than he is.

>> No.22932885

>>22931652
>humbert
>a monster
lol

>> No.22932896

>>22931038
All zoomettes love Romeo and Juliet, you just don't know because you only hang out with your 45 yo fat wife's friends

>> No.22933046

"pretending to be retarded" doesn't make one intelligent. also i have seen random kiddies bluntly said the book was a pedophile book like it's the only thing noteworthy. should a random basket weaving place feels responsible? of course not. does it make going on and on about the same stupid shit okay?
i feel so nihilistic about life already