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I finished Moby Dic a couple of days ago. Next i’ll pick up Pale Fire by Nabokov. I started reading that book a few months ago and stoped after the poem because i was reading it before sleep and couldn’t focus well. Even though I still remember what happened and took a few notes, I decided to start from the beginning again.
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Pale Fire is my first Nabokov book. For those of you dramanauts who read him, what are your takes on his magnus opus “Lolita”? I’m quite aware of the book’s content
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Lolita is great but I never once sympathised with Humbert because it's pretty obvious he's a libertarian the whole time. Really makes me
about how redditors could be so taken in by him.
Pale Fire is a better book, but it's also far more obscure and difficult than Lolita, and I can understand why most people haven't heard of it.
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Lolita is phenomenal. And terribly sad really. After finishing it I went back and read the introduction again and cried.
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“Lolita light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin and soul. Lo-li-ta”
I read the first page and I have to say that’s a pretty great intro.
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I didn't like it as much as other people did, apparently, but it was sad. A tragedy for everyone, all around.
I think part of the problem is that a lot of the narrator's snobbery is outdated and needs like an open-face translation. Makes me wonder how much of the snobbery in Victorian novels is parsable. Like, am I supposed to read this stuff and think to myself "God, she chose egg-shell white curtains to go with cream paint in the sunroom? What a dumb, classless b-word, I hope she dies."
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Lolita is great, deserves the fame it has.
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I found Pale Fire unreadable. Lolita is good.
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I confess I still don’t get that novel quite well. Kinbote appears to be a schizo stalker, and he writes a commentary on a novel and that’s it? The writing is beautiful though.
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There are a few interpretations but they all basically lean into the schizoness of it, Kinbote's actual identity is left a bit up for grabs
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Lolita is great, if anyone tries to tell them it encourages pedophilia engage them in combat. If that’s what you took away you have an iq below room temp
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Reminds me of neurodivergent redditoids who need an “/s” at the end of every joke
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Lolita is great, probably better than Pale Fire but I really enjoyed how Pale Fire was written
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John Shade’s poem was so sad. It let me thinking about losing loved ones, dying and stop existing.
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lolita is a phenomenal book. nabokov really stretched the limits of the medium with it. its immaculate prose and psychological style, apart from the aesthetic, also adds an meta layer to the book. its a shame most of the conversation surrounding it delves down to whether it is libertarian sympathizing or not.
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