Weekly “what are you reading” thread # 11 :marseyreading:

To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks, papers, etc.

I started Lolita this week, I’m currently on page 61. I have no idea why some people believe this is a p-do apologia, it took me only 10 pages to feel completely disgusted by Humbert Humbert, especially when he started talking about his “nymphets” :marseypedosnipe::marseyyikes:. But as with Charles Kinbote, I have to say Humbert is a super funny narrator, the way he trashes Mrs Haze at every opportunity, so bitchy and so manipulative lmao, which makes him much scarier than Kinbote, who was unmistakably a schizo to everyone around him.

Sometimes I can’t believe Nabokov was Russian, his dominion over the English Language is quite impressive, even if he grew up in a trilingual environment, typical of the Russian aristocracy.

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Blood Meridian. I started reading it like a week or two before Cormac McCarthy died.

:#marseydisintegrate:

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I’ll read that one after finishing Lolita

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that's my favorite cormac mccarthy, suttree is another good one

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