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” 
. 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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Confessions of a Economic Hitman by John Perkins.
"John Perkins is an economic hitman who spent over a decade pressuring the presidents of poor countries into signing exorbitant contracts with major US construction companies that were financed by major international banks."
It's an autobiography of a US contractor glowie where he smugly tells all about how he buck broke 3rd world governments into being American simps.
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