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nuclearshill gau/cho  1yr ago (image post) 519 thread views #181407

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

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

I’m currently on Chapter 3 Part 2 of Lolita (page 166 of the annotated edition). I have no idea why people say this book is pedophilia apologia, or why some say the main character is “sympathetic”. Humbert Humbert is not just a :marseysickos: perv, he’s a psychopath as well. He marries a woman he loathes solely so he could lust after his preteen daughter, he feels no remorse, guilt or sadness when she dies (I think he killed her, Charlotte’s death was way to convenient for it to be an accident), he kidnaps the girl, sexually abuses her and blackmails her by telling if she dares to turn him over to the police, she’ll end up in an orphanage and therefore is better off with him. There is nothing likable about this :marseypedo: besides the fact he’s funny and witty. As for the witting, is absolutely beautiful, so many references, wordplay and french quotes, you can tell how great Nabokov was by making such a great book with a such a delicate subject as this.

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Have you read batgirl year one? It’s a mini series by Dixon which also tells the dual narrative of the sad story of killer moth.

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No it’s from 2003. It’s also technically a sequel to robin year one but it’s stand alone if you know your Batman basics and modern trade paper backs collect both.

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I just read the psychopath test and it mentions that book (G,O,B) and Hofstadter.

It's a true story, they find this book called being or nothingness and nobody really knows anything about it, but it had a note to ask Hofstadter about it.

Can ctrl+f it here if interested

https://www.panmacmillan.com/blogs/literary/psychopath-test-chapter-one

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He's a journ*list and it's about looking into how we diagnose/treat psychopaths and the history of that. And he ties it in by going out and talking to people who are labelled psycopathic.

Like he interviews this one guy who ran death squads (I think in Haiti), another who's in Broadmoor which is a Criminal Psychiatric hospital in Britain.

Another person he interviews is this guy Albert Dunlap who was the CEO of Sunbeam and was famous for firing a bunch of people.

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I enjoyed it. I've been reading a couple of the Authors books and I enjoy them, he's a funny writer.

Fair warning, it's not very technical or anything. He's just a journ*list and it's more of a humorous and cynical look at the industry.

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