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 perv, he’s a psychopath as well.
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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Just finished I, Claudius/Claudius the God by Robert Graves (solid Historical Fiction).
Just started rereading Ulysses, I always forget how lyrical some of the lines of it are, I feel something new and different every time I read it.
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