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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One of these days we’ll have a lit thread that doesn’t mention Lolita/Pale Fire, Blood Meridian, or Anna Karenina (No hate these just show up in almost every thread lol)
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theyre spreading through the rdrama book club, and should we do an actual rdrama book club??? but its whatever
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How do we organize that?
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maybe have a nomination thread, then a voting thread with the top 5-10 upmarseyd comments from the nomination thread??? that could work but its whatever
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Liked Anna Karenina more than War & Peace. Came off as a more human tale to me.
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Guilty as heck as I read Pale Fire, then Lolita and my next one is Blood Meridian lmao. I’ve been re-reading some Borges Poems recently, but is a bit pointless to discuss them here or to post them as they are in Spanish and poetry doesn’t translate well. I guess we need more Faulkner and James Joyce mentions.
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