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!bookworms Smugposting thread for our litcels :marseysmug2:

Which books and authors do you think are filters for plebs?

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https://open.substack.com/pub/samkriss/p/against-lists-of-books

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According to 4chan, Lolita is the third greatest book ever written in human history. Better than Goethe, better than Shakespeare, better than the Bible. Does anyone actually believe this? Even the biggest Nabokov heads all seem to prefer Ada. But there it is. According to 4chan, every single great novel from outside the (broadly defined) West has come from a single country, which is—of course—Japan. They could have pulled Bloom's excuse, that he was limiting himself to the specifically Western canon, but they couldn't resist throwing Mishima in there.

LMAO :#marseyxd:

We know very well why they pick Lolita over Ada or Pale Fire.

Also, I didn't know Obama was so vanilla.

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every single great <thing> from outside the (broadly defined) West has come from a single country, which is—of course—Japan.

Is there any case where this is untrue? Let's say Korea and China count as Japan.

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Lolita is a lot more interesting than Pale Fire :marseyshrug:

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I enjoyed Pale Fire, it's definetely a really good book but Lolita's prose is just :marseychefkiss:

There's a passage early on the book during the time he's banging Lolita's mom in order to get closer to her that he describes how the mother's "thick peasant thighs" revolt him :marseyxdorbit:

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Nabokov is great, dude was crazy talented at writing.

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He made an incredibly amusing and bitchy character out of a despicable sociopathic libertarian. I don't think many could pull that out.

His literary criticism is just as funny and eloquent.

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A few of the notes in his translation of "Hero of Our Time" are aggressively catty.

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I'm about to finish "The Luzhin Defense" which is one his earlier novels written originally in Russian and it is just as great. He does a fantastic work describing a heavily neurodivergent character to a 1930s public that probably didn't know what that even was.

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>failed to express this thought in Marsey form

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Enjoyed the article, but it doesn't persuade me of its thesis. He raises particular objections to /lit/ and NYT lists, therefore lists of books are bad, QED??? :marseyhmm: Using either of those lists as a starting point would be vastly superior to grabbing whatever booktok nonsense is shelved at your local bookstore - objecting to lists of quality books on principle seems akin to rejecting any value judgments about books, anti-intellectual nonsense.

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