Someone talk me into loving Nabokov. I don't get him. He feels so lifeless and cold to me. All his work reads like vigorous masturbation. FapfapfapFAPohhhhhfuuuuuckFAPFAPFAPshakespeaaaaarefapfapfapfuuuuckimageniussssfapfapFAPFAPFAPFUUUUUCKIMAGENIUSSSSSfapfafapIMSOFUCKINGSMAAAAARTfapfapfapMAROONfapfapfapSICILIANDEFENSEfapfapfapOHHHHHHHFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKfapfapfafapfapfapfapfapfapbutterflieeeeesfapfapfapFAPFAPfapfapcummynismfapfapFAPfapfapfapfapfp is how it all reads to me
>inb4 filtered

>>24529608 (OP)
what did you read by him?

>>24529608 (OP)
>Someone talk me into
i can’t. you’re right.
read kingsley amis. he shared your view on VN.

>>24529612
>Pnin
>Speak, Memory
>Pale Fire
>King Queen Knave
>Lectures on Lit
Don't get me wrong, clearly a brilliant writer, great prose style, but he's only interested in himself

You retarded if you don't feel the power. It's not about getting or not getting. Not about liking or not liking.

>>24529688
nta but elaborate pls

>>24529688
>You retarded

felt the same after reading Pnin a couple years ago. haven't given him another try yet

>>24529608 (OP)
You know I've heard this critique before of other writers who write in a way that is at all ornate or what I would simply call articulate. What exactly is it about someone who can make a sentence that is like yanking on your penis till it splooges?

>>24529608 (OP)
A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me.