Thread 24699946

The first part of this book is a masterpiece. The rest: not so much.

>yeah this book is only good when the man is grooming the child
>After she grows up it's not so great

>>24699946 (OP)
You are objectively wrong!

>>24699950
>>24699956
Sorry but it's true. For me it's obvious that Nabokov lost most of his passion for writing the book after Humbert and Lo have intercourse the first time. The suspense evaporates and the prose gets a lot less fun. Also the endless passages of them traveling overstay their welcome.

>>24699980
At risk of spoonfeeding you, that's kind of the point you retard. They fuck, the illusion is broken, and now everything is changed

>>24699946 (OP)

How gonna just tell all of /lit/ you got filtered that hard. It's not even a difficult book to understand.

>>24699980
That's just post nut clarity fr fr senpai

Now's my chance: Did anyone else think it was hacky of Nabokov to have Lo's mom (I think it was) die in a car crash right as she was about to expose him after discovering his diary? Or is it implied he's an unreliable narrator that actually killed her?

>>24699980
The prose doesn't lose anything, you are just unable to read and went in for the porn. The travel is the best part, if you didn't get how it connects to the rest it's your fault

>>24700082
Meh. It's supposed to be darkly comedic.

>>24700082
he couldn't have faked or lied about a car crash, it's too easily verifiable by the court. quilty could have arranged it however.

>>24699980
>Also the endless passages of them traveling overstay their welcome.
i remembered it being that way too but on a second read i realized its only two chapters back to back that open part 2. the lists of places still have entertaining details but the important part is how gloomy the reality of the situation is: Lo forced through a joyless trip of meaningless parks and museums with his rapist while her mother is dead and any prospect looks impossible. the less intrigue there is on the surface in those chapters, the more there is implicit emotion and black humor. and it is only the plot intrigue and humberts neurotic passion that purposefully takes a backseat, not the prose. there isn't a paragraph that isn't great in the novel imo.

>>24699946 (OP)
>he didn't enjoy Humbert going back to her hometown and in a fit of nostalgia
>he didn't feel anything at Humbert meeting with pregnant Lolita and having to pretend he is her parental figure (the ULTIMATE and FINAL cuck)
>he doesn't consider the Humbert-Quilty confrontation as one of the most iconic duels in all of literature, equal to Pechorin facing off Grushnitsky in the Caucasus and Kirilov facing off himself.
It is so fucking over for ya
>>24700082
Nabokov's side characters just die off for no reason like Chinese factory workers. When he said he considered them galley slaves he meant he could throw them overboard whenever necessary for the smooth sailing of the plot.

>>24699946 (OP)
Is lit/ contractually required to always have at least one thread about this book going at all times?

>>24700665
>galley slaves he meant he could throw them overboard whenever necessary for the smooth sailing of the plot.
more so that he wrote non-chronologically so that events stay the same and characters cant "get out of control" and do something outside of his initial or larger plan for the plot, which is what he was responding to with that, and which i think was his intention with the galley proof pun. the surviving characters tend more to be minor once the book ends.

>>24700692
its a controversial book with two movie adaptations that also happens to be incredibly well written (by an author with controversial opinions known also for hiding things that only later generations find) and either shorter or the second shortest book in the top 10s of those top 100 lists. its only natural.

>>24700933
Do you think these threads are used before the coomers jump on over to b to search for the cartoons, and then elsewhere?

>>24699946 (OP)
Why did they make her jewish in this edition?