Tell me your favorite book. And why.
Please.
@JDominy Lolita simply cause it’s so raw and so amazingly horrific.
@MissShadyM It’s a love for me too. Nabokov’s language makes you so deeply intimate with the characters. And that intimacy leads you to realize, in the end, that you’ve almost bought into the self-validations of a plotting, grooming, pedophile. It really is horrific.
@JDominy Exactly! And with the 1962 movie, even though they don’t have the same writing, it still makes you feel like the real pedophile = hero cause at the start of the movie, you see him about to kill the guy with the glasses, but when you watch it all the way to the end, you see a pedophile about to kill a maybe-innocent man, and that is just horrible to know that from the very start of the movie, you has been tricked, that’s horrific to know.
@JDominy Right! His writing is so..beautifully horrifying, it’s lovely but then you realise that you has been technically groomed into accepting his view, cause Lolita, the book, is a test subject to see if we would fail or pass the test: Accept Humbert’s View, and most of the readers failed the test and accepted his views as normal, even though he’s a unreliable source.
@MissShadyM And you realized that actually, you’ve been “groomed” as well to accept his view.