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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 13:00:51 No.7290188 View Reply Report Delete

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Thoughts on Ada?
I wanted to buy Lolita yesterda
>inb4 meme book
>inb4 meme author
It was out of stock so I bought this instead and since I heard this was a better book anyway. I haven't started the book yet but I want to hear what /lit/ has to say about it.
No spoilers please ;_;

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 13:01:56 No.7290195 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>7290198 >>7290628

Is this your first nabokov? I don't recommend starting with it tbh. Nabokov is one of those authors where you have to ease yourself.into it.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 13:03:00 No.7290198 Report Delete

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>>7290195
Nope, I got Pnin and The Defense.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 13:11:27 No.7290222 Report Delete

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Ada isn't a hard book tbh

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 15:10:50 No.7290628 Report Delete

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>>7290195
What's a good place to start with him? Was thinking of reading his short story collection.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 17:29:24 No.7291208 Report Delete

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>>7290628
most common starting pint is probably Lolita but I think Pnin is the best way in. It's more of a cycle of short stories about the same main character than a novel anyway

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 17:32:21 No.7291225 Report Delete

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ada is fucking great, just fucking read it
also it's more pedo than lolita imo and for that extra bonus, it's pedo incest but no one ever seems to mention that.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 01:20:43 No.7293070 Report Delete

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>>7291225
Kids fucking each other isn't pedophilia. The only pedophilia is the young boys and girls briefly mentioned at Villa Venus, and Demon's relationship with increasingly young hispanic girls (I think it gets to the point where his girlfriend is 10 years old. Lolita is far more pedo

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 01:22:25 No.7293074 Report Delete

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It's his most American book tbh

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 01:29:42 No.7293103 Report Delete

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>>7293074
How? Everything about Lolita is more American. A good amount of Ada doesn't even take place in America.

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