Love is just a sickness of the mind, isn't it?
Love is just a sickness of the mind, isn't it?
Henry Cook
Grayson Butler
Essentially yeah. That's a really good book.
Ian Miller
Goddamnit, I wish I never heard about love and relationships. I was born to be a celibate, but you anons and the media have to constantly remind me to keep wanting a gf. Damn society.
Matthew Hill
Wut is it about?
Cooper Wilson
A dude jerking off his writing skills. Bretty good book, I do recommend an annotated version even if you are a seasoned reader.
Bentley Perry
its to get people to fuck and perpetuate suffering on this planet, thankfully whites are having less and less children because they get it, everyone else is fucking like crazy and no one will do anything about it
Tyler Hughes
The book is great but the movie has something the book doesnt, and that's young redheas Dominique Swain. God in heaven, there's never gonna be a girl as pretty as her, it's just impossible.
Carter Hughes
>its to get people to fuck and perpetuate suffering on this planet
Damn, love is the biggest and most deceitful meme nature has ever created.
Blake Ward
It's about a dude who loses his 13 year-old girlfriend, and develops, in adulthood, a sexual obsession with women ages 10-14 from the loss. He goes to live with a dowager because of her 12 year old daughter. Through a weird course of events, he becomes the daughter's stepfather. They have sex, but she decides to run away. Years later, he meets back up with her, but finds her sexually unattractive despite his love due to her age. He finds out her now husband was not the one who took her away in the first place. She explains the drama with the abductor. The story ends with him hunting down her 'abductor' (the man who helped her run away) for taking her away during the years he would've felt attracted to her... and because he kicked her out for not doing porn.
Noah Rodriguez
no
just a more advanced form of liking something a lot.
Jordan Foster
depends on your mom
>perceptive and caring mother
love is joy
>volatile and sadistic mother
love is suffering
Zachary Thompson
FUCK THAT BOOK AND FUCK THE RUSSIAN NIGGER WHO WROTE IT
Michael Hall
The story ends with him hunting down her 'abductor' (the man who helped her run away)
Quilty really was a villain and a douche though.
>It's about a dude who loses his 13 year old girlfriend, and develops, in adulthood, a sexual obsession with women age 10-14, from the loss.
>tfw it happened literally the same thing with me.
Is this why I love Lolita so much? Am I another Humpert?
>no, just a more advanced form of liking something a lot.
No it fucking is not. Romantic Love is not "liking", it's a fucking obsession, a paranoia, a drug, a delusion. Liking a lot is what you tell your best friend after drinking, that's not what passionate romantic love is about that is all-consumming.
>volatile and sadistic mother
>love is suffering
But I had an overprotective and extremely loving mother, yet I believe that love is suffering, but actually only because I've learned how painful it is after I thought it was great.
Landon Rodriguez
Why the fuck are you so mad user?
Originari comment.
Joseph Fisher
because it made me think that relationships with older men were ~romantic~ and ~tragic~. humbert should've stuck his dick in a vat of acid and so should you if you sympathise with him.
Jaxson Baker
She isn't particularly cute, and too old.
David Russell
Underage b8 kys
Brayden Morgan
no you dumb idiot why the fuck would you judge what love is taking into account the ideas of that fucking book
not that it (the book) was bad but you're being dumb
Matthew Martin
Are you a fembot? Did you get a heartbreak by an older man?
Isaiah Cox
>no you dumb idiot why the fuck would you judge what love is taking into account the ideas of that fucking book
Because it's the only convincing love story of the 20th century.
Hudson Martinez
but that is wrong
Parker Evans
i guess, if you want to call it that. but heartbreak isn't illegal.
its kind of soothing to know that while humbert technically avoided justice in the book, he died a deeply unhappy man. maybe even more unhappy than dolores. and i know the same thing is going to happen to all men like him.
Jaxson Adams
I started reading Invitation to a Beheading because an user recommended it to me after reading Lolita. Can someone please recommend me more books?
Liam Sullivan
the brothers karamozov if you want a russian writer who's not niggerkov. notes from the underground is written from the POV of a literal robot.
stuff by tom robbins kind of reminds me of nabokov, at least the writing style. especially skinny legs and all.
Liam Carter
How so? It's the modern Romeo and Juliet. It represents the absolute sickness and tragedy of love. That love is a vice that only ends up deteriorating our lives, as Shakespeare once put:
"There's no greater tale of woe
Than that of Juliet and Romeo"
They end up killing themselves in the end, symbolizing the destructive nature of romantic love, and this is an honest representation of it.
You could say the same happens in Lolita, where tragedy strikes in the end, leaving Lolita damaged. And the beginning too, when the male character falls in love at first sight and does everything to have her, even when it's wrong (in the same way it was taboo for Capulets and Montagues to fall in love, it is taboo to love Lolita due to her age, yet love at first sight strikes either way, Romeo and Humpert alike) and love ends up being all-consuming. Its so similar in scope we could even just call it a remaking of the same tale of romantic love.
Jace Nelson
invitation is a great book. try notes from underground by dostoevsky. it's over recommended but not without good reason.
others:
dune, the original at least.
redwall the original and the one after with matthias
watership down
dracula
if you want a little philosophy then try plato's symposium
Matthew Carter
When it's not reciprocated, yeah.
Brayden Taylor
also hunchback of notre dame. it has the same lurid sexual tension that Lolita does. the monk is similar, even more sexual, but desu i think it's dogshit
Blake Miller
>Maybe even more unhappy than dolores. and i know the same thing is going to happen to all men like him.
Damn, you're really bitter about this. What happened, were you underage at the time? Just to let you fucking know, I don't condone any form of relationship with minors of non-consenting age. This book is a majestic love story precisely because of the taboo of it and the destructive nature of love, but I in no way think good those who seek to commit acts like those of Humpert. If anything, this book is a warning at how sick and twisted being love is and what it can make you do and feel.
Angel Peterson
ultimately there are two powers in the world: there is truth and untruth. truth is to go with God. untruth is anything else. these two powers are manifest in the material world, and within material reality are an infinite amount of forms that represent a spectrum of those two original powers. none of the aspects directly embody either power but at times are visible through a certain kind of illumination.
the love that is in nabokov is not real love, but an unnatural and ultimately self-defeating exchange of energy, and is an aspect of the power that would lead to everything good becoming corrupted.
real love is a foundation for ascension for humanity. it's the way things are supposed to be.
Brody Bennett
Define "love" to me user
origi
Noah Gray
what kind of answer would it take to make you understand
Alexander Mitchell
clearly you've missed a lot of the nuances of the book. humbert is not in love with Lolita. he doesn't love her. he just thinks he does.
Ryan Sullivan
Well, by what you wrote there it looked to me as if the love that is true is the one that is God-ly, and that these can be represented in visual and material forms as either pure and impure. The ones that are pure are those pertaining to truth and god, and those that are inpure something else. Wouldn't it make just so much more sense than just to love God beyond everything else and just become celibate like a mystic or a monk?
Mason Jackson
no that's dumb because we are meant to ascend through the material world, using the material world to rediscover itself. all of truth is a remembering because we peer into truth through the material world. the world we live in is a labyrinth because of this. the answer however is always potentially present. the truth is a pathless path, but it still requires a challenge of falling into falsehood. it's a principle of existence here
Landon Martin
Wow fuck off roastie. Humbert did nothing wrong
Benjamin Morgan
Is it bad that I identify so strongly with Humbert? It sonetimes swwms like we are the sane person.
Ryder Bell
fuck Kierkegaard, Love is the real sickness unto death
Cooper Price
>Is it bad that I identify so strongly with Humbert?
No. I do that too.
>fuck Kierkegaard, Love is the real sickness unto death
What do you mean?
Roasties must die.
Lincoln Cook
Love does not exist. It's a cliche, but you have to deal with the chemical reactions in your brain on your own.
This pure and selfless love is just a concept, that man created, because that what man does: creates idea greatest than himself. Why? Possibly because if there is nothing greater than this just now, then why would anyone want to be alive? We need a unreachable goal, ideal we want to approach and become a little bit better for each other.
It's all just the illusion and also since it's just chemical reactions with electrical impulses (not anything metaphysical) man "loves" in different way than woman does, but that's pretty obvious. We want pretty, beautiful things that we can have and protect. Sometimes just the thing that could remind us that there is still something greater than ourselves to stand for and we believe that it will love us the same way back. Of course sometimes the primal urges want us just to fuck. But guess what? Women are not better, they love status and to be protected, be provided etc. (all the other shit that manipulative bitches like), but since there is a government that provides they don't need us anymore.
Both sides don't profess the metaphysical love anyway. Deal with it.
Sorry I had to express such obvious things.
Jackson Hernandez
>Love does not exist
You're absolutely right user.
Unironically thank you.
Hudson Reed
>Love is just a sickness of the mind, isn't it?
a sickness you can use to either destroy your life, or propel it forward, I chose the later.
Elijah Russell
>Love does not exist
if I had to define how I'm feeling and how I been feeling for the past few years, I would say it's love, but it borders hate sometimes.
so I don't really know.
Jonathan Ward
if I wanted you to still be under the illusion of the mystical love I would say that love is full of hardships, etc. But this is bullshit.
So my uneducated guess is that for past few years your brain was on a tidal dosage of oxytocin and dopamine (obviously I'm just abbreviating there). It wear off eventually, but either you deal with it somehow or not - your call.
I wish I'd not be the truth, but since I have neither remedy for it nor alternative path for life. If we all just quit the game then our descendants were not able to find the cure. Hopefully someday the love will be a relic of the past, just the idea that it's always has been, but kept us from growing, expanding and developing the humanity, just like the medieval times.
Henry Evans
>because it made me think that relationships with older men were ~romantic~ and ~tragic~
classic retarded tumbrina completing missing the point, I can't comprehend how braindamaged you'd have to be to think that after reading lolita, holy shit
Mason Torres
Lolita ain't shit, leftopia's where it's at.
Alexander Martinez
Disregard roast beef
Ian James
Wow.. Pedophilia is deep..
Jacob Campbell
I hate this book.
When I read it first I read it through the lenses of a teen who knew he was a pedo. I read through it because I wanted a love story, or at least a story that contained romance. When I read it first I forced all those things out of the book, and so I left with a moderately happy disposition.
I later got into Jung and the like and then read about how much Nabokov hated Freud, so I picked it up again. Reading it through again made me want to kill myself. Its not a love story, or a happy story, its a series of abusive relationship tactics of a guy trying to force the kindling of love with a person who didnt want love. He never even had her interest, the second she got to the first fucking hotel she already had plans to skip town with the rich pedofuck playboy.
It was little tradgedy after little tradgedy and all he did was poke fun at Freuds theories. Hes no mastermind psychologist and was posited pretty shit theories as counter-arguments, but that doesnt even matter. I just wanted hope, not even realizable hope, and this book felt like someone spitting in your face and laughing. Fuck this pretensious Russian fag, I bet he lied about his synesthesia, the pompous fuck.
Luke Gutierrez
yeah, the book is garbage. i read it expecting dirty scenes, and there was nothing. it was poorly written, too. my book, leftopia, is much better than lolita.
Jace Robinson
It wasn't meant to be hopeful, user.
Ian Clark
Russian literature isn't known for being happy you user.
Adam Miller
shilling harder than the epic jew meme on your cover art there buddy