Yeah, I know it's TV and Movies, but I thought it might be a good idea, and when I floated it in the "recommend an author" thread, no one stopped me. Feel free to delete this thread if it's a stupid idea. I'm new around here.
Each post should be a single book you have reviewed, in any style you want.
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
A book where you’re compelled by the narrative to identify with an unrepentant pedophile? A book where every single character is so psychologically damaged that you have to read the book a whole bunch of times to work out what the hell is going on? A book which makes literally hundreds of jokes (that presumably everyone else will miss) based on the fact that you know French and German? It’s like he had a list of things that alienate readers and ticked them off one by one.
It has to be the bravest act of literature in history.
If you want to know what it looks like when a man is mercilessly fucking the English language, burning with the lust of a thousand suns: read Lolita. It’s perfect. Every single sentence is a personal gift from Nabokov to your thirsty brain, and you should read each one slowly.
Lolita is a book about a pedophile hitting on a 12-year-old girl, written from his point of view, as a touching and unconventional love story. But of course the actual subject matter of the story is horrific child abuse. So the story goes one way and the style goes in the opposite direction and you're left wondering what the fuck just happened. Lolita hits you like a brick. From page one. And keeps pounding your skull all the way into the middle of the book, when you just sort of calm down and accept that it's a romance. And then afterwards, when you're finished, you feel unwell. And then you go back and read it again. It's that good. I promise.
Each post should be a single book you have reviewed, in any style you want.
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
A book where you’re compelled by the narrative to identify with an unrepentant pedophile? A book where every single character is so psychologically damaged that you have to read the book a whole bunch of times to work out what the hell is going on? A book which makes literally hundreds of jokes (that presumably everyone else will miss) based on the fact that you know French and German? It’s like he had a list of things that alienate readers and ticked them off one by one.
It has to be the bravest act of literature in history.
If you want to know what it looks like when a man is mercilessly fucking the English language, burning with the lust of a thousand suns: read Lolita. It’s perfect. Every single sentence is a personal gift from Nabokov to your thirsty brain, and you should read each one slowly.
Lolita is a book about a pedophile hitting on a 12-year-old girl, written from his point of view, as a touching and unconventional love story. But of course the actual subject matter of the story is horrific child abuse. So the story goes one way and the style goes in the opposite direction and you're left wondering what the fuck just happened. Lolita hits you like a brick. From page one. And keeps pounding your skull all the way into the middle of the book, when you just sort of calm down and accept that it's a romance. And then afterwards, when you're finished, you feel unwell. And then you go back and read it again. It's that good. I promise.
The thing most reviews miss, in the middle of the ick, is how funny it is. There are many LOL moments. The whole thing could be seen as an intellectual comedy.
