Re: What are you reading?
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What an average American misses when reading that book is that it's a scathing critique of the boorish, inane America by an intellectual European. What they read it for is the sensation of a forbidden and perverted love affair.</p>
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glad I am not average... nor exactly american. [;)]
Again, I am only halfway through, but my impression is that Humbert is so charmingly likeable (it is narrated by "him"), yet he is such a twisted, awful, manipulative man. I mean, I agree with both Faust and dontbecruel, nabokov is reveiling the hypocrisies of both Americans and Humbert (the European), i don't think he spares his knives for either.
Also, totally agree with Nabakov's writing. It just floors me, it is estatic, over-the-top, amazing. I feel like I am dancing through the words when I read it. </p>
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[quote user="Faust"]
What an average American misses when reading that book is that it's a scathing critique of the boorish, inane America by an intellectual European. What they read it for is the sensation of a forbidden and perverted love affair.</p>
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glad I am not average... nor exactly american. [;)]
Again, I am only halfway through, but my impression is that Humbert is so charmingly likeable (it is narrated by "him"), yet he is such a twisted, awful, manipulative man. I mean, I agree with both Faust and dontbecruel, nabokov is reveiling the hypocrisies of both Americans and Humbert (the European), i don't think he spares his knives for either.
Also, totally agree with Nabakov's writing. It just floors me, it is estatic, over-the-top, amazing. I feel like I am dancing through the words when I read it. </p>
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