Dirty Martini
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*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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Threshers_Flail
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Lolita, by Nabokov. Only reading it as my sister just did an essay on it, and wants to discuss it, I'm not really looking forward to that.
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
With William Burroughs by Victor Bockris, very enjoyable collection of essays, interviews, conversations and so on.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
Watchmen
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
that makes my head go funny
breasticles
the smell of life
bright lights, big city. it's making me feel realy hungover. i wouldn't mind, but i haven't had a drink since 2005. 
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
Someone gave that to me and explained that it could potentially radically alter my thinking - but as I read it it just seemed to get ever more entirely predictable. What do you think thus far?
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
bit pervy?!
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
I like it, I kinda get what you mean about it getting predictable, but I reckon that's a result of my understanding the previous chapters IYSWIM
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
Oh yes.
It is definitely one of the best books of the 20th century, IMO. Nabakov was a master.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Discussing it with my little sister would rank as one of those 'FML' moments. I'm not a prude but still...
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
That is part of the beauty of it, I think.
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
pervy-lit is cool
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
FML?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
'fuck my life'
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
that still doesn't make any sense
breasticles
the smell of life
there's a website called 'fuck my life', where people send in little snippets about examples of lifes' challenges that they have encountered- usually of the 'i was having a wank and my mum came in with a cup of tea while i had my eyes closed' sort, and then after the example it says 'FML'.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
yes, but how does that go with DotC's discussing a work of literature with his sister (unless she's not an adult of course)?
breasticles
the smell of life
i don't know. i would imagine she may be in that discomforting hinterland where dotcommunist still thinks of her as a child even though she has reached the dewy apex of her womanhood. maybe dotcommunist would rather not think about his sister having a dewy apex of womanhood. maybe dotcommunist would, in all honesty, rather be watching the dog whisperer and eating oatcakes than having to have earnest conversations about nabakov with his sister. i don't know. ask him, man.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Read that last year, quite enjoyed it as I recall
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I don't have a sister, but when the poster referred to his little sister studying nabakov's lolita I assumed gcse age and imagined how uncomfortable I'd feel discussing it with her. But who knows, maybe hypothetical sister and I would have had the sort of relationship that meant it wouldn't have been uncomfortable for me in any way.
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
My sister is a probation officer and we talk about nonces all the time.
100% masahiko
i is a professor and is magical like totoro
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde.
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