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irrelephant

My sodding goodreads replacement (maybe)

What it says on the tin.

Currently reading

The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
David Abram
Pantheism: A Non-Theistic Concept of Deity
Michael P. Levine
Wicked Enchantments: The Pendle Witches and Their Magic
Joyce Froome
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov Jesus Christ. I've never had such a nauseous reading experience. This is a horror book, there's no other way I can think of it. I kinda wish I'd never read it, vivid and impressive as the writing can be. I'm not sure it was worth the discomfort. I know we're meant to be appalled. I'm not blaming Nabokov. If anything I'm blaming the people that can finish reading this and think of Lolita as a cruel seductress, or in any way to blame for the situation she's placed in. Just knowing those people exist made reading the book a very sobering experience. There were funny moments, true. In fact there were a lot of funny moments throughout the book, but it was very much a *grimace, throw the book aside, repeat* experience. God it was so sad. It's sad enough without Humbert letting little details slip in his narrative like afterthoughts that paint an even more soul crushing picture than you imagined.I want to destroy this book, somehow, anyhow. Which is a pretty amazing feat for a book. I don't hate it, I just want to purge its existence from my memory, because it fills me with too many sad, icky, ragey feelings.Here, Jessie, have this book. Take it off my hands, would ya? :P