STOP! It's meme time!

[nahara]

Was too tired and lazy to do the meme yesterday, so here, have two days in one!

Day 07 - Least favorite plot device employed by way too many books you actually enjoyed otherwise

Can't pick one, so you get a list.

• Badly written romance for the sake of romance and very little else, where the characters have about as much chemistry as Bradley James and

Comments

[tourdefierce]

SO MUCH LOVE FOR LOLITA.

I have Nabokov's picture up on my wall because of that book. Pale Fire is also super interesting in regards to subtextual homosexuality, insanity and unreliable narrators.

[nahara]

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I AM ATTACKING YOU WITH HUGS BECAUSE I'VE MISSED YOU, YOU BUSY STUDENT YOU.

I have so much admiration for that man, I think I could burst. *flails* You know, I've started Pale Fire TWO times now and there is always something that makes me put it down (first time it was uni and another time it was just fucking LIFE) and it's not really one of those that you can just pick up where you left off. What I have read of it I've loved. A very, very clever book, using all those footnotes. And I can see traces of Humbert's insanity (in a different form, obvs) in Charles Kinbote.

[tourdefierce]

UNI IS OUT TO EAT MY SOUL WITH AN ICE CREAM SCOOP.

His writing, no matter what the subject, is so fucking moving. I can get lost in all of his texts and it's really appreciative as a reader. The consistency in his writing is so wonderful and such a change of pace from other writers.

It's not really a book you can put down and then pick up again. You are totally right about that, so I can imagine your frustration. IT'S SO CLEVER. IT'S LIKE, MOCKING YOU WITH HOW CLEVER IT IS AND HOW YOU WILL NEVER BE THAT CLEVER. Lol. Right? I feel that way too. I pretty much adore the play on insanity and the parallels it draws in the writing. SO CLEVER.

I'm still jealous of your bookjob. I want a bookjob.

[darth_fez]

I haven't read Lolita yet (still on my shelf), but I have read American Psycho. Have you? It's everything that you said to the extreme. You actually like Patrick Bateman and then he disgustingly, brutally murders women and it's horrific but you don't stop liking the "Patrick Bateman" that he presents to the world. If you haven't read it, and have a bit of a squick for graphic, gratuitous murder, I wouldn't reccommend it - otherwise, it's excellent :D

[nahara]

I haven't read American Pyscho but I've been told I should by other friends - I've just not got round to it yet. Graphic violence doesn't bother me, otherwise I wouldn't read I Cold Blood. (Btw have you read that one? Think you should if you liked Pyscho.) Anyways, thanks for this and I think you should definitely take Lolita off your shelf and give it a go! :P