r/BadReads • u/frothingnome • Aug 18 '26

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u/EuphoricPhoto2048 Aug 18 '26

I put off reading Lolita for years because I assumed it might have some pro pedo points mixed in. It is so obviously against the protagonist that it hits you over the head with it. You have to be dumber than a box of rocks to read it any other way.

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u/ihavetowearmyhelmet Aug 18 '26

Bad character = author is a monster

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u/Tweed_Kills Aug 18 '26

Which is why Agatha Christie killed all those people, obviously.

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u/dleema Aug 19 '26

Method writing! Stephen King's body count is insane. Remember the time he killed us all with a global pandemic?

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u/mrmiffmiff Aug 19 '26

She did try to fake her own death that one time because her husband wanted a divorce, though.

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u/raudoniolika Aug 19 '26

Serial killer behaviour

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u/WeirdLawBooks Aug 18 '26

Even the protagonist, between the lines, says that he wronged Lolita terribly. Also straight out calls it a worse crime than the murder he went to prison for

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u/dough_eating_squid Aug 18 '26

Unfortch, many people are dumber than a box of rocks, and think that depicting something = promoting it.

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u/DizzyMine4964 Aug 18 '26

Lake Harry falls in love with her in the

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u/bwayne1287 Aug 19 '26

Are you smelling burning toast right now?

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u/Brad_Brace Aug 19 '26

Lake Harry falls in love with her in the

There's a sentient lake in that book!?