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  • The first time I read Lolita I hated it. The second time I fell in love. It's now one of my favourites.

  • As Nabokov once said, "one cannot read a book: one can only reread it"

  • Such a fail.

  • If the dislike button was a phisical obgect, I would so badly press it a 100000000000000000000000000000­000000000000000000000000000000­000000000000000000000000000000­000000000000000000000000000000­000000000000000000000000000000­000000000000000000000000000000­000000000000000000000000000000­000000000000000000000000000000­000000000000000000000000000000­000000000000000000000000000000­000000000000000000000000000000­000000000000000000000000000000­000000000000000000000000000000­0000 times.

  • What a sad, degenerating and square person you are. Read Harry Potter and die. Wait, I forgot you can only read one word per book written in your tasteless handwriting. The only thing I can recommend you is to write "Pwned" on your "pretty" face with henna ink. Never mind what that means because you are not intelligent enough. Shame on you. Hands off Nabokov!

  • .... ... make a proper video, analysing chapter 13 from Lolita. And perhaps do a little research of Lolita, talking about the history of it and the social impact it's had on art: eg, without Lolita there'd be no Tarentino films, Taxi Driver wouldn't have been made etc.. also, friendly advice to an American girl: never... in any situation, say the word Pwnd again. It just makes you look stupid, and it's embarrassing for us. Look forward to seeing the vid. John

  • Lolita is one of the greatest books of all time. I'm afraid you've come across as a bit of an idiot here. Just had a look at your other comments, and it seems this is becoming the general consensus. You've made a video with 'Lolita' in the title, talked the worst kind of American, and then launched the book around your room. Only people looking for videos regarding Lolita will have stumbled onto your vid, so you see why they don't like you or this vid? I have a challenge for you... ....

  • i feel like, as a result of having watched this video, I kind of understand Lolita a little better as a text.

  • You’re an idiot. A career in anything related to literature, or using your brain for that matter, is not for you.

  • Are you retarded?

  • Dostayoffskee? Moron.

  • Should classic literature be nothing more than a 'notch on your belt'? Why do so many people read a book for its length as opposed to its content?

    "pwned?"

    Read a book for the sake of the book, and the insights you gain from attempting to understand its writ. Lolita should be read at least three times, to even begin comprehending its meaning.

    Dumb bitch.

  • @MrTootler

    I only read it once and I am pretty sure I understood it. Was it just advice for people like her? That'll take years...

  • @WiggaMachiavelli You are probably really smart. Schopenhauer recommended reading all books at least twice...I know I have to. And yeah, maybe I was being a little too harsh. Maybe.

  • Since youtube is allowing the place to be filled with ads that just get in the way, they might as well introduce of content filter so that shit that like this doesn't make it inside. I'm looking for what YT has on Nabokov and this dumb girl shows up?

  • Damn, kill yourself... NOW.

  • for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word

  • fair enough, i guess

  • to contest a work by nabokov ((esp. "lolita")) with your childish & benign attempts at what seems to be humor is appalling.

    your conclusion is "pwned"?

    there are mountains of research & literary criticism ((& an ever growing list of cultural references)) surrounding "lolita" & you offer an all encompassing review wrapped up in one pathetic & pithy leetspeak term?

    nabokov is a master of the written word, a literary genius. it is extraordinary that you are supremely dense & deaf to this fact.

  • You're irritating and unfunny.

    Sorry.

    Good luck with your course, you might need it if you found Lolita difficult to read.

  • You...you philistine.

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  • The Book of Lost things is excellent! Read that :D! The ending is especially touching.

  • This is the worst video I've ever seen. A stupid girl dismissing an important and masterful piece of literature merely because she's so smug that she read it. Did you understand it? Did you like it, even? "Who the fuck cares? I read it!" I almost cried when you threw the book. You are one the very worst excuses for humanity I have EVER seen. You are a failed-fart-stain on existence. One day you might look back on this video, see what a cunt you are, and do us all a favour and kill yourself......

  • What's the matter with you? Beside all the points my predecessors mentioned, you sound like you are going to break out in tears any moment...don't make any more videos please

  • I'm proud to say that I finished Lolita in under a month when I was 13

    It is a very awesome book :)

  • One tip: you mispronounced Lolita. The Lo is pronounced in the same manner as the Lo in lollipop. Apart from that I liked this review - accurate, sincere and intelligent. thanks!

  • @smokinbill No, she actually said it correctly. She mispronounced Lolita if she were to speak it in russian (where lo =lo as in lollipop). In english, (which, since the book was originally in english makes this pronouncement more fitting) Lolita is pronounced as in "low".

  • @MrTootler Well no...you're quite wrong. The lo should be pronounced as if in spanish.

  • @smokinbill Ooh, so sorry to dust you. Please watch the video "Nabokov and the moment of truth", about 50 seconds in, and listen how Nabokov himself pronounces "lo" in both Russian (lo) and English (low).

    And if you any further questions on basic pronunciation, feel free to ask me :)

    Jeremy Irons narrating "Lolita" is another excellent source. Newb.

  • @MrTootler Though it is quite beneath me to argue with an intellect such as yours, I shall leave you with this parting gift, an interview from the man himself, from the horse's mouth so to speak:

    "However, it should not be pronounced as you and most Americans pronounce it: Low-lee-ta,

    with a heavy, clammy "L" and a long "o". " No, the first syllable should be as in "lollipop", the "L" liquid and delicate, the "lee" not too sharp.

  • @smokinbill Hell, maybe I am confused now...than why does Nabokov pronounce "lo" as an American does (in my video)? I mean, I know the proper Russian and English way of saying "Lolita", and the book was written in English.

    Perhaps both ways are acceptable?

  • When your threw the book...I swear I almost punched my computer.

    Lolita is a masterpiece and Nabokov was a literary genius. You're immature and you're much better off reading Twilight (that is, if you haven't already read it three times already).

  • If anyone reads Lolita just to "get through" it, they should probably not be reading that book at all.

    It's a very sad book? Sure there are tragic elements, but it's a comedy too. Perhaps the puns and allusions for French literature went past you?

    I've read it 3 times, and I'm still picking up on elements that I missed in previous readings.

  • "And yeah, Lolita wasn't the best, but it got a LOT better in the end"

    That's pretty much the exact opposite of my appreciation of this novel.

    And what the hell are you rambling about in this video?

  • You must think that Twilight was/is the greatest piece of literature ever written.

    P.S. "itsnotproper" to show such immature conceit to one of the most distinguished and accomplished of literary authors. It says very little about your character--or maybe a lot (mostly unflattering!).

  • This whole video just makes me angry. Lolita is a masterpiece, and it has a very special place in my heart. I don't think you know what you are talking about, and it made me sad when you tossed the book in a heap.

  • There are so many insults I'd love to throw at you, but I hardly believe 500 letters would cut it. In short, I'm 16 and immensely embarrassed for you.

  • Let me put this in the vocabulary you are comfortable with: epic fail.

  • lolita is pwned... well its nice to see that the expert use of the english language in lolita has been more than matched by the review

  • agreed.....very sad to see someone treating such beautiful prose with such ignorant disdain. And as for sleeping head to toe with some other fat retard.....beggars belief. Surely that's for 12 year olds who grow up to be as dysfunctional as this one. Bet she's still a virgin.

  • You are wrong. It is the best book.

  • It's not a hard book to get through in the least, the "lot of people" who have trouble getting through it are clearly idiots.

    "Lolita wasn't the best, but it got a LOT better in the end," ... Fucking ridiculous! The whole book is literary genius! A lot of people may not agree, but I personally think the first part of the book was 10 times better. Stick to Oprah's book club list...

  • you pronounced Dostoevsky incorrectly

  • It's pronounced closer to Vlah DEE mr Na BO kuff. And you were a little closer with Dostoevsky, but it's FYO dr Duh steye YEV ski.

    Also, you are a bit painful to watch... I always wonder why people make youtube vidoes about thinks they neither like nor understand. Nabokov isn't everyone's cup of tea but he certainly has no place being "PWNed" by a not particularly intelligent young girl.

  • Why would'nt someone be able to finish it? It is poetry!

  • You are a perfect imbecile to treat this book in that despicable manner. Cretinous American, the phenomenon of your being able to read at all is a wonder to the world.

  • @FreeKinker - Maybe she should read about black cock - that seems to help many white American women get out their guilt. Fucking whore.

  • Congratulations, genius, you pwned Nabokov. Next, whenever you have a few minutes of your valuable time to spare, you can pwn Shakespeare! This is so typical of today's arrogant and condescending, neo-feminist female, who literally has everything provided to her, for her by men, yet believes she's actually done something important by merely 'aping' the great work of men. What now? Perhaps you can stuff your fat ass with food, then brag that you've pwned farmers!

  • @SirFrancisDashwood15 - When I saw the close up of her face, I reached for my metal baseball bat.

  • This is wrong on so many levels... To start with the trivial, it's not pronounced "pawned", but "owned", because the expression itself originated in a typo.

    Your pronunciation of Dostoevsky doesn't sound that hot either...

    And I don't know what class for the mentally challenged you must be taking, but Lolita isn't the sort of book many people would find difficult to finish reading... But on that note, good job on humiliating your country (as if it needed any help) and age group, you philistine.

  • You get one star for insolently tossing one of the greatest books written in the english language over your shoulder. You shouldn't applaud yourself for managing to finish a book merely because people who are too stupid to appreciate it fail to accomplish the same thing. Oh well, at least you bother to read stuff.

  • beauty plus pity is the closest we can get to definition of art. where there is beauty, there is pity. the world dies with the individual.

    and you, dear miss, are extremely unpleasant.

  • If this is your way of dealing with world literature, I feel very sad for you. Next time, don't put it on youtube, you're making a fool of yourself.

  • you got some talent kid,pretty funny

  • no its good she posts this, I don't think there's anything wrong with mediocre minded people, there must be a reason nature creates so many, she's in the majority, after all. And she's kind of proud and satisfied being herself, that's pretty funny.

  • Just send your friend a private video! Don't embarrass yourself like that before the world!

  • moron. people like you are responsible for perpetuating negative stereotypes of Americans

  • Why did you throw that book like that? You'll break the binding. And you have to read it at least two more times, so if you damaged the binding it may fall apart on the second reading, and you'll either have to buy a second copy or deal with a bunch of loose pages for the third go-round.

    Don't abuse books! It's wrong.

  • let me guess...a business major?

  • Reading actual literature doesn't really seem to be your thing. If you're not going to try any harder than that, you should probably just stop.

    Next time you feel like reading a literary masterpiece, just watch some daytime television instead. I'm sure you'll find it fascinating.

  • Here in Mexico, the annual per capita reading rate is shameful: ONE book. So we "readers" tell a joke that goes: "Hey, pal, what can I give my dad for his birthday". "Try giving him a book, buddy". "What for? He already has one"... And sometimes it's miraculous that someone has even that one book. This lady is childisch and superficial, but at least she reads. Maybe books can teach her something with the passing of time, like for instance the true passion of literature.

  • In the art of reading, you have much to learn.

  • I do not think the purpose of reading anything, especially fine literature such as Lolita, is so one can finish it, or as you so delicately put it "pwned" it. One learns only the most superficial, surface meaning if one is reading just to finish.

  • You are in a bad way aren't you love?

  • What incredibly inept people do you know that can't finish a book like Lolita? Must they put Lolita down to pick up Harry Potter, once more? Lolita is an absurdly enthralling book, it truely fits the word 'masterpiece'. How you managed Dostoyevsky is beyond my comprehension, if you can barely manage Lolita, which was a pretty simple book.

  • I would just like to say that 'Vladimir Nabokov' and 'pwned' should not be in the same sentence.

    And also Bend Sinister, Pnin, Ada or Ardor, Mary and The Defence are just as incredibly engaging as Lolita.

  • read it at 14 and understood it no less.

    n00bs

  • I read Lolita in one day. I couldn't put it down. It's an awesome book!

  • If he were here, Nabokov would point to you as an excellent example of the American superficiality he so eloquently lamented. And he would have had an explosive belly- laugh over a lowest-common-denominator, pseudo-word/concept like 'Pwned'.

    Sad, but sadly predictable.

  • Your a stupid bitch.

    Thats all I have to say.

    :]

    Vladmir Nabokov's Lolita was a magnificent book.

    You however are GARB.

    G-A-R-B.

    L2Appreciate Beauty.

  • You're cute!

  • So I ask again, why would you attack me? Had I tried to discuss his theories of time, and was wrong, which I DIDN'T, then I'd say attack. But you didn't attack my opinions of his notions of time because I didn't write any! You attacked my WRITING STYLE in relation to A GENERAL RUNDOWN OF LOLITA'S IMPORTANCE. I don't know who you are, but you are quite obviously an intellectual gnat -- one of the many dilletante's who attaches themselves to conversations like this.

  • Dear girl in video:

    You are trash.

  • Ectoslavia, I do not understand your attack on me -- unless it has to do with the typo in my final comment: I said, "the hyperliterate ARE like Nabokov," but what i MEANT to say is, "the hyperliterate LIKE Nabokov." I would never deign to compare myself to him. AND I NEVER ONCE MENTIONED IN DEPTH HIS VIEWS ON TIME. Furthermore, his views on time, which can be found in depth in Ultima Thule and Speak Memory, were never fully developed, unlike Marcel's Proust's theories.

  • And to answer your question, Uke -- the hyperliterate are like Nabokov because of the effect his words have upon our very spine. While the subliterate often refer to Nabokov as their favorite author because Nabokov is known, sometimes, as the most enigmatic and demanding author of all time. I feel connected to him because he focuses on his deep loss and hard transitions, and I have lost a lot in the past few years. He speaks for those who long for the past to return. THOSE are his true readers.

  • Zach:

    You have only the faintest glimmering of an understanding of Nabokovian notions of time. You use too many words and say too little. Nabokov could create, destroy, and redeem a whole universe in the amount of space you spend clearing your throat and announcing your own importance.

  • And one last comment. If you did read it carefully and diligently, you would've picked up on the correct pronunciation of her name on the first page of Humbert Humbert's "confession". It's pronounced "Luhlita", with a very soft and sensually lulling into the two taps of the "lita". Anyone can read Lolita, but there are few who understand it. So, as far as your "pwnage" goes, I'd say think again.

  • Another important aspect of Nabokov's writing is how he designs his books. They ARE butterflies. You cannot possibly absorb everything he's written in one reading. Rather reading his books is like a metamophoses -- the larve, the caterpillar, the cacoon, and finally the bright and gorgeous butterfly that emerges -- artistic epiphany. Try reading it 3 more times, and THEN share your "thoughts".

  • To help you with your understanding of it, I suggest watching the film "Dead Man Walking". And perhaps most important is the impetus for this book: The first drawing ever produced by a gorilla was of the bars of its cage. Nabokov read this article in the London times when he was living in Paris, and the effect on his was as glass breaking. And Lolita was born.

  • His name is pronounced Vla-DI-mir Na-BOA-kov -- the second syllable is most often stressed in Russian names; the "boa" is not hard, but unassuming. Congratulations on finishing it. You're right when you say "not many do", but you didn't share any of your thoughts on it, simply that the book has been "pwned". In the case of Lolita, the most controversial book yet written in the English language, that people are perpetually stumped and, if not stumped, then thoroughly apalled and disgusted by it.

  • Hmmm. Why is it that many (not all) of Nabokov's defenders here seem either subliterate or/and (yes, "and" in certain cases) hyperliterate? Oh, the theories we could spin!

  • I think it's much more fun spinning insults. I would also say that defending Nabokov should be secondary to offending her.

  • Another suggestion:

    Sodomized by: Andrei Chikatilo, Jefrey Damer, Richard Ramirez and all F**** up al Qaeda Team. then you DIE again, again, and AGAIN. then you see yourself in a white room surrunded by lights and see a Adolf just Waiting and watching you.

    Ps: DIE IN HELL

  • That the foregoing occurs, is the prayer of Captain Pie-Pants.

  • You are the reason I hate You Tube. Thanks for reminding me.

  • were taking the hobbits to isengaard haha i've heard it rofl and shes cute i'll do her

  • Why does it sound like you are about to cry every second.

  • i hope you die and are repeatedly sodomized in hell by Hitler.

  • You get 1 star you stupid bitch.

  • You exemplify flagrant stupidity. You're of the queer commingled kind; a self opinionated doughy daw. That contemptible and haughty display in your video could also serve as a death knell for a dull dud such as yourself if you ever feel charitable towards the society.

  • You're a slobbering moron; a drooling non brow vulgarian wishing she were an estimable high brow, and who posts obnoxious videos that affront the ability to tolerate, and tickle the nerve to berate, in the more intelligible kind. Watching an eyesore of a sow such as youself, challenges the rage in me. That a hefty porcine phiz may drool from its loose floppy jowl such shite regarding Nabokov, is a true offense.

  • This is a 300 page book filled with very manageable prose. Some would call it a page turner. You 'pwned' nothing. If the only thing you took was that this was a "very sad book," you need to read it again and enjoy it.

  • ah, to be an undergraduate again...

  • Jesus, I tried to see what youtube had on Nabokov, and this is what I get.

  • and the gold medal for 'most formidable contender' in this year's pseudo-intellectual masturbate-a-thon goes to...

  • you are a fucking dumb cunt.

  • it's kinda ridiculous how humans think it an achievement to have read a lot of books. i like books and all but why would reading be grounds for bragging?

  • typical US teenager

  • As a US teenager, I find it's hardly fair for you to generalize an entire population of people due to the idiocy of one person who unfortunately has access to a webcam. :)

  • Nabokov famously remarked that, properly speaking, a book can only be RE-read.

    I'd recommend that you re-read Lolita in the annotated edition by Alfred Appel Jr.

    I'd certainly also recommend that you read Pnin and Pale Fire.

  • try reading PALE FIRE or ADA and see if you can "pwn" them.

  • especially Ada, that is a monster, but its beautifully written.

  • I just finished Despair and am about to start Ada. I love Vladimir's work. He was a literary gem.

  • DESPAIR has got to be one of the funniest books ever written. oh, that blasted stick! ADA, on the other hand, is a lovely beast of a novel. watch out for kim and his camera ; )

  • When people comment that you don't understand the book, they're not saying that you couldn't follow what happens plot-wise within the text, but that you don't understand what the book is trying to achieve. There is much more to Lolita than its wonderful prose.

    And you can dislike or like the book all you want, but you seem to have nothing interesting to say about it.

  • As a relative of Nabokov I find myself thoroughly unamused by this travesty of a video. You attempt to combine the word "pwned" - the nadir of all internet phenomena - with one of the greatest literary works of the 20th century. The feeble attempt at bubblegum light humour belongs firmly within the Dolores Haze mould.

    I found myself reminded throughout of the arrogant American class shepherdess preaching prophetically to her cretinous flock.

  • wow, what precision!

  • Um... It seems this vid is meant in the lightest of comedy, but I am still having trouble... A mispronounciation of a misspelling is intended to be a punchline? Hrm... obviously I don't understand, but more power to you for doing it.

    Cheers!

  • Holy crap I hope you become a nurse or something because you are a fuck. Lolita is not a persuasive essay! "The art form of writing" is wrong on so many levels it gives me brain freeze when I think about it, though I try not to and it still follows me around, bullying my shadow, giving me headaches, causing me to hope for plagues. I suggest you stick to Dickens.
  • haha wtf?!?! people have trouble finishing it? it's not gravity's rainbow you retard.

  • Haha. I didn't find it difficult to get through because I didn't understand it, I just found a lot of the exposition uninteresting.

  • @itsnotproper .......oh dear.....exposition..now there's a big word. You areally are an arse. I'm hoping you've killed yourself by now?

  • Lolita is masterful, I grimaced a little when I saw you throw it. I don't know what to say.

  • It was all in good fun. My copy of Lolita understands. You know, sorta like good friends joking around.

  • Lolita hates you and isn't your friend. Your analogy has no knees.

  • i grimaced too.

  • God you're moronic, it was painful to watch that. Stop reading.

  • lol, so funny how you threw the book away. pwned! great novel though ;)

  • It's pronounced something like vlad-eem-eer nab-awk-off. Unfortunately the final v is soft in Russian and exceptionally difficult to pronounce correctly. Also the o in Nabokov is pronounced somewhere between an 'a' and an 'o'.

  • Thanks. I sometimes have trouble with English words let alone ones from a different language.

  • @gbjornstrand Nabokov is pronounced "na BOH kov." Quite simple. Vladimir is essentially phonetic.

  • please pronounce dostoyevsky properly. and i recommend laughter in the dark. a much easier read by nabokov.

  • Yeah? I was considering reading some of his short stories as well.

    Also, sorry for the pronunciation, as I'm not exposed to a lot of Russian it's a challenge to get those things right.

  • bend sinister is an interesting story, but i think laughter would entertain you more. the world of nabokov gets huger as you look further....too bad everyone only thinks of lolita..

  • geez you call that brains?

  • Congrats on finishing Lolita. And kudos for mentioning the author's author, Fyodor Dostoyevsky! Truly one of the greatest writers of all time. Now that you've "pwned" Nabokov, you can turn your energy to Crime and Punishment, or, even better, The Insulted and Injured... masterpieces.

    "lolita was pwned" hilarious!!! lol

    thanks for a great vid!

  • You should read an article by Jose Ortega y Gasset titled "The Dehumanization of Art" the author says there that the books which makes you angry or irritated are those which you don't understand.

    (sorry if I made any ortografic mistakes. English is not my native language).

  • I honestly don't understand why people think I can't just not like a book. I mean, in all fairness, I LIKED Lolita, but mainly because Nabokov is a wonderful writer. And it's not like I didn't understand it. But frankly, Nabokov writes above all for the sake of the art form of writing, which is VERY different from most of the books I have read before. A little tough to get through.

  • Ahh! You THREW Lolita! TWICE! TWICE! Gratuitous and unkind!

    No really, why such hard feelings towards Lolita? I love that book. I love everything by Vladimir Nabokov! My favorite author! I wasn't aware that people found his books (at least not that book) hard to get through. Really, did you not like it?

  • No, I liked it. I just found a lot of the exposition in the middle a little hard to get through.

    I do have to say that Nabokov is one of the best writers I've ever read, but I know that he writes sometimes merely for the artform of writing, not even to prove a point. So occasionally I found some of the explanations a little long winded and lacking purpose.

    But no, I definitely liked it, it just took me so long to get through that I was proud to finish. ;)

  • I definatly liked your referance to C&P in there. Great flashbacks of AP English right then.....well...mostly the flashback of, "With our minds combind we are an almost average student!!!" yea....

  • Hahahahaha.

    And "Duty"!

    Oh man, I LOVED that class!

  • That's better.

  • Hahaha. You're the best for still commenting on this. :D

  • This isn't a video response, dork!!

  • Oops!

    Oh man, how could I forget that!

    I must have been really distracted or something...

  • I'm so glad to be alive!

    PS. I am not reading Lolita. It's coming OFF the visual bookshelf!

  • Hahaha.

    I'm so glad I could save you!

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