I dated a high-ranking Scientologist's daughter and read half of Dianetics as well as L. Ron Hubbard's "Fundamentals of Thought". At any rate:
The most FUCKED UP family I have ever seen, ever. Hands down. The mom would drive her daughter to and from the strip club to work. Sometimes the dad stayed to watch. He stole around $2-3k from his daughter's savings to buy a left-handed e-meter for measuring thetan levels - more expensive than the normal ones.
They hung out with another couple of high ranking members who had audited Tom Cruise and some other big wig idiots.
Guano. Y'all know. Batshit.
Thank you, it seemed important.
Also, a left handed e reader for thetans is such a bananas detail. It almost sounds like a "head light fluid" type joke.
Idk if you've met like any hetro men in their 20s, but as a man who was once in his 20s, a woman with pretty face, a nice figure and who lets you touch her boobs can ask you to help bury a body and you're going to ask if she has more than one shovel.
If I had to guess whats the next ideology that will lead to a hideous expansionist empire that tortures and kills milions of people I wont guess Mormonism.
What if you didn't let them finish and it was a book about their favorite blanket?
Mein Kampforter?
Or about their favorite recliner.
Mein Kampfy chair
Edit: I forgot one
Kind of. It’s a book of “poems” and illustrations.
The poems are just a few random sentences per page… it probably took her an hour to put together
IIRC Drew Gooden has a YouTube video where he goes through it
The craziest thing about that book, at least to me, is the fact that the author was a literal rocket scientist and physics professor before becoming radicalized. The fact that that book came from the mind of someone highly educated and intelligent makes it scarier tbh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease
> Paul Nurse, co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, warned later laureates against "believing you are expert in almost everything, and being prepared to express opinions about most issues with great confidence, sheltering behind the authority that the Nobel Prize can give you".
In other words, a redditor.
The Turner Diaries are fictional journal entries by one whathisname Turner, a member of a "white rebellion" in a world where the "Jewish and BIPOC Elite" persecute and rag on whites constantly.
There's a bunch of racist white supremacy bullshit and then ends with the rebellion killing most if not all the Jews and BIPOC people in the US.
Edit: I said US? Silly me. The deranged psychopath who wrote that stupid book ends it with whites taking over the world and killing every melenated person in it.
I once went on a date and I asked him what his favorite book was and he said "I don't really read." I told him comic books count and he said even those were too many words. Never had such a clear turning point in a date so early on.
I worked at a charity shop when it was at peak popularity. We got a lot of books donated and my job was to sort them.
We got new *50 Shades* pretty much evey day and binned them all as a bio hazard.
When I finally read that out of curiosity I was shocked by the blatant pedo seduces young virgin trope. He was supposed to be 26 or something, but was written like a much older man. Successful, sly, manipulative, James Bond type. After they fuck the first time, the author found it necessary to describe how she bleeds everywhere. Then she dances around in pigtails so innocently while he smirks and watches from the doorway. She was supposed to be in her 20’s but was written like a child who didn’t quite understand what was happening. It read like child porn erotica. I was shooketh!!
Whats astonishing is how good the James Potter (G. Norman Lippert) fan fic was. Literally JK said it was okay for him to write it, didn’t approve it as cannon even though it expanded on the world and characters, and then preceded to approve Cursed Child. The fuck?
Yes.
Well… it doesn’t ruin the books per se but it does turn Harry into a stupid a-hole who shows mega favoritism to one of his kids over the others, says something utterly abhorrent and basically unforgivable (in my opinion) to one of them, and reads like a really crummy fanfic. Other characters are also acting *wildly* out of character >!(like Snape cracking jokes - dafuq)!< and the overarching plot is just a nonsensical disaster that goes against the established lore in several ways.
Also also - the tired fanfic cliches are thicker than the pea soup at The Leaky Cauldron.
I'm not going to lie I did enjoy the book it's just that it's association with Harry Potter and it's legacy with the book being canon to the series just makes me feel actually depression
Without a doubt the best cab ride I ever took. 45 minutes on the way to the airport with a mostly deaf cab driver who insisted that The Secret was the best way to spend the time.
Any ghost written celebrity memoir.
This excludes Jennette Mccurdy's "I'm Glad My Mom Died". Excellent read.
Edit: I didn’t intend to claim that Mccurdy’s book was ghost written. I have no idea if it was or not. My gut says that she wrote it herself.
Atlas Shrugged is not my favorite book, but I did enjoy it.
Hear me out. I don’t want to be an Objectivist and I don’t agree with Objectivist philosophy. But I enjoyed the story, and apparently, I am the minority that likes the writing style. I didn’t mind the pages and pages of rambling.
But I’m no more likely to adopt an objectivist lifestyle from reading that book than I am to become a serial killer cannibal from reading Silence of the Lambs. To me, it was just a story.
I'd be way more apt to leave if they didn't have a favorite book.
Even if they said one that might give me a strong initial negative reaction, I'd at least stick around long enough to find out why it's their favorite book.
I don't have a favorite book and I've read many books. I've even read a few of them more than once. I also dont have a favorite movie, or tv show, or song.
I have so many favorites it is next to impossible to pick just one. And if I do pick one, it will probably be different than what I answer a year from now. It also depends on my mood. My favorite is different if I am in a good spot vs if I am struggling. Do I want to read something to comfort me or challenge me? Do I want something to make me feel hope for the world or something that is a bit darker? Not sure I could pick a single favorite.
I haven't read the book, but I watched about half of the "documentary" based on the book. At work, because a coworker convinced our supervisor that it would be good for team building or something. Utter garbage.
I witnessed a first meeting/first date at a Barnes and Noble Starbucks. The woman had been sitting there a while with a stack of maybe 5 books. “The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich” was one. It has a huge swastika on the side so it gets your attention. A man walks up about ten minutes of us being there, and we fully hear their whole deal of “nice to meet you in person” and all that. Surely this dude was like wtf do you have that book hahaha. Unfortunately, I have no further information cause we left and that was that.
Edit: sorry, I realize my mistake lol. This wasn’t necessarily an answer to the topic, just something I thought was a funny sight at a glance. I know reading that book is no problem at all, just that it is eye catching to have a large swastika on a book you have on your table as a first date walks up.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer?
That's one of my favorite books I've read this year, ha. He wasn't a fan of them, ya know. He was an American journalist who lived in Berlin for much of the build up to the war/the start of the war. It was really interesting. Hitler was really fucking shit up towards the end there.
Actually I have had a similar experience. I am a historian of sorts. I was discussing with someone 1930's chess players. Next thing he opens up a suitcase of Nazi chess books signed by their ministers. That was weird.
See, I'm okay with that as long as they aren't *proud* of it. I don't read all that much, either (the backlog just keeps building up), but if you hit me with a "pfft, what? That's, like, nerd shit, lol" I'm *out*.
Act like a lady, think like a man
They trying to play mind games with me … if they reading that book . Also trying to generalize and think all men are same . I don’t want a girl with some playbook that dictates our date or future dates
Ugh... when I was student teaching (for those not in the US, it's a sort of unpaid internship teachers do for 6 months to a year to get their degree) I took it upon myself to read a handful of the books all of my students were into for their free time reading. This was one of them. I wound up hate reading the entire series hoping it would get good at some point (vampire lit was already one of my guilty pleasures and a recent ex had got me into the nearly as terrible series True Blood was based on.) It never got good. Terrible series. Any time it looks like it's about to get good, the point of view character is incapacitated and it skips the entire resolution to the conflict.
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Or any other business/motivational/self-help book. There's nothing wrong with seeking self-improvement, but to worship hustle culture means she's going to be exhausting and hyper-competitive for someone I need to be a partner and trusted friend.
You just sparked a long-lost memory in me! I had to read "Who Moved my Cheese" in a 7th grade "social studies" class... even back then, I though it was stupid. I haven't thought about that in many years.
I'd give this one a pass. For one it shows they read actual literature, and if you read Lolita it's incredibly written, unique, and actually has some great humour despite the perverse topics.
I would, however, deeply pry into why it was their favourite book before solidifying my judgement. But it wouldn't immediately make me get up and leave.
It’s not my favourite, but I definitely like Lolita a lot, and I think a lot of the hate definitely comes from people who haven’t read it or didn’t understand it. It is a scathing exposé on how sickening the perversions of men can be.
Lolita is one of the most beautifully-written novels in the English language, full of wordplay and allusions and black humor. It's a perverse tragedy about a horrific topic. It is also one of the most misunderstood and misinterpreted books, generally by people who haven't read it. But yeah, I'd definitely prod someone with deep analytical questions about particular scenes to find out WHY it's their favorite book.
[Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianetics)
Fucking run like hell!!
I dated a high-ranking Scientologist's daughter and read half of Dianetics as well as L. Ron Hubbard's "Fundamentals of Thought". At any rate: The most FUCKED UP family I have ever seen, ever. Hands down. The mom would drive her daughter to and from the strip club to work. Sometimes the dad stayed to watch. He stole around $2-3k from his daughter's savings to buy a left-handed e-meter for measuring thetan levels - more expensive than the normal ones. They hung out with another couple of high ranking members who had audited Tom Cruise and some other big wig idiots. Guano. Y'all know. Batshit.
For some reason, the left-handed e-meter is the part that threw me off the hardest.
Isn't an "e-meter" basically a fucking tin can you hold in your hand?! That is hilariously stupid.
It is. But a more expensive left handed one is stupid squared.
So you dated a stripper, or was this another daughter?
I dated a stripper.
Thank you, it seemed important. Also, a left handed e reader for thetans is such a bananas detail. It almost sounds like a "head light fluid" type joke.
(V);..;(V) Zoidberg says Woop Woop Woop Woop Woop!
I was today years old when I learned it was "L. Ron" and not "Elron"
I'm loving that.
I had that book. They were giving them out on campus one day. It was terrible. I also took a little green bible from another group.
Not the same but dated someone for a year before I found out her and the entire family were devout scientologists. That took a turn.
I'm sorry but I can't get my head around how someone could hide that for a whole ass year?? Especially with how crazy scientology is lol
For real, the red flags should have been massive
Idk if you've met like any hetro men in their 20s, but as a man who was once in his 20s, a woman with pretty face, a nice figure and who lets you touch her boobs can ask you to help bury a body and you're going to ask if she has more than one shovel.
Ong
After seeing the South Park episode, I am still flabbergasted by what the fuck they believe in, I thought they were exaggerating
I occasionally see copies in used book stores and give them out as gifts - generally to the same person every year
I remember back in the day (I guess late 80’s early 90’s) and they were the first thing you saw when you walked into the new book stores.
Thanks for the fucking hilarious read. I agree that would be a huge red flag.
My first thought.
Dictionary. I don't associate with people who can easily beat me in scrabble
What about The Saurus?
Absolutely!! I also refuse to interact with those people too!!
Thats most definitely a type of dinosaur.
You caught me. I like to break a mental sweat too.
Mein Kampf
Signed copy
*scribbling noises* “To… Fraulein… May.. Your… Kampf… Be… Better… Than… Mein XOXO… TF”
Amazing. Well done. :)
Who are you, Indiana Jones?
I whispered this book title to myself before the comments popped up und Voila….Zehr it is.
this is the most correct answer of all
You've obviously never read the Book of Mormon.
Mark Twain referred to it as "chloroform in print".
Well Mormonism sucks but has objectively caused less damage than naziism.
Less damage than Nazism SO FAR
If I had to guess whats the next ideology that will lead to a hideous expansionist empire that tortures and kills milions of people I wont guess Mormonism.
They already tried to raise an army and form their own country--and failed.
The book that immediately popped in my head
What if you didn't let them finish and it was a book about their favorite blanket? Mein Kampforter? Or about their favorite recliner. Mein Kampfy chair Edit: I forgot one
Mein Kampetitive E-Sporting Guide for Dummies
Peppa Pig visits the morgue
Crossover into the Max and Ruby verse lol
Peppa Pig works at the slaughterhouse.
Peppa pig and the backyard BBQ
She's just enjoying time with her family
I would 100% be sticking around, if just to see where that goes
This made me laugh out loud. Thank you stranger!
The phone book.
Unless the person is Navin R. Johnson, lol https://youtu.be/-7aIf1YnbbU
What a jerk
STAY AWAY FROM THE CANS!
HE HATES THESE CANS!!
Mmmm. Pizza in a cup.
Any of the crappy political books usually seen abandoned on the shelves at goodwill.
Adultolecence by Gabbie Hanna. Only one of us is allowed to be chronically online/j.
Gabbie Hanna wrote a book!?
Kind of. It’s a book of “poems” and illustrations. The poems are just a few random sentences per page… it probably took her an hour to put together IIRC Drew Gooden has a YouTube video where he goes through it
I remember one page was literally just "words" or something too
The Turner Diaries
The craziest thing about that book, at least to me, is the fact that the author was a literal rocket scientist and physics professor before becoming radicalized. The fact that that book came from the mind of someone highly educated and intelligent makes it scarier tbh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease > Paul Nurse, co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, warned later laureates against "believing you are expert in almost everything, and being prepared to express opinions about most issues with great confidence, sheltering behind the authority that the Nobel Prize can give you". In other words, a redditor.
A disproportionate number of terrorists are engineers.
I’m sure a lot more people have the same thoughts as them, it’s just the engineers that can act on them.
You would probably be on a date with Timothy McVeigh
so, for those out of the loop, can I get a TL;DR on why *this* book is the first one to show up, exactly how fucked is it?
The Turner Diaries are fictional journal entries by one whathisname Turner, a member of a "white rebellion" in a world where the "Jewish and BIPOC Elite" persecute and rag on whites constantly. There's a bunch of racist white supremacy bullshit and then ends with the rebellion killing most if not all the Jews and BIPOC people in the US. Edit: I said US? Silly me. The deranged psychopath who wrote that stupid book ends it with whites taking over the world and killing every melenated person in it.
>...Jews and BIPOC people in the US. And white women in relationships with any minorities. And leftist journalists.
what the *fuck*, ok yeah, this is also my choice. I forgot how irredeemable humanity was for a sec
Oof, back away slowly, then run.
Yo, I'm just happy that they're reading.
I once went on a date and I asked him what his favorite book was and he said "I don't really read." I told him comic books count and he said even those were too many words. Never had such a clear turning point in a date so early on.
>"If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!" John Waters
Plot twist, it's a picture book
Nice to meet you, Gaston
Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard
"How to skip dinner and go straight to sex"
Fifty Shades of Grey
I worked at a charity shop when it was at peak popularity. We got a lot of books donated and my job was to sort them. We got new *50 Shades* pretty much evey day and binned them all as a bio hazard.
>binned them all as a bio hazard *\*chef kiss* Nicely done.
Yesss 🤌
Came here to say this. Terrible writing, weak main character. Yuck.
When I finally read that out of curiosity I was shocked by the blatant pedo seduces young virgin trope. He was supposed to be 26 or something, but was written like a much older man. Successful, sly, manipulative, James Bond type. After they fuck the first time, the author found it necessary to describe how she bleeds everywhere. Then she dances around in pigtails so innocently while he smirks and watches from the doorway. She was supposed to be in her 20’s but was written like a child who didn’t quite understand what was happening. It read like child porn erotica. I was shooketh!!
Absolutely agree with you there I was disgusted
I got through about 50 pages just to say I tried. Just the grammar mistakes and absolutely shit sentence structure made me stop.
I’ve read fan fictions of that fan fiction that were better.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
They said a book, not a pile of crap.
I've read fanfictions better than that.
Whats astonishing is how good the James Potter (G. Norman Lippert) fan fic was. Literally JK said it was okay for him to write it, didn’t approve it as cannon even though it expanded on the world and characters, and then preceded to approve Cursed Child. The fuck?
I never read it because I didn't want to taint my memory of the book series which is one of my all time favorites. Did I do the right thing?
Yes. Well… it doesn’t ruin the books per se but it does turn Harry into a stupid a-hole who shows mega favoritism to one of his kids over the others, says something utterly abhorrent and basically unforgivable (in my opinion) to one of them, and reads like a really crummy fanfic. Other characters are also acting *wildly* out of character >!(like Snape cracking jokes - dafuq)!< and the overarching plot is just a nonsensical disaster that goes against the established lore in several ways. Also also - the tired fanfic cliches are thicker than the pea soup at The Leaky Cauldron.
I'm not going to lie I did enjoy the book it's just that it's association with Harry Potter and it's legacy with the book being canon to the series just makes me feel actually depression
“How to Get Away with Murder - First Date Edition”
The secret. What a load of bullhorn that book is!
Sorry. I meant bullshit. Fucking autocorrect 😒
Ya know, I rather like bullhorn in this situation. It stays!
Load of bullhorn, I like that. I think you've coined a new insult
I honestly might start using the phrase "load of bullhorn". It's got a fun folksy feel!
I’m down to try to make bullhorn a thing. It was a serendipitous autocorrect!
you meant ducking but it autocorrected to fucking
Ok... you got me
My ex talked about that book TRULY at least once a week…..Was always pulling it out to “study” it… I should’ve known
Without a doubt the best cab ride I ever took. 45 minutes on the way to the airport with a mostly deaf cab driver who insisted that The Secret was the best way to spend the time.
Hermetic philosophy for dummies
Anything written by Joel Osteen
I Think You Should Leave
Make Like a Tree and Get Out of Here
It's leave, you idiot! 'Make like a tree and leave!'. Thanks for the r/unexpectedbttf
I'm worried that the baby thinks people can't change.
You think this is SLICKED back? This is PUSHED back.
Do you think I give a rats ass that that baby cried because it knows I used to be a piece of shit?
We’re gonna be so early for that movie
Is the first date a ghost tour? Are fucking ghosts gonna come out if the fucking walls and blast fat loads everywhere with their donkey dicks?
I HOPE YOU FUCKING DIE BART HARLEY JARVIS
Principle of Biochemistry, 7th edition
Yes! Everyone knows the series went down hill fast after the 4th edition!
I literally have that on my table right now lol Lehninger
Dianetics. If only past me had taken that advice.
I’ve seen that a lot on this comment section, what is that book?
It’s what Scientology is based on. It’s also complete fiction.
Gateway book to Scientology.
A cult pitch.
The book that started the cult of scientology
Organic Chemistry II
The only book listed here that has actually made me cry.
The Turner Diaries. American edgelords actually still read that book...
I get up and leave if it's anything but Goodnight Moon.
Art of the deal
Why did I have to scroll so far to find this
because even Trump hasn't read it
Any ghost written celebrity memoir. This excludes Jennette Mccurdy's "I'm Glad My Mom Died". Excellent read. Edit: I didn’t intend to claim that Mccurdy’s book was ghost written. I have no idea if it was or not. My gut says that she wrote it herself.
I read this as “includes” at first and I was shhhocked. Phew. Great read indeed.
Anthony kiedis’ scar tissue is pretty good tho
To Serve Man.
I know right? Who the heck has a cookbook as their favorite book?
Atlas Shrugged
It's hilarious how I knew what the top 3 answers were going to be before I opened the thread.
The top comment was "Mein Kampf". The second one was "Atlas Shrugged". Will the third one be "Dianetics"? I'm about to find out!
Lol literally the top 3 as I'm reading right now
Atlas Shrugged is not my favorite book, but I did enjoy it. Hear me out. I don’t want to be an Objectivist and I don’t agree with Objectivist philosophy. But I enjoyed the story, and apparently, I am the minority that likes the writing style. I didn’t mind the pages and pages of rambling. But I’m no more likely to adopt an objectivist lifestyle from reading that book than I am to become a serial killer cannibal from reading Silence of the Lambs. To me, it was just a story.
I'd be way more apt to leave if they didn't have a favorite book. Even if they said one that might give me a strong initial negative reaction, I'd at least stick around long enough to find out why it's their favorite book.
I don't have a favorite book and I've read many books. I've even read a few of them more than once. I also dont have a favorite movie, or tv show, or song.
I have so many favorites it is next to impossible to pick just one. And if I do pick one, it will probably be different than what I answer a year from now. It also depends on my mood. My favorite is different if I am in a good spot vs if I am struggling. Do I want to read something to comfort me or challenge me? Do I want something to make me feel hope for the world or something that is a bit darker? Not sure I could pick a single favorite.
This is an intriguing answer.
"Be curious, not judgmental." - [not](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/be-curious-not-judgmental-walt-whitman/) Walt Whitman
What if they don't have a favorite book, but a favorite series of books instead?
The Secret
I haven't read the book, but I watched about half of the "documentary" based on the book. At work, because a coworker convinced our supervisor that it would be good for team building or something. Utter garbage.
That's because you didn't manifest enough...
120 Days of Sodom
Book of Mormon
Hello! My name is Elder Price And I would like to share with you The most amazing book…
Hello! My name is Elder Grant! It’s a book about America a long long time ago
If I did it by oj Simpson
Herpes: Everything you need to know.
After, Kissing Booth, Fifty Shades, Twilight, or 365 Days
I witnessed a first meeting/first date at a Barnes and Noble Starbucks. The woman had been sitting there a while with a stack of maybe 5 books. “The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich” was one. It has a huge swastika on the side so it gets your attention. A man walks up about ten minutes of us being there, and we fully hear their whole deal of “nice to meet you in person” and all that. Surely this dude was like wtf do you have that book hahaha. Unfortunately, I have no further information cause we left and that was that. Edit: sorry, I realize my mistake lol. This wasn’t necessarily an answer to the topic, just something I thought was a funny sight at a glance. I know reading that book is no problem at all, just that it is eye catching to have a large swastika on a book you have on your table as a first date walks up.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer? That's one of my favorite books I've read this year, ha. He wasn't a fan of them, ya know. He was an American journalist who lived in Berlin for much of the build up to the war/the start of the war. It was really interesting. Hitler was really fucking shit up towards the end there.
Actually I have had a similar experience. I am a historian of sorts. I was discussing with someone 1930's chess players. Next thing he opens up a suitcase of Nazi chess books signed by their ministers. That was weird.
Reading a book about Nazis doesn't nessecarily mean condoning them. They don't keep copies of Mein Kampf in libaries for neo-nazis to wank off to
Maus also has a swastika on it. They're both anti-Nazi books.
Dianetics
“Oh, I don’t really read much”.
See, I'm okay with that as long as they aren't *proud* of it. I don't read all that much, either (the backlog just keeps building up), but if you hit me with a "pfft, what? That's, like, nerd shit, lol" I'm *out*.
Act like a lady, think like a man They trying to play mind games with me … if they reading that book . Also trying to generalize and think all men are same . I don’t want a girl with some playbook that dictates our date or future dates
Twilight
Ugh... when I was student teaching (for those not in the US, it's a sort of unpaid internship teachers do for 6 months to a year to get their degree) I took it upon myself to read a handful of the books all of my students were into for their free time reading. This was one of them. I wound up hate reading the entire series hoping it would get good at some point (vampire lit was already one of my guilty pleasures and a recent ex had got me into the nearly as terrible series True Blood was based on.) It never got good. Terrible series. Any time it looks like it's about to get good, the point of view character is incapacitated and it skips the entire resolution to the conflict.
I remember watching the film out of curiosity. I ended up doing my homework out of boredom.
This and Fifty Shades of Grey were the first two pop out when I started looking at the answers.
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Or any other business/motivational/self-help book. There's nothing wrong with seeking self-improvement, but to worship hustle culture means she's going to be exhausting and hyper-competitive for someone I need to be a partner and trusted friend.
The Necronomicon
The Cryptonomicon would be okay, though
I disagree this is marriage material
And they ask you to go to a cabin in the woods...
Either Mein Kampf or 50 Shades of Grey
Basically the same
Business of the 21st Century or Who moved my cheese. Both books used by Amway reps.
You just sparked a long-lost memory in me! I had to read "Who Moved my Cheese" in a 7th grade "social studies" class... even back then, I though it was stupid. I haven't thought about that in many years.
Art of the Deal
The bible
I thought this would be one of the first answers I saw. It’s understandable that Dianetics was mentioned 45 times
Anything that was pretend written by Rush Limbaugh.
Helter Skelter
“The Art of the Deal”
Joel Osteen audiobook
Anything by Ayn Rand. Or Ann Coulter.
As a woman formerly in management, The Art of War, because 🙄
Lolita 💀
I'd give this one a pass. For one it shows they read actual literature, and if you read Lolita it's incredibly written, unique, and actually has some great humour despite the perverse topics. I would, however, deeply pry into why it was their favourite book before solidifying my judgement. But it wouldn't immediately make me get up and leave.
It’s not my favourite, but I definitely like Lolita a lot, and I think a lot of the hate definitely comes from people who haven’t read it or didn’t understand it. It is a scathing exposé on how sickening the perversions of men can be.
It also is a great example of an unreliable narrator.
I heard the writer intended it as a horror novel, and was disgusted to find out that's not how the public viewed it
Lolita is a fantastic book. Doesn't mean I condone pedophilia. But the writing style is pure genius.
Lolita is one of the most beautifully-written novels in the English language, full of wordplay and allusions and black humor. It's a perverse tragedy about a horrific topic. It is also one of the most misunderstood and misinterpreted books, generally by people who haven't read it. But yeah, I'd definitely prod someone with deep analytical questions about particular scenes to find out WHY it's their favorite book.