I’m currently reading “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov and I’m uncomfortably enjoying it, any book recommendations that are unsettling by reading the description but good when you’ve actually read it?
Ugh I’m halfway through this book and I’m hoping it gets better.
If you’re looking for blameless fantasy try The End of Alice
Messed up childhoods try Flowers in the Attic
Something gross, Cows by Stoke
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The bell jar and catcher in the rye and asking for it by Louise o neill
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Strangely, Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. Also even more strangely, The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood.
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The Collector by John Fowles
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The Lover-Marguerite Duras
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Do you read French?
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Endless Love, by Scott Spencer
Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann
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Putney, Ada or ador,
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the genre of these types of books are called psychological thrillers and the narrative is called unreliable narrator, i love them! i’m currently reading tampa by alissa nutting, the mc is a deranged teacher that is attracted to prepubescent boys and is constantly preying on her students. i read a book called “being lolita” by alisson wood late september last year, it’s a book about a girl being groomed by her teacher, he uses the book lolita to groom her. i also read “my dark vanessa” by kate elizabeth russell last year in february, it’s sort of the same thing as being lolita and the books pov is in the present and past. if you choose to read any of these books i hope you enjoy them!
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It doesn’t come up in the description but Love in the Time of Cholera has some morally questionable characters. Reminded me of Lolita in some parts.
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*Tampa* by Alissa Nutting shares much in common with *Lolita*, in that it’s about a much older, sexually depraved woman seducing a teenage boy and is filled with beautifully troubling prose.
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Kindred by Octavia Butler is a very uncomfortable read and also an amazing book
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Tampa by Alyssa Nutting. Kind of a gender swap Lolita
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My Dark Vanessa
Belladonna by Karen Moline
Mysterious skin.
Ugh I’m halfway through this book and I’m hoping it gets better.
If you’re looking for blameless fantasy try The End of Alice
Messed up childhoods try Flowers in the Attic
Something gross, Cows by Stoke
The bell jar and catcher in the rye and asking for it by Louise o neill
Strangely, Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. Also even more strangely, The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood.
The Collector by John Fowles
The Lover-Marguerite Duras
Do you read French?
Endless Love, by Scott Spencer
Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann
Putney, Ada or ador,
the genre of these types of books are called psychological thrillers and the narrative is called unreliable narrator, i love them! i’m currently reading tampa by alissa nutting, the mc is a deranged teacher that is attracted to prepubescent boys and is constantly preying on her students. i read a book called “being lolita” by alisson wood late september last year, it’s a book about a girl being groomed by her teacher, he uses the book lolita to groom her. i also read “my dark vanessa” by kate elizabeth russell last year in february, it’s sort of the same thing as being lolita and the books pov is in the present and past. if you choose to read any of these books i hope you enjoy them!
It doesn’t come up in the description but Love in the Time of Cholera has some morally questionable characters. Reminded me of Lolita in some parts.
*Tampa* by Alissa Nutting shares much in common with *Lolita*, in that it’s about a much older, sexually depraved woman seducing a teenage boy and is filled with beautifully troubling prose.
Kindred by Octavia Butler is a very uncomfortable read and also an amazing book
Tampa by Alyssa Nutting. Kind of a gender swap Lolita