In Its Purest Form(lareviewofbooks.org)
29 points by lermontov 25 days ago | 2 comments
fifticon 24 days ago
peoples' outrage at this book appears to be inversely proportional to how much they have read or understood it.
Tade0 24 days ago
Similar thing, though due to different reasons, with Mein Kampf - I seriously doubt more than a minor fraction of all neonazis read the whole thing because:

1. It's a brick at ~780 pages in the full text version.

2. The Austrian painter was an even worse writer and the book reads like a huge rant the likes of which you could read on Voat back when it still existed.

graemep 24 days ago
Mein Kampf IS a rant.

I recommend people read it so you can understand how people like that think. This is also a valid reason for reading Lolita (although at least Lolita is well written).

01HNNWZ0MV43FF 24 days ago
Just skimming the Wikipedia article, it seems like conspiratorial thinking is a factor. That reminds me, I need to sit down and finish the new Contrapoints video on conspiracies
TimorousBestie 23 days ago
The Contrapoints video is a bit repetitive in places, but very good. She continues to impress.
cafard 24 days ago
It has been years since I read Lolita, but I don't think that one comes away from it with any insights into the mind of the pedophile. It was pretty clear in reading it that it was a grim story underneath, something intermittently mentioned by the narrator.