Furciferous Quaintrelle’s Reviews > Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century > Status Update

I need to go back to the beginning and start this one again. It's a book I meant to get finished by the end of 2024, but it's still hanging about, glaring at me any time I go read something else. Time to tie up another loose end methinks.

I'm so loving and enjoying 'The Journal Keeper' right now, but I don't want to rush through it. So I'm going to return to this essay collection, which at the top of the year I had anticipated being a 5 star read, only for all the intersectional wankery to put me off half-way through. Time to finish this one once and forever I guess. #Disappointed

This book is frustrating the feck out of me. Not because it's too academic (though the retard IS strong, in some of the contributing non-gender-specific-arseholes of letters.) There is so much desperate hand-wringing & absolute cockwomblery masquerading as apologia, which sets my reactionary teeth seriously on edge. I keep ending up wanting to throw this previously anticipated volume at the wall & just read Nabokov.

Lolita ranks as my all-time favourite novel & I've been anticipating the release of this essay collection for a 2.5 months now. I'm only a couple of essays in right now, but I'm already getting the feeling that some of the contributing essayists are going to be spewing out PC rhetoric in their own offerings. Can't help but think that the new church ladies & their dubious moral rectitude, will want to 'cancel' Lo.