it was great like all of his novels are

>>24728876
Man I love shaggy dog stories I might read this

How do you technically take the piss out of someone? Like, suck the bladder empty through penis? That doesn't sound riveting. Anglos are so damn weird

>>24728876
It's the anti-Lolita novel in the sense that Hermann's crime and subsequent writings fail to be art, While Humbert's crime and subsequent writing succeeds at being art. Despair and Lolitas are literary foils and should be read back to back.

>>24729847
>first and only guess is homosex
>"anglos are so damn weird"
it's supposed to be about pissing yourself from laughter. for fucks sake man.

>>24730148
But the phrase is to take the piss out of the person you're mocking, not yourself.