(Original Review, 1992-02-10)I can speak and write English pretty well, and I am completely lacking in Nabokov's talent for prose. I do, however, wonder whether the fact that English was his fourth or fifth language may have enabled him to approach writing in a different way. He seems to be very awa...
Lolita was... An experience. It was definitely too slow for my taste, though at the same time very well written and moving: I haven't been this angry at anything in a while, nor as disappointed in its ultimate end. After all Lolita's been through, she deserved a much better fate. It might not be t...
I loved it. I had always assumed that I would hate it, knowing that it was about an older man taking advantage of a very young girl. What I hadn't realized was that it is a book knowingly written from the villain's point of view. I had thought it would be all excuses and romanticism. That stuff is t...
Awaiting trial, Humbert Humbert is encouraged to write his memoirs. In his account we learn about how the defining moment of his adolesence would haunt him into adulthood. This youthful interaction created in him a hunger for prepubescent girls of a certain age. When he encounters the young Dolores ...
Final rating: 3.5 stars The subject of this book is quite awkward. Some characters are annoying at times, Humbert Humbert is obsessed with nymphets, and his affair to Lolita gave me mixed feelings. It's a tragic and an unfortunate story. I like the twist and so as Nabokov's beautiful writing style t...
Enfin fini, et quelle torture, quelle horreur que ce livre. Bien sûr c'est un classique avec tout ce que cela comporte de jugement biaisés mais mon dieu ... Même si le style est intéressant, le contenu est à mes yeux parfaitement repoussant. J'ai eu l'impression de lire les mémoires de Marc Dutroux,...
Short thoughts upon completion: I don't think I would have liked this as much if Jeremy Irons was not reading it to me. Progress Note: 6/21/2010 - 20% "Listening to Jeremy Irons read this book to me is like a dream come true. Except that his voice turns me on... then I listen to the content ...
I read most classics in audiobook format. Sometime this works wonders as with War and Peace or Don Quixote which need a lot of time and patience to plow through. On the other hand some books are hard to follow in audio format, I am not sure whether it is because of the book or the narrator. In the ...
This is not a review, some blabbering that I decided to jot down.Forget aesthetics. Enough of that has been written and discussed. Nabokov's word play, imagery, style all of them have been critically analyzed by a lot more competent persons than I am.What was concerning me when I started to read thi...
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