A couple of months ago, I ventured for the first time into the territory of literary pedophilia with Alyssa Nutting’s controversial novel Tampa. It did not go so well. As much as I understood the point of that exercise, I couldn’t appreciate it, drowning as I was in a sea of utter disgust. I was rep...
LOLITAThis review contains SPOILERS, but if you've been living on this planet, you probably knew about them already...Daddy, are we there yet? Are we there YET? Daddy, how much longer still? I want to go home!Hush little one, now Say your prayers Don't forget my little nymph To include everyone I tu...
[b:Lolita|7604|Lolita|Vladimir Nabokov|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327871906s/7604.jpg|1268631] is a book of mixed feelings. Sympathy for the devil to the nth degree. Going into it, I obviously knew that it was about a pedophile, yet I endeavoured to read it since it is still appreciated as a clas...
I had seen the Kubrick film a few times, and tried to read this in high school but put it down. Many years later, I'm reading this for my Modern Library TBR challenge. Overall, I found the book compelling but tough to read at times. Humbert waxes eloquent throughout the book, and it's a challenge to...
A shocking account of a young black widow who seduces and destroys a kindly elderly gentleman, this book offended me because having sex with old dudes is gross. Ask my wife! Ba doom crash. Wait, you say it's about what now? Oh. Well, whatever.Anyway: show up for the icky sex, stick around for the...
One of the more frequently "banned" books in modern times; 'Lolita' is written from the perspective of Humbert, a man who is fixated on... let's be charitable and leave it at "young" girls.The book is in kind of a diary/confession format, and goes through how he came to be with a girl named Dolores ...
One of the best novels ever written. It inhabits the mind of its protagonist so effectively that sometimes it is mistaken as an apologia for pedophilia. The language of the book is brilliant, and it shows what it is like to be a completely evil person. Humbert Humbert's ability to lie to himself ...
I thought I was going to be sick a time or two while reading this...so, well done to you Nabokov, well done indeed!When the reader gets so wrapped up in the story and believes so strongly in the characters and their actions that it moves the reader to illness, that is good writing. Almost too good. ...
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