I'm the kind of person who believes that there are certain books everyone should read due to their popularity in modern culture and because I consider them to be classics. I'm also the type of person who doesn't desist reading a book easily and if I do, it's only until I have the time and motivation...
The state of my "to-review" list is just frightening right now. I don't even like looking at it because it's like, 10+ books and a lot of them are ones I finished months ago. So ... GAHHH! Anyway, it's been about two months since I read this book. And I admit, part of the reason why I've put off thi...
"Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms sh...
Having seen the movie long before I read the book, I thought I knew what I was getting myself into reading it. Boy, was I ever wrong about that. Nabokov was able to put me through so many emotions with this book that my brain hurt when it was over. Humbert is creepy. He's a child molester. But ...
The thing is this... I'm not going to write a big review on this book for the simple fact that people who don't LOVE this book get bashed silly. I admire the written prose but the density of the book was terribly annoying to me, enough for me to only have LIKED it. However, I didn't read this, I lis...
After finishing the book, I utterly hate Humbert. I found this to be a very challenging book in that I utterly hated the subject matter for the most part of the book. I hated Humbert and hated what he was doing. I didn’t like Delores much either. Actually, in thinking back over the book, I don’t thi...
4 stars for the writing style. It was as so many others have said, completely beautiful, especially given that this was not the author's first language. 3 stars for the story itself (I found myself skimming a lot of the scenes without Lo which didn't interest me. Lo was the magic of the story after ...
With Lolita, Nabokov manages to take something good, corrupt it and yet make it look almost palatable, and he does this without overt Clockwork Orange-style emotional manipulation. In that work, it's almost impossible to miss themes like Government, free will and choice. Lolita offers a much more ho...
I think the best way to honor a satire is with a satire, don't you?To honor Lolita, here is my satire of a successful Goodreads review (i.e. a review that gets listed first):The Picture SectionBottom line:pictures. My friend thinks that animated gifs are the quickest way to get Likes. Here they are....
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