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,...
As a holder of a degree in English, I am constantly asked something along the lines of “you read this, right?” Usually the "this" in the question is either some really obscure porn book or Russian literature. Then I have to explain that English literature and Russian literature are two different gro...
I love this book. I don't know what that says about me. I mean, I know the subject matter is atrocious, but I was super amazed by how much I got into the story. The writing style is the absolute most interesting I've known. Especially for something written so very long ago, the words were super ...
The best novel I've read in the past year. The wittiest and perhaps the saddest. I would be terribly jealous that anyone born in Russia could master the English language to this extent, but it is said English was spoken freely in his childhood household. A work of staggering genius.
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 ...
There’s really no getting around it, this book handles a subject that pushes a lot of peoples’ buttons: pedophalia. What amazes me, however, is the vast array of reactions towards the book. It’s not just “ew no” or “you just don’t understand it”. I’ve seen the relationship between Humbert Humbert, a...
I've always wanted to read Lolita. Don't know why it took me so long. I actually bought the audiobook which is narrated by the one and only Jeremy Irons. And man... what a story. It is by no means an easy read or story to take. The narrator of this tragic and doomed tale is indeed sick and perverse,...
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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