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...
Jesus Christ. I've never had such a nauseous reading experience. This is a horror book, there's no other way I can think of it. I kinda wish I'd never read it, vivid and impressive as the writing can be. I'm not sure it was worth the discomfort. I know we're meant to be appalled. I'm not blaming Nab...
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...
"Lolita" is really a mindgame; a labyrinth of deception and manipulation, a constantly shifting playing field of symphathy and revulsion. With heartbreakingly poetic phrases and lyrical love declarations, Nabokov tries to trick his readers into siding with a pedophile. And, most scarily of all, some...
I have currently been tackling Proust's In Search of Lost Time and decided that if I really wanted to read about love's obsession I may as well go to the pinnacle of this type of literature and read Lolita . I started this with a few preconceived notions but tried to keep an open mind.How can one so...
No reason to give a specific review on this well written and famously reviewed piece of Russian Lit. I enjoyed it. YES! It is a dark story with dark subject matter AND Humbert Humbert is a monster but Nabokov managed to insert humor where one would never suspect. Humor, horror, mystery. What more c...
Lolita is one of my favorite books for its precision prose, famously unreliable narrator and multitude of allusions and wordplays. The annotated version is great because it explains all these allusions and word games and allows the reader to dig into the construction of the novel to a greater degree...
While this book provoked one of the most interesting nights my book club has ever had, there isn't much that I can say about 'Lolita', Humbert Humbert, or Nabokov, that hasn't already been said by someone before, and that more pithily. The squeamishness of what transpires, the rich prose in service ...
Humbert Humbert has a preoccupation with "nympets", pre-teenage girls. After marrying her mother and a lot of plotting, he abducts and abuses his step-daughter Lolita. All told from Humbert's perspective.Given the subject matter, this could easily have been a sleazy read, one to make you uncomfort...
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