[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...
'It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.'Lolita is likely one of the most controversial stories in 20th century literature to date. Lolita has been coined as a 'love story' and even 'erotic'. In all honesty, this was simply Humbert attempting to convince himself (and other...
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...
This book knocked my socks off, but I have to give some thought as to why. The story is tragic from beginning to end. And the ending is too ironic for...well...words. It's about a subject that makes one queasy. Yet, this book is such a celebration of language...languages...that I'm not sure how anyo...
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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