Awe and exhiliration–along with heartbreak and mordant wit–abound in Lolita, Nabokov’s most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on … love–love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.
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As timeless as it is disturbing.
A classic but you’ll need a dictionary.
Nabokov’s genius with words shines through. An extremely delicate subject is well handled. An important novel.
A story of true love that is completely wrong and meant not to be and luckily fails to the betterment of all concerned.
Disturbing
Brilliantly written
Very disturbing subject matter by insightful
Hard to read, but worth it
I think it is amazing because the narrator is so untrustworthy and you have to figure out the real world reality through a pedophelias eyes like for example; is the mother really as bad as he describes her? Is he really a tall handsome man? Its hard and easy to fall into his logic when you remember that this is a man who has a mental disorder and …
This book is causes so much emotional conflict because the subject matter is detestable, but the writing is some of the most beautiful I have ever read.
This book made me fall in love with the writing of Vladimir Nobokov. While writing something terrible, no, horrible, horrific, disgusting, creepy, and ludicrous, he uses the most stunningly beautiful language. It takes a little time to get into the rhythm of his writing but worth the effort.
This book is too disgusting for me to even get 1/4 through it. I tried to read it with an open mind but the perspective of a pedophile isn’t something that I can force myself to care about.