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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7604.Lolita?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics)" border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-scPXn2uL._SL160_.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7604.Lolita?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Lolita</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5152.Vladimir_Nabokov">Vladimir Nabokov</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24651184?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/>“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” <br/>- Humbert Humbert - <br/> <br/> <br/> Vladimir Nabokov’s book Lolita is a narration by its main character -a 40 something year old man named Humbert Humbert, who recounts his story from a prison cell. Humbert is a man that suffers from infatuations for nymphets, as he calls girls between the ages of 12-16. The novel begins with Humbert talking about his dear Annabel Leigh, who happened to be the young girl who was the love of his life. After almost having her completely, she is taken away and dies. Having just suffered this great tragedy, Humbert goes to live in Ramsdale, a town in New England where he is to stay in the house of Charlotte Haze. <br/>When he arrives and is being shown the house he is astounded by what he sees: the reincarnation of Annabel in 12 year old Dolores Haze. Lolita, as she is called, then becomes the object of his affection. He not only dreams of being with her but he does what he feels necessary to do so- without wrecking his reputation as a known scholar and gentleman, of course. Humbert gets to the point of marrying Charlotte to ensure that he will be able to care for Lolita, no questions asked. And while Lolita is away at camp, Humbert begins to devise a plan for how his wife will die, this plan however, becomes unnecessary when she discovers Humbert’s “black book” that contains not only his plans with/for Lolita including his obsession for her, but his ideas of getting rid of Charlotte as well. Having discovered this she runs off, only to be killed by a car as she runs out her driveway. The accident leaves Humbert-without actual legal paperwork figured out- as Lolita’s sole parent. <br/>There on they embark on a “road trip” where Humbert claims to the jury- his readers- that it was in deed Lolita who seduced him and who initiated the night they eventually spent together in a hotel called The Enchanted Hunter. They continue driving giving the appearance of a father-daughter travel, when in reality he uses violence and strategy to conceive his sexual desires from Lolita. This continues for years before Humbert realizes that he is being followed and that is when his suspicions arise that Lolita is being unfaithful with a man who he doesn’t know and she denies. <br/> This leads to a series of events that eventually becomes Humbert’s worst nightmare, for Lolita soon runs off. Years later he receives a letter from her, in which she lets him know that she is married and pregnant and that the reason she writes is because she and her husband need help financially. Within time, Humbert locates her and decides to kill her husband, being the man that took her away from him. Soon thereafter he visits her, only to find her not only married and pregnant like she said but, married to a man, Dick Schiller, who had nothing to do with her running away. He also finds out that the man who did was Clair Quilty, Lolita’s first and true love, only to have kicked her out after she denied participating in child pornography films that he produced. After learning this, Humbert asks Lolita if there are any possibilities of her ever wanting to be with him but to this she replies no. He then goes to do the act which actually imprisons him. For which to find out you should read the book. <br/>Lolita is a book worth reading because it is a morbid love-story about a man who is truly and completely in love and who does all in his might to get the person he loves. It is morbid in the sense that his love is a 12 year old girl, for he is “prying” on her childhood. In the beginning of the book, the reader believes that this man is culpable of the worst imaginable crime: raping a child, but once the book progresses it is shown how much Humbert loved Lolita, and how no matter the circumstances he really did want what was best for her, because of his infatuation for her; And how despite her age, Lolita was also forwarding and somewhat inviting on Humbert. Nabokov’s novel provides great examples of how the main character is hated for what he does, yet loved for why he does it, because it exemplifies how humans are usually easily fooled by an appearance; and that you never know how gruesome a person can truly ever be. Lolita is very effective in using figurative language because throughout the book, future events are shadowed. There are many similes and metaphors that Nabokov uses to provide the vivid details of his journey and relationship with Lolita. He also uses several allusions to other famous works both published and just commonly known. I would definitely recommend this book to my peers because it’s a really good book that is written with excellent vocabulary and that really gives a lesson on love, or the obsession with it. How just because a person doesn’t love you the way you want them to, doesn’t mean they don’t love you with everything they have. Lolita has become one of my favorite books and I know that others would perhaps find it controversial, but that is partly what makes it so great. <br/> <br/>“And I looked and looked at her, and knew as clearly as I know I am going to die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth, or hoped for anywhere else” <br/> - Humbert Humbert - <br/> <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1244179?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>