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Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

Start date: March 1, 2023

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Apr 28, 2012 Chrissie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: humor, relationships, usa, favorites, audible-us, classics

ETA: I read this book in 2012. I keep thinking about how much I enjoyed it. I have changed the rating to five stars because I feel it deserves the highest rating possible. I was too chicken to give it five before....

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I am going to tell you what I wish I had been told before reading this book. This is a memoir told from the first person point of view. I guess we all know that this book is about a pedophile, about incest. Yes it is, but it is extremely well written. A ...more

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Dec 24, 2012 Laura rated it really liked it

Shelves: 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, read-2014, russian-fiction, mtbr-challenge-2014, fiction-20th-century, america

This is quite unbelievable but this is my first book I've read by Vladimir Nabokov. But certainly I waited that long in order to read the English version due to some bad translations to Portuguese.

The plot is already very well known and described elsewhere.

According to Wiki, this book "was written in English and published in 1955 in Paris, in 1958 in New York, and in 1959 in London. It was later translated by its Russian-native author into Russian."

What I liked most is the author's style of writ ...more

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Jul 04, 2016 Kelly_Hunsaker_reads ... rated it it was amazing

Shelves: classics, 1001-books

I have read beautiful, comprehensive, enlightening reviews and will not try to reiterate what they have all said so perfectly. So, I have only three quick points to make.

1. Jeremy Irons' narration is exquisite. He gives voice and life to Humbert Humbert. He allows the character to be creepy and likable at the same time. Somehow he allows the listener to feel compassion for and empathy with this horrid man.

2. The story is disturbing, horrific and repulsive. It is a difficult book to read.

3. The w ...more

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