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Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

Start date: June 1, 2019

Finish date: June 30, 2019

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Jul 16, 2016 Michael Finocchiaro rated it it was amazing

Shelves: classics, american-20th-c, made-into-movie, fiction, favorites, novels

Astoundingly beautiful prose, a self-aware psychotic narrator who is both unapologetic and yet disgusted by his crime...so many themes in this book, so much symmetry (342).

Humbert Humbert knows he is both brilliant and insanely obsessed with pre-pubescent girls. He tortures his psychiatrists "cunningly leading them on; never letting them see [he] knew every trick of the trade" (P. 34). He becomes a lodger with Ms. Haze, a widow, and sees his nymphet in her yard, "a blue sea-wave swelled under [ ...more

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Jun 27, 2019 Scarlett Readz and Runz....Through Novel Time & Distance rated it liked it

Surely you have heard of Lolita before. I know I have, I just never have taken the time to read it nor watch the film. When the chance came up for a group read, I decided to go for it.

I have never studied this novel as required reading or such, so all of it was new to me. My thoughts on Lolita will be very brief here, although I could have much to say about it, but will refrain.

So, if you do not know, this is a controversial book, VERY, in fact, and I don't want to meddle in all the wrongs of ...more

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Jul 20, 2019 Tom rated it it was amazing

This site provides a guide to the French used in the novel, and any other material which might be helpful in better understanding this novel.

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Lolita ...more

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Apr 29, 2023 Summer rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: a-z-of-classics-readalong

L'autre soir un air froid d'opиra m'alita: [The other night a cold opera tune put me to bed:]
Son fиlи--bien fol est qui s'y fie! [Crackled sound - who goes by it is crazy!]
Il neige, le dиcor s'иcroule, Lolita! [It's snowing. The scenery is collapsing, Lolita!]
Lolita, qu'ai-je fait de ta vie? [Lolita, what did I do with your life?]

Dying, dying, Lolita Haze,
Of hate and remorse, I'm dying.
And again my hairy fist I raise,
And again I hear you crying.

There is so much more to this novel than ...more

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