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I think, for those of us that read the novel we each individually carry our own judgement on what we gain and retain in ourselves; and on what is reviewed for others to consider: there are many texts out there due to its Classic status but only a few are worth reading. I think most could read Craig Raine's 1994 afterword and still dive right in having done so.
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well, like many boys and girls of my generation, this was the first or one of the first books we had read (in secret) it was and continues to be that burning flame, exciting, wrong, taboo, forbidden.
Definitely a "cult" book ...more
Definitely a "cult" book ...more
On the one hand, I can see why this book is a classic. The unreliable narrator Humbert Humbert is wholly pitiful and terrifying and the story has genuinely haunting moments other novels only dream at achieving. On the other hand, it uses the wandering, purple-prosed style of the early 20th century, and, despite the narrator apologizing openly for the style, I still left wishing the novel had been half as long.
