The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World in Around the Year in 52 Books

Feb 07, 2019 Jen Ifer's Inklings rated it it was amazing

Shelves: audio-books, library, memoir-autobiography-biography, non-fiction, read-in-2019

This was a fascinating account of the girl behind the infamous book Lolita. I enjoyed how the real life story and the background of the writing of the book were intertwined.

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Aug 30, 2019 Ruthi rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audible-books-that-i-own, warning-tears-ahead, read-more-nonfiction-2019, diversifying-the-genres-i-read-2019, pain-flare-readathon-aug-19

The book is well worth reading except Lolita fashion in Japan has nothing to do w sexualized Lolita as a quick Google would’ve told this author. It was based off a misheard, Portuguese I believe, word that sounded “kawaii” to the ear & the fashion itself is simply based off of Victorian fashion & tbh this assumption being spouted as fact has caused those in that subculture to be harassed by disgusting men. That needed to be said considering this book is about a few victims of CSA.

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Oct 16, 2018 Viktoriya rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: non-fiction, library, 2018

To be honest, I am disappointed. The premise sounded like this will be the story of Sally Horner, the little girl long-believed to be the inspiration behind Nabokov's Lolita. Weinman starts by saying that Sally's story deserved to be heard, that she's been pushed out of the history for way too long (and Nabokov always denied that she was the inspiration for his Lolita).
Unfortunately, this book quickly became yet another book about Lolita and about how it was written, and what might have inspire ...more

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Jul 19, 2019 Maudaevee rated it it was ok

This book had some good information and probably would of been interesting had it not skipped around in a way that was hard to follow. I was listening to the audio and I had to check that it downloaded correctly because it seemed to be so choppy .

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