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Lolita
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December 1, 2012
Finish date
February 28, 2013

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Isabell
I had quite high expectations for this book because it is listed both on the 1001 books you need to read before you die list and on Bloom's Western Canon. Both usually include high-quality literature and so far I've at least liked or seen something good about every book I've read from the lists. Not so this time.

This was one of the few books I read in the last year (I actually read it this year, but the new year is still fresh enough that this statement has more meaning when I take my reading ex
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Chinook
Dec 08, 2010 rated it really liked it
Shelves: 1001, yale-291
I bought a copy of Lolita when I lived in Seoul. Four or five people borrowed it and no one finished it. They all disliked it.

I liked Lolita quite a lot but it's taken forever to read it. I've contemplated that it could be because I read it on my kindle and I sort of wonder if I read slower on it. I've thought it might just be the book because after the first section when the wife dies a lot of the tension leaves the narrative and I had a bit of a sense that I was just waiting for the relations
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Lyn LeJeune
Aug 09, 2011 rated it it was amazing
there's nothing like Loooooooooooooooooooolitaaaaa ...more
Alice
Jul 05, 2010 marked it as to-read
Shelves: owned
Miki
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Faith
Sep 16, 2010 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Forreste
Oct 13, 2010 rated it it was amazing
Emily
Nov 21, 2010 marked it as to-read
Kate S
Mar 11, 2011 rated it it was ok
Wanda
Jul 31, 2011 marked it as to-read
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Norma
Feb 18, 2012 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: summer-2012
Christin
Mar 07, 2012 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fiction, classics
Jacqueline
Mar 29, 2012 marked it as to-read
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Andrea
Jun 08, 2013 rated it really liked it
mr. x
Apr 05, 2013 marked it as to-read
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Jul 15, 2013 marked it as to-read
Percy
Apr 21, 2014 marked it as to-read
Safia Ghaneim
Apr 02, 2021 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Betsy
Jun 19, 2022 rated it did not like it
Shelves: future-round-1