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After finishing this book I was completely confused by the review the New York Times had so famously given it at it's beginning... "the most compelling love story of our time". This book, which is about the habitual rape and torture of a 12 year old girl is told from the point of view of her tormentor, Humbert Humbert. However, as it is told by him this book focuses on the responsibility the young girl carries of her own sexuality and his deviance. Lolita, the daughter of his landlady turned wif
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Lolita, Lolita...You are the first book in a long time to give me heartache and make me feel so immersed in your world that I never wanted to stop reading, but at the same time, I never wanted to look at you again. Nabokov is a master of prose. Each word he writes dwells in my mind the day after, making me wonder if I missed some subtlety or if it was all an illusion. I was reading another book at the same time as this. That was a dumb idea. After taking a few breaths of Lolita and turning to an
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