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This is quite unbelievable but this is my first book I've read by Vladimir Nabokov. But certainly I waited that long in order to read the English version due to some bad translations to Portuguese.
The plot is already very well known and described elsewhere.
According to Wiki, this book "was written in English and published in 1955 in Paris, in 1958 in New York, and in 1959 in London. It was later translated by its Russian-native author into Russian."
What I liked most is the author's style of writ ...more
The plot is already very well known and described elsewhere.
According to Wiki, this book "was written in English and published in 1955 in Paris, in 1958 in New York, and in 1959 in London. It was later translated by its Russian-native author into Russian."
What I liked most is the author's style of writ ...more
The intelligentsia mafia will call you a prude if you dare speak heresy about Lolita not being a great book. But there are other reasons to not like this book. Maybe it's just me but when I read fiction I need to have at least one character I can identify with or pull for, and I hate everybody in this book, Lolita, her mom, the pervert with the same first and last name. And if I'm going to spend time with people I hate I might as well go to work.
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Finally finished! A little slow and plodding at times, but worth reading in the end and not quite what I expected. I'm still not quite sure what to make of it.
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I don't remember being particularly impressed with this book. Of course, I read it over ten years ago.
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