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Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

Start date: September 1, 2014

Finish date: September 30, 2014

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Aug 06, 2018 Kira rated it liked it · review of another edition

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3.5***

After years, I've finally come across a book again that's given me the urge to pick up a highlighter. I never usually highlight my books but damn.. Nabokov's sentences are pure beauty. His characters and pacing let this novel down a bit, but I'd still highly recommend Lolita based on the writing and themes alone. ...more

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Aug 03, 2011 Michael Keag rated it it was amazing

A mildly uncomfortable ride throughout; having said that, it contains some of the most wonderful prose I have ever read. Nabokov had his work cut out to make the sordid life a sociopathic pedophile worthy of reading, but with his explosive prose his does so in this, lamentable tale of unreciprocated love. At times one feel mildly dirty; at times one feels discusted; at times one feels like pouring lighter fluid everywhere and setting the world on fire, and ridding us all of evil; but, at all tim ...more

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