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Lolita
Lolita
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May 1, 2012
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May 31, 2012
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Cee
Nov 10, 2010 rated it really liked it
Shelves: stand-alone, literary-fiction, classics
From the first sentence, I loved the writing of Nabokov. His prose meanders and substitutes, deceives and describes, tempts and rejects. Purely on the word-level, I think this might be one of the best books I have ever read. Rarely am I this impressed by writing itself.

The story of Humbert Humbert the paedophile falling in love with Lolita is cloaked in this prose. If the reader isn't instantly repelled by the theme itself, the reader will get swept up in the strange and demented world of H.H. H ...more
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Writing--yes. Subject--NO!
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