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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: literary-fiction, stand-alone, 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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Erika
Jun 18, 2010 rated it really liked it
Shelves: favorites
Love his honest, vain, cautious writing. This was hilarious, unexpectedly moving and nearly made me cry.

Vladimir Nabokkov wrote: "...an American critic suggested that Lolita was the record of my love affair with the romantic novel. The substitution "English language" for "romantic novel" would make this elegant formula more correct."

He is a genius with language, and his word games make for a pleasing melodious irony throughout. ...more
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Peter
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Shelves: guardian-list
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Mar 06, 2010 rated it it was ok
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Mar 24, 2010 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Robert
May 24, 2011 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: classics, fiction
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