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A masterpiece in its own phenomenal way.
The start and a few reviews gave me an impression of this book being downright filthy and repulsive,but I am glad I didn't desist. Humbert may be atrocious, a scoundrel but it requires a madman's imagination and steady mind to understand him..Lolita may have been a manipulative little bitch or he might have broke her, who knows?
What I know for sure is that this classic is worth reading.
The poems, the constant Lo,Lola,Lolita!, the word play (and I could'v ...more
The start and a few reviews gave me an impression of this book being downright filthy and repulsive,but I am glad I didn't desist. Humbert may be atrocious, a scoundrel but it requires a madman's imagination and steady mind to understand him..Lolita may have been a manipulative little bitch or he might have broke her, who knows?
What I know for sure is that this classic is worth reading.
The poems, the constant Lo,Lola,Lolita!, the word play (and I could'v ...more
This book should be very hard to like. It should be a book which you really have to try to like because you know you should and everyone else seems to. But it isn't hard. It is terrifyingly easy to like. It's an unsettling story with a main character of whom it is possible to form many different opinions, although every moral you have says you should hate him. The fluidity and beauty of the narrative almost contrasts with the horror of the story and somehow makes it something you want to carry o
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