Ville Kokko answers “is this book disturbing in bits?”

A Goodreads user asked this question about Lolita:

is this book disturbing in bits?

Ville Kokko To me, the disturbing thing was seeing the inside of a mind that sees other people only as objects to be used. Making an adolescent be his sex-servant…moreTo me, the disturbing thing was seeing the inside of a mind that sees other people only as objects to be used. Making an adolescent be his sex-servant was only a logical consequence of that. And yet, he sounded pathetic rather than stereotypically evil (because our stereotypes of evil are false), and he cared more about her than he did about anyone else.(less)

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