Mikey L answers “is this book disturbing in bits?”

A Goodreads user asked this question about Lolita:

is this book disturbing in bits?

Mikey L Disturbance comes from the ethnic moral. Wow, when it comes to ethics... Anyway, disturbing in an interesting way. You just can't deny this fiction's …moreDisturbance comes from the ethnic moral. Wow, when it comes to ethics... Anyway, disturbing in an interesting way. You just can't deny this fiction's importance.
If anybody notices, Nabokov is trying to show some abstract things, far beyond the taboos of sexual ethics. Otherwise, this master would not write a five hundred thousand word fiction for some pedophile and some cute little loli.(less)

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Citizen "cute little loli"

WOW ...more
Dec 07, 2019 09:53PM · flag

Kris Kringle Why do all men think this is such and "important" work of fiction? It is NOT. You really need to ponder why an author could devote this many pages to ...more
Sep 30, 2020 12:03PM · flag

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