Lolita (it's a classic; don't judge)

[Gin-Uhhh 8D]

So.
People probably won't like this but, y'know.
I do.

Lo. Lee. Ta.

I read it on the twelveth summer I've ever lived through (hm, last summer. Who'dda funk it.) and i'd be lying through my teeth if i didn't say it chilled me to the bone.
But it also remixed my thoughts on the real world.

So, you know what it's about, yeah?

It's about fucking obsession.
I can't call it love- I can't.
It's obsession.

The whole thing is a box of cyanide candy hearts.


Humbert Humbert is going to jail.
He's going to die and, y'know what?
He deserves to.

But, that doesn't change the fact that he has a great voice in the story and (as he often mentions) is obnoxiously handsome.

Humby, our hero, has felt the tug of love and he's felt the release of her death (these aren't spoilers, it's on the first page... a spoiler would be for me to tell you the thing about Char-).

He first fell in love as a child (a flauntet, if memory serves right.)

A wopping thirty years later, he's in love again.
Too bad they aren't aging.

It's witty and it's pieced together wonderfully.
Some parts you'll laugh, some you'll be a tad sick, but through the whole thing- it's taboo.

Nabokov writes probably the most controversial story of histime and ours (a good fifty years apart).

Props to dead Russians.

[Snoogans4Jay]

I have always wanted to read that book..... ....Lolita has become just a part of our language because of it

[M!$H]

I really love the book Lolita and I actually don't find it disturbing at all. Vladimir Nabokov is probably one of the greatest writers in history, simply because he can write about something like pedophilia and make it beautiful.

My whole thing about Lolita is that people read the book and then either 1.) act like it's something completely shocking and let's face it, in most of Western society, models, actresses, etc. are made to look younger (stick thin, no boobs, young faces? Looks like 12 year olds to me...) or 2.) think Vladimir is a sick fuck and this was a biographical account. It wasn't.

To me, Lolita wasn't that shocking, nor was it that perverse. It was a story. Maybe my perception is viewed, being a writer and living in a writer's world where really "shocking" things seem pretty mundane to me, but I did not find it shocking, perverse, etc. I found it a beautifully written story.

I'm also part Russian, so I feel a tug to always read and support Russian literature.

(PS I thought it was fawnlet, not flauntlet. Because he was making the reference between a fawn, baby deer, and a young child.)

[sistermidnite]

Apr 7, 2008 17:50:02 GMT -5 M!$H said:

I really love the book Lolita and I actually don't find it disturbing at all. Vladimir Nabokov is probably one of the greatest writers in history, simply because he can write about something like pedophilia and make it beautiful.

My whole thing about Lolita is that people read the book and then either 1.) act like it's something completely shocking and let's face it, in most of Western society, models, actresses, etc. are made to look younger (stick thin, no boobs, young faces? Looks like 12 year olds to me...) or 2.) think Vladimir is a sick fuck and this was a biographical account. It wasn't.

To me, Lolita wasn't that shocking, nor was it that perverse. It was a story. Maybe my perception is viewed, being a writer and living in a writer's world where really "shocking" things seem pretty mundane to me, but I did not find it shocking, perverse, etc. I found it a beautifully written story.

I'm also part Russian, so I feel a tug to always read and support Russian literature.

(PS I thought it was fawnlet, not flauntlet. Because he was making the reference between a fawn, baby deer, and a young child.)

I agree. especially when you consider the recent furore surrounding miley cyrus and 'that' photo. it is an excellent, sensitively and compellingly written classic that EVERYONE should read. uncomfortable at times yes, but great works of art often shake you up a bit and challenge your perception of things.