Title: Lolita
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Genre: Fiction - Classic
Finished: October 10, 2013
When reading Lolita, people get bogged down looking for morals or answering the general celestial question of how wrong will be balanced by punishment either karmic or religious. Lolita isn't a love story and it isn't a moral story. But it is a work of marvelous fiction that we can romanticize because of it's use of language, florid and grandiose. Humbert is, in his own way, a sympathetic protagonist and even grows on you as a character driven by human desires and needs, not necessarily base or lewd, and so readers are charmed by him, as well. This book deserves to be one of the best of all times.
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