Lolita
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Exhilarating, appallingly funny, and hauntingly sad, Lolita is Vladimir Nabokov's most famous and controverscial novel, a twentieth century classic whose character's names have become synonymous with the outrages and degradations of obsessive passion. For when the aging emigre Humbert Humbert falls in love with the precocious nymphet Dolores Haze, all the ruls - of dsire, decency, and literature - are broken. Lolita has the power to shock, challenge, and enrapture anyone who listens to this masterful performance by Academy Award-winning actor Jeremy Irons.
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Nope. I have actually never read something so stomach-churning until now. At least I can read Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi with a little more context. DNF.
I would like to agree with ‘The Independent', whose favorable review is written on the cover - ‘A masterpiece. One of the greatest works of our age.'
No review can do this book justice, as I am beginning to see. The ruminations of ‘Humbert Humbert', becoming more and more deranged as the pages fly by, is a chilling echo to the spiralling madness of the main character.
I couldn't put this book down, and it is shameful to realize how most people would not touch this book with a ten foot pole, due to them getting the wrong notion of this book encouraging paedophilia. Read and make up your own minds.
TL;DR - read it, if you haven't already. If you have, then you already know how haunting it is.
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