Author: Vladimir Nabokov
# of Pages: 211 (ebook)
Genre: Fiction, Classics
Rating: ★★★☆☆
Synopsis: Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, whom he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? ...Or is he all of these?
Review: I had to read this book as an ebook because I was traveling and didn't have a physical copy I could bring with me. If a book is already difficult to get through (i.e. is a classic), it becomes 10x harder for me to read it as an ebook.
It goes without saying that Humbert is one weird dude. His not-so-romantic relations with Lolita (Dolly) are told from his first person perspective, so we hear this story through an unreliable narrator. While it was interesting to ponder whether the series of events he describes actually happened as they said they did, Humbert definitely has some mental issues (pedophilia aside, sometimes he sounds straight up insane). Be prepared to read more attentively than you would for other books.
Overall an okay read; I wouldn't recommend it unless you are already interested and are ready to buckle down to read a classic.
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