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atleast
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  • Rated 5 stars

I chose the audio book version of Lolita because I was not sure I could make it through the book on my own, anticipating disgust. While there is certainly reason to feel disgust over this novel, Nabokov's prose is the most poetic I have ever read. His expert use of assonance and alliteration kept the beauty of the language in constant juxtaposition with the sordidness of the story. This is a marvelous book.

atleast wrote this review Monday, September 17, 2007. ( reply | permalink )