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Stewart P
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  • Rated 2 stars

I can accept the excitement and critical curiosity surrounding this novel. For its time it was a ground-breaking story and walked the line of acceptable literature. In my personal opinion, however, I found simply a story about a pervert and his Lolita. I think the critical assumptions of metaphor are nothing more than grasps at defending a lewd piece of fiction. But hey, whatever floats your boat...

Stewart P wrote this review Saturday, August 23 2008. ( reply | view 1 replies | permalink )
  • Jack Tombs

    jack tombs said:

    But isn't that love, love not standing the way of any obstacle. The critics have hailed it as the truest love story in all of literature. Humbert Humbert disgusts me, he is vile and should be imprisoned and castrated for such a crime! However, his feelings are genuine, he has fallen in love with the nymphet that he can't have, remember the first passage, that love on the beach that was taken away, he is in search of that feeling, that sense of passion again, he doesn't let rules or limitations stand between him and his love, and that's the point. What will you do, to find love? I suggest to look at books objectively, not by the words of perversion--but in the deeper energies and meanings, the representations, the juxtapositions between one image to another, in this way we connect with books. Just my two cents.

    posted Wednesday, November 12 2008
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