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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 18, 2006
Pros: 15 words aren't enough: this book is amazing.
Cons: You might find yourself sympathizing with a murderer.
Summary: Humbert Humbert got into my head. It wasn’t that I started obsessing about nymphets. It wasn’t a fundamental psychic shift. But Humbert started to inhabit my mind in a way no other narrator has been able to. It first happened as I rode on an ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 20, 2004
Pros: A once in a lifetime reading experience.
Cons: A once in a lifetime reading experience.
Summary: Even if you've never read Lolita there's a better than average chance you've heard of the book and have some sense of what it's about. Two movies have been made based on Vladimir Nabokov's novel, and its notoriety has assured it a place in the ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 7, 2002
Pros: Vladimer Nabakovs greatest work!
Cons: Some may be taken aback by the pedophilia writings.
Summary: "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins"
Lolita...a true look into the depth of a human heart has the pleasure of deeming itself the greatest work of author Vladimir Nabokov. Known to many to be a genius of ink and ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 12, 2001
Pros: lush, loopy prose
Cons: be warned--it's sympathetic to a pedophile
Summary: You've all heard about this one. You probably have an opinion of the book just from the subject matter, if you haven't read it. But get over your reluctance and give it a try: the book hardly encourages pedophilia.
Humbert Humbert (a ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 6, 2001
Pros: Each and every word is divine.
Cons: The French is confusing, but is effective.
Summary: I have titled this synesthesia, because Nabokov was "afflicted" by it and it shows in his work. For those not familiar with the term (and I wasn't until about a month ago), it is defined by Sir Webster as, "n. Physiol. sensation felt in one part of the ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 30, 2001
Pros: Stunning, superb prose. Unusual storyline, classic status.
Cons: Something of an anthem for perverts.
Summary: Lolita is one modern classic that impresses all around. Nabakov is shockingly candid in his portrayal of Humbert as a nymphette chasing man unable to bring his preferences in line with accepted norms. My absolute favorite aspect of this ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 28, 2001
Pros: Beautifully written, sometimes humourous
Cons: Verbose at times
Summary: I don't read a lot of fiction, but I decided to read LOLITA after several of my friends sang its praises. When a professional dominatrix friend of mine told me she had read this masterpiece four times, I immediately placed LOLITA at the top of my ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 10, 2001
Pros: The language! The comedy! The tragedy! That sad sap Humbert Humbert always gets to me.
Cons: The annotated version is a must-have for many.
Summary: Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.
So opens Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, a ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 14, 2000
Pros: A Classic!
Cons: At times, Humbert seems to ramble on a lot.
Summary: This book which was written half a century ago and it was a very taboo subject back then and even in today's standards. A forty-something year old man falls in love with, and sleeps with a twelve year old girl, it's a sick plot when you think about it. ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 1, 2000
Pros: A great, complex work
Cons: Read the book carefully...
Summary: Nabokov's greatest, best-known novel is great because it doesn't push any social or moral message on the reader - Nabokov just expects you to examine this particular creative construct of reality with the prejudices one may expect the book to instill. ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 20, 2000
Pros: Intelligent. Deeply moving. Classic Nabokov style.
Cons: Topic might turn off some uptight, close-minded people.
Summary: Quite frankly I don't see how this book can be considered as controversial. It's not even erotic, much less arousing unless you have a weird sexual fetish for Nabokov. The subject matter is ugly, that much is true, but it's as real as all the other ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 20, 2000
Pros: beautifully written, a great love story, good character development and very descriptive
Cons: too much French
Summary: I won't even begin to list the preconceived notions I had about this book before I so much as saw the front cover. Surely now everyone has heard of Nobokov's most infamous work, Lolita. This raised even more controversy when the movie based on the ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 28, 2000
Pros: An unequalled "love" story that deserves to be a classic.
Cons: Too much French dialogue.
Summary: I originally anticipated that I would be reading a book that was much more lewd and "smutty" than Lolita turned out to be. To my surprise, Nabokov's style is completely unoffensive even if his subject matter, a middle-aged man seducing and ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 17, 2000
Pros: excellent love story, not sappy
Cons: might be tough to understand at some points
Summary: A psycological romance from which I could not tear myself away. From the very first sentence, the writer and his style grab you and hold your attention. The passion, lust...love is decribed in such detail that you can feel your own loins start to ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 4, 2000
Pros: See the review.
Cons: There aren't any.
Summary: "Lolita", that precocious piece of fiction tearing at fundamentalist sides and tanatlizing adolescents searching for a crass Milleresque rip into Lo's nubile flesh. Well, you will be disappointed, lest you be searching for ecstatic prose, ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 25, 2000
Pros: engaging, complex, fascinating
Cons: pay attention or you'll miss the fun stuff!
Summary: "Lolita," by Vladimir Nabokov, wins over the reader virtually instantly. Despite the subject matter (an older man lusting after a teenage girl--a nymphet, as he thinks of her), the novel is not creepy. Rather, it's hilariously funny without ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 24, 2000
Pros: Makes you think a lot
Cons: None
Summary: Nabokov is brilliant. This is a very psychological novel, about a man who chases after young girls... and falls in love with one. Of course, this subject is for a mature audience, and should be read with an open mind.
We are introduced to ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 5, 2000
Pros: Everything - a literary masterpiece
Cons: A lot of French which can be confusing to some
Summary: Upon first reading of Lolita, I was swept away by the caricature of Humbert Humbert. His awkward bumblings, his twisted tormented desires and his hesitant actions brought forth my contempt, but his old world manner, his cool, self-justifying ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 19, 2000
Pros: One helluva book
Cons: None
Summary: Love and “Reality”
Vladimir Nabokov offers his readers one possible interpretation of the novel “Lolita” in Clare Quity’s play “The Enchanted Hunters,” in which, (Humber Humbert says) “reality and mirage merge in love.” Humbert rejects the ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 28, 2000
Pros: Well written, complex characters.
Cons: This book is practically flawless.
Summary: "Lolita" has been viewed with contempt and notorioty since it's publication. Nabokov was viewed as a sexual deviant about a subject as taboo as pedophilia. You don't have to advocate a subject to write about it. What may be disturbing to ... read more
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ISBN13: 9780679410430. ISBN10: 0679410430. by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov and Martin Amis. Published by Random House, Inc.. Edition: (REV)92
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ISBN13: 9780679723165. ISBN10: 0679723161. by Vladimir Nabokov. Published by Random House, Inc.. Edition: 55
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