Lolita

October is banned books month so we each chose a banned book and read it then gave a report to the group.

There is no reason why this time would need another review, its beautiful, flawless and daring. There seldom are authors who write in the point of view of the antagonist and Vladimir Nabakov might most arguably be the best of them. Its only a pity that he was denied the Nobel he so vehemently denied. Such elegantly crafted is the novel that you ride with story. You see with your mind the rise of desire, the agony, the road to redemption, the salvation, the fall, the rise and the final conviction. There seldom comes a story half so visual as this, hardly so perfect as this. Just beautiful is what I feel the story is.

A really interesting book and I can see why it has become a classic. I am baffled by the way people have come to misunderstand this book, tbh.

This is an astoundingly well written story from a man who was not a native English speaker! ... which should not be my take away considering its topic. But it is.

This was somehow one of the most uncomfortable, upsetting books I’ve ever read while also containing some of the most interesting, beautiful, fantastic prose I think I’ve ever seen; as a result, I’m left wanting to remember quotes from it as much as I am trying to push the novel’s content from my head.