Lolita

Read it at 13. I think that wasn't my best moment, but it was good. Humbert Humbert is a REALLY UNRELIABLE NARRATOR, and apart from all the gruesome themes and implications of Lo's mom's murder, the book I'd written very good. I literally do not condone anything, and I just KNOW Nabokov is rolling in his grave bc of the people thinking it's a romance.

Recommended to me by a pervert (as a child). Written by a pervert. Appreciated and much loved by perverts. This book is just a p3dos fantasy. That's it. You can say it's well written as much as you want but this is p3do erotica. That's it. Book should be burned and thrown into the trenches. The author too.

Although this novel is commonly portrayed as being about pedophilia, the book is not a morality tale nor is it even about sex or sensuality. It is about obsession. The narrator rather than being an average male, is a psychopath who has almost every identifiable psychiatric disability, described by the 'editor' as horrible, abject, a moral leper, supremely miserable, unattractive, ponderously capricious, ludicrous, desperate, diabolically cunnin...read more

The book has an entrancing aesthetic that really has nothing specifically to do with the content that many associate with it. I recommend reading Nabokov's afterward on this, for context. It's the kind of book I would pick up again.

Maybe it’s just because this book which was once ahead of it’s time is now overdone, but I just didn’t feel the need to read 400 pages from the perspective of a pedophile