Reviews tagging 'Incest'

Лолита by Vladimir Nabokov

234 reviews

sooooleil's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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bon je voulais me faire mon propre avis. en effet c'est très bien écrit, par contre la deuxième moitié du livre y a bien quarante pages où je comprenais plus rien sincèrement, l'auteur m'a perdue.
sinon, c'est absolument immonde de se retrouver dans l'esprit d'un pédophile. ça dégoûte. ce livre est comme un film d'horreur raconté via la perspective du monstre. c'est hyper dommage qu'il n'y ait eu personne pour faire une adaptation en imaginant le point de vue de la pauvre Lolita. pourtant, l'auteur laisse plein de détails qui permettent parfois de trahir le récit biaisé et pervers du narrateur pour entrevoir la souffrance que vie la petite fille.
quel enfer vraiment ça fout trop la haine. toute personne qui voit ça comme une histoire d'amour est un putain de pédo.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence

notlucinda's review against another edition

3.75

dark reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content

Moderate: Incest, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Murder, Pregnancy

margaretryanhunter's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This is a five star book but not in the "glamorization of pedophilia" type of way that many people consider it to be. Although it's true that in popular culture it has taken on a sort of mystique as a romanticization of attraction to "nymphets", but Nabokov would be rolling in his grave if he knew that his work had been received this way. It's truly a fantastic example of the rapid degradation of our culture that has led to the misinterpretation of such base and key texts.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Trafficking, Stalking, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment

amillerbooks's review against another edition

5.0

dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder

jodiojolyne's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Stalking, Murder

leesoko's review against another edition

4.25

challenging tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Death of parent

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Violence, Car accident

maddieinthevines's review against another edition

2.5

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Incest, Death of parent

niles_reads's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The whole review

I’ve never been more disturbed by a piece of media in my life.

I’ve read “Dracula” by Bram Stoker, the book many view “the scariest book ever written”, I’ve read books heavy on body horror like “Bunny” by Mona Awad or “Boy Parts” by Eliza Clark and felt nothing while doing so.

My stomach flipped from page one. Genuinely the worst thing that was ever written.

The writing is hard to get into at first, but once you actually begin understanding the way the main character speaks, or well, writes, the text becomes easier to consume.

The main character is so self-centered, thinks so highly of himself and the way he justifies his horrendous actions to himself made me want to punch something so badly. And not in the Irina from “Boy parts” type a way where you’re kinda enjoying her selfishness. Maybe because his actions are WAY worse than hers.

You don’t quite realize it while reading it, but his every-now-and-then mentions of his “good-looks” is kinda a critique of how beauty and conventional attractiveness can come a long way, disguised as another way of him being full of himself. I remember scoffing and rolling my eyes every time he’d repeat himself, but after finishing it I could see what Nabokov was trying to do.

The truth about this novel is terrifying; that anyone can be a horrendous monster. 

From what I remember, he grew up in a normal environment and was a highly respected individual. He wasn’t some abused child or mistreated teenager. He was, what the people around him saw as, a normal person.

I’ve never really understood what “Seeing someone through the main character’s version of them” meant, until chapter 32 where we finally get a glimpse of her humanity; of her wanting a normal life, of being a child wanting someone to call “family”. Or how even when she was living in poverty and while having a child on the way at 17, she refused to live back with a man who took away her childhood and both physically and mentally broke her.

I’m really debating on what to give it. While being a book about such a disturbing topic, it is extremely well written and it clearly shows a message.

I can’t force myself to give it anything but a 4.75.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

awest_04's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The romanticizing of the pedophilic, incestual relations between a stepfather and his “love” for his daughter, written as a recount of his memories with her. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Murder

helenamkln's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Difficile de lire se livre sans se faire "piéger" par le narrateur, qui essaie de se déresponsabiliser sous une écriture entraînante et déstabilisante, mais non, ce n'est pas, jamais, une histoire d'amour. L'impression de devoir relire et relire ce livre pour bien le comprendre et réussir à se défendre.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Pedophilia