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samjunipero 's review for:
Probably more of a 3.5
I've tried a few time to read Lolita but could never really get into it. I wasn't familiar with what happened to Sally Horner and after reading Sarah Weinman's book, my heart breaks for her. It's a horrific story that has happened so many times to so many little girls. I'm not sure I'll ever attempt to read Lolita again. While I understand Nabakov doesn't blame the victim in his book, I can't help but still feel like it partially does, or at least most of society has. The term 'Lolita' now has come to mean a provocative seductive young girl, a underage temptress. It puts the blame on the young girl being sexualized and preyed upon, not the men who sexualize and abuse them. With the knowledge that Nabakov may used Sally Horner as inspiration, at least partially, for Lolita is upsetting.
This quote kinda sums my feelings: "Sally Horner is a triple victim: snatched from her ordinary life by Frank La Salle, only for her life to be cut short by car accident, and then strip-mined to produce the bones of 'Lolita' the only acknowledgment a parenthetical hidden in plain sight, hardly noticed by many millions of readers."
I've tried a few time to read Lolita but could never really get into it. I wasn't familiar with what happened to Sally Horner and after reading Sarah Weinman's book, my heart breaks for her. It's a horrific story that has happened so many times to so many little girls. I'm not sure I'll ever attempt to read Lolita again. While I understand Nabakov doesn't blame the victim in his book, I can't help but still feel like it partially does, or at least most of society has. The term 'Lolita' now has come to mean a provocative seductive young girl, a underage temptress. It puts the blame on the young girl being sexualized and preyed upon, not the men who sexualize and abuse them. With the knowledge that Nabakov may used Sally Horner as inspiration, at least partially, for Lolita is upsetting.
This quote kinda sums my feelings: "Sally Horner is a triple victim: snatched from her ordinary life by Frank La Salle, only for her life to be cut short by car accident, and then strip-mined to produce the bones of 'Lolita' the only acknowledgment a parenthetical hidden in plain sight, hardly noticed by many millions of readers."