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sabrina_reis 's review for:
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
I was desperate for this book to finish when I was about 60% of the way through. Humbert Humbert is like that sad, delusional child who tells you constant fibs. Whilst he is the quintessential example of an unreliable narrator, I did not find myself swayed at any point by him, and was frustrated at his unnecessarily long and descriptive prose. Lolita was entirely irritating and barely a character, but that was probably a stylistic choice to reflect Humbert’s 2D fantasies of who she was. I really, desperately wanted to like this book because somehow disliking it makes me feel very plebeian and uneducated, but alas I could not. The 3 stars, instead of the 2 I would give it, is because I enjoyed the first half of the novel and the last 100 pages. All the stuff in the middle was so dry and useless. Also, Nabokov is a wonder; the fact that English is his 3rd language and he produced this piece of work is unbelievable.