Lolita
958 books to go!
Been awhile since I finished a book! Too long! I've been chewing through this beast of a novel by Stephen King, Under the dome, soon I'll blog about it, I still have 321 pages to go through at this point. I usually have a book at Shawn's, a book on my kindle and a book at work that I work through, I have books at my parent's too, but when I go home to them I really don't end up reading, I'm rarely around and have lots of random stuff to do when I'm there.
I like to pick up a classic on occasion, if you really pay attention to the writing and reading of it you can interpret and understand what's going on....a book summary of the classic also helps too. I've been interested in the possibility of reading Lolita for a very long time, so I finally read it.
As with most classics I was not disappointed at all. Nabokov's writing is incredibly creative and descriptive, he also writes a perverse story with quite the violent ending. He could have easily made this story pornographic smut too considering what it's about, but in the form of a good classic piece, despite the topic and storyline of this novel, it's extremely far from pornographic smut and leaves a lot up to the reader's imagination.
In case you don't know Lolita is about a professor who falls in love with his boarder's young daughter and is determined to win her affections and have her love, even though she's very young and could be his daughter.
I'm very pleased with this work, a good classic is very refreshing from a contemporary work, and to me great brain stimulation.
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