pickWeeks later, I‘m still grappling with Lolita. And apparently most people are still grappling with it, months, years, decades later!
I‘m enthralled by this collection, not because every essay is great, but it‘s fascinating how one novel, one author, can provoke so much thought and discussion.
Naturally a book of essays about a book, runs the risk of repetition, oft-quoted lines, etc. but I appreciate that they‘re not all one-sided or laudatory.
pickThis ended up being a few true crimes stories in one book about how the author of "Lolita" never wanted or was willing to admit that he gleaned most of his novel from the true story of a little girl named Sally Horner. Imcludes some insight from people close to Sally that were still alive to meet with the author. Very interesting, if not a little dry.
pickEqual parts true crime and literary criticism of Lolita, and how the two intersect. Sally Horner, kidnapped at the age of 11 and taken across the country, is undoubtedly the inspiration behind Nabokov‘s Lolita, though he never public all admired as much. Weinman makes many compelling arguments for this truth, while also attempting to pay tribute to Sally. I‘m no diehard Lolita reader, I casually read it a decade ago, but found this fascinating.
pickTHAT WAS SO GOOD! I've never read Lolita but now I want to see the similarities between the novel and Sally Horner's tragic story for myself. #truecrime #lolita #kidnapping
Two pages in and I know I'm not doing anything else today! #truecrimes #lolita #kidnapping #currentlyreading
pickThe special class of satire to which “Lolita” belongs is small but select, and Mr. Nabokov has produced one of its finest examples. ♦(Donald Malcolm - The New Yorker)
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pickI CANNOT recommend this book for the same reason I didn‘t Lolita, I HATED the pretense. BUT I will say that not only was this book beautifully written, I enjoyed Vanessa‘s struggles with how to deal. She doesn‘t try to be a victim or a heroine, she acknowledges that‘s she‘s screwed up. She acts like a real person. This is an amazing story of Lolita all grown up. #lolita #litsy #goodread
This book is frackin with my head...it‘s backhandedly victim blaming but not at the same time? It‘s weird, like she believes there are no such things as victims just survivors. And she also brings up an odd point about SPECIFICALLY this type of affair; that the excitement of being “slowly lead to the fire” is all apart of it and “isn‘t that love?”...I need an Advil 😩😩😩 #unethical #love #lolita #whatisthis
