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HiMyNames_Alyssa
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This 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.

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Katia Maria
Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov
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Un capolavoro è per sempre 💋
#lolita #nabokov #gliadelphi

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Chelsea.Poole
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Equal 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.

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la_rose_noire
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THAT 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

Riveted_Reader_Melissa I‘ve never been able to bring myself to read Lolita (the novel), but I‘m so glad to know that someone is looking at the other side of that story. 3y
EKonrad There‘s also a really good fictionalized version of this story called Rust and Stardust (which I loved!). 😊 3y
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la_rose_noire
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Two pages in and I know I'm not doing anything else today! #truecrimes #lolita #kidnapping #currentlyreading

EvieBee Love it when that happens! 3y
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Sha0102
Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov
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The 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)

#Lolita #VladimirNabokov #livro #book #bookaholic #booklovers #ler #leitura #leitora #reading #instabook #instaread #instabooks #bookstagram #litsy #booklover #readingabook #amreading #books #kindle #Sha2021

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jouleian
MY DARK VANESSA. | KATE ELIZABETH. RUSSELL
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I 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

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My Dark Vanessa | Kate Elizabeth Russell

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

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juliannebenford
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I enjoyed this but it was very much like the film adapation, which I saw first and I think I preferred. Momoko is devoted to all things Lolita fashion and rococo and has almost no interest in anything else. To get more money to buy clothes, she submits a newspaper ad for her gangster father's leftover counterfeits. Ichigo, a committed Yanki, a Lolita's polar opposite, responds, and despite Momoko's resistance they develop a friendship...