Well, this was one of those "I need to finish it and be free of it" type of books.

If you're going to read it, I recommend the audiobook read by Jeremy Irons. What I did enjoy about the book was the prose style, which felt like a well tailored circus performance. This was my first Nabokov, and the man definitely likes experimenting with language. This also makes for an insufferable pretentious unreliable and horrible narrator, which is the /point/ of the book. He's very much not a sympathetic character (although I can see people reading this otherwise...).

I'd recommend this book only if you're interested in seeing how the language affects the way the story unfolds. This is especially true if you're interested in how the narrator uses linguistic tricks to better hide his horrific deeds (no word I reached for did his actions justice). I look forward to never reading the word "pubescent" so many times ever again.