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Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita is the story of a middle-aged man named Humbert Humbert who hopelessly fall in love with a 12 year old girl, Dolores Haze who reminds him of his long lost adolescent love. He is completely obsessed with this girl and he can go to any extent to get a hand on her. He would even die to have just a brief moment with her. This whole plot is totally insane and will make us uncomfortable in many places. Because I felt really uneasy in most of the lines but the craziest part is I totally loved the prose style of it. It feels strange that I could really empathize with a paedophile rapist murderer by the use of his deceiving word play. He is unreliable and you could see he is lying to our face but still you will allow yourself to deceive by his sugar coated words. What I am slightly disappointed is that I couldn't see from Lolita's point of view. But also that's what made him more monstrous than the usual. Before reading the book I thought he would be apologetic for being a paedophile but no, not at all, he accepts it completely. And that's what made it real even when he was unreliable. Also, you will learn how to not trust anyone by how they behave in front of us because inside they could be anything. Trust me this is such an awakening read. This book is totally for those who expect very good writing style with a message to take in the end. This is such a classic read man!