" Don't be one of those writers who sentence themselves to a lifetime of sucking up to Nabokov."
I couldn't have said it any better. "Lolita" creeped me out before I finished the first page. I only finished the book because it was assigned during grad school. One kid in class--a really big guy who looked like he could snap you in half with his little finger--broke down during one passage: we discovered quite by accident that he was a victim of sexual abuse as a child. Class was dismissed that night. After that, I went back to my original assessment: "Lolita?" An ode to pedophilia, disguised as literature.
Great stuff, Christine and thanks for the shout out.
" Don't be one of those writers who sentence themselves to a lifetime of sucking up to Nabokov."
I couldn't have said it any better. "Lolita" creeped me out before I finished the first page. I only finished the book because it was assigned during grad school. One kid in class--a really big guy who looked like he could snap you in half with his little finger--broke down during one passage: we discovered quite by accident that he was a victim of sexual abuse as a child. Class was dismissed that night. After that, I went back to my original assessment: "Lolita?" An ode to pedophilia, disguised as literature.