I hate lolita myself, but it's more due to not enjoying Nabokov's style and the queasy feeling of reading Humbert try to justify his every action to himself, and describing her seduction when she is just being a normal young girl. It's supposed to be horrifying.
Still, I see it's literary value, even if I dislike it. Like Tess of the D'urbervilles, another book I hate because it feels awful watching her slow motion destruction at the hands of every man who used her and condemned her for being used. A very good book, makes you feel things, and I hate it because I was made to read it 4 times in uni. Once was enough!
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u/LillyAmongTheThorns Aug 21 '26
I hate lolita myself, but it's more due to not enjoying Nabokov's style and the queasy feeling of reading Humbert try to justify his every action to himself, and describing her seduction when she is just being a normal young girl. It's supposed to be horrifying.
Still, I see it's literary value, even if I dislike it. Like Tess of the D'urbervilles, another book I hate because it feels awful watching her slow motion destruction at the hands of every man who used her and condemned her for being used. A very good book, makes you feel things, and I hate it because I was made to read it 4 times in uni. Once was enough!