Book Review: Lolita

I just finished Lolita... by Vladimir Nabokov. Hehe when Seth and I used to read books aloud to each other, we would laughingly open each book by saying the title and author, as if we were on Reading Rainbow. "Drop City -- By T.C. Boyle."

Anyway, I didn't actually want to write a whole book review. Just a quick post to say that this book is great. Woooo! *devil horns*

No, let's see. The prose was indeed ecstatic, as John Updike says on the back cover. I despised the protagonist but also thought he was hilarious. It's definitely an erotic book, but in a sort of removed, thoughtful kind of way, which is interesting. Nabokov has an afterword in which he says that book publishers had a hard time understanding this book, because it didn't fit into the typical smut or romance novel stuff, in which erotic scenes start out tame and few/far-between, and then increase. So readers were apparently pissed off when the erotic scenes drop off halfway through the book. They didn't understand why the book wasn't fitting into their preconceived versions of what was supposed to happen.

Now that I have a lot of free time (ophthalmology makes me work about an hour a day), I get to start this book. Life is good.