So I finished Lolita.  I haven't been reading solidly all this time.  It's more along the lines of reading a few chapters, feeling icky, and putting it away for a week more.  I'm glad I read it, after all.  My reactions in no particular order:

The book tries to be funny constantly and succeeds with me about half the time.  Cutesy wordplay is fun in ( Read more... )

And enjoying it--much to my surprise.  I picked up a five-dollar copy at the used bookstore after a stressful interview the other day, as an impulse buy.  It would be a slog, I figured, due either to the impenetrable style I expected Nabokov to write, or to the subject matter.

It's actually being a quick read for me.  Turns out I like reading the ( Read more... )