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... href=http://www.paulbatchelor.co.uk/snowmelt.html> Snow Melt . I will be buying his book pdq. Hope to finish Lolita today and add something about that soon - then I can finish martin Amis's article on Nabokov in yesterdays guardian without the possibility of a spoiler.

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Lolita The Bartimaeus Trilogy Wuthering Heights Check out this site for more: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UnreliableNarrator

This is going to be from my own personal opinion, but having read Pale Fire and Bend Sinister if Lolita, which I haven't read, uses games, tricks, wordplay and other literary masturbation techniques, I expect it will survive as a curiosity, but won't have long term staying power. It may be ...

... to be forgotten. And you might want to explain why he would be, since it seems so unlikely... Similarly Nabakov's Lolita, while not necessarily 'great' is certainly a good novel, and inspired a great movie by Stanley Kubrick. Perhaps you think Kubrik will also be forgotten, in which ...

... to be forgotten. And you might want to explain why he would be, since it seems so unlikely... Similarly Nabakov's Lolita, while not necessarily 'great' is certainly a good novel, and inspired a great movie by Stanley Kubrik. Perhaps you think Kubrik will also be forgotten, in which ...

... boring, Melville is great because he has simply always been bigger than life and has always been said to be great, Lolita ---ptui!~! and Salinger----same as Melville although not in the same category----------just always been there.

... Old man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway The Ambassadors by Henry James Moby Dick by Herman Melville Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Extraordinary tales by Allan Poe The Catcher in the rye by Salinger The adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain S ...

... than half of that list. I am even willing to submit myself to the stoning which will result in my suggestion that Lolita will not endure. Who will throw the first stone?

... larger on the cover. But yes, i agree that an exception. Exceptions to the reverse situation might include books like Lolita, War and Peace, and Moby Dick, where the book title has (nominally, generally) more impact than the author's name.

"Dick Sugar" * *The title characterʻs husband, in Nabokovʻs Lolita

... Verghese ****1/2 40. The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon ****1/2 41. Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov **** 42. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov ****1/2 43. The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan ****1/2 44. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers ***** That brings me just about up to date ...

... Verghese ****1/2 40. The Yiddish Policeman's Union by michael Chabon ****1/2 41. Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov **** 42. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov ****1/2 43. The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan ****1/2 44. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers ***** That brings me just about up to date ...

Lolita by Valdimar Nabokov

If you find of Vladimir Nabokov's book (minus Lolita, which is the only one I own), I would love if you could nab them for me! Robin Hobb is another author I'm looking for and I don't own any of her books so if find any, I'd love it if you could grab them as well. Thanks for doing ...

... pages to go! I'm only a couple hundred pages in (but my copy is 1400 pages long...). I'm also working my way through Lolita, which is amazing if fairly disturbing at times, and Neuromancer because it's required for a class (albeit a pretty awesome class!).

... Robot Dreams < A short story, but still one of my favorites Guy de Maupassant's short stories Huckleberry Finn Lolita These are just the first ten that came to mind. The time it took me to come up with some really amazing books reminds me that I need to read more really amazing ...

... Márquez 391. The Third Policeman Flann O’Brien 398. The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon 493. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 520. Casino Royale Ian Fleming (actually I might even have finished this, not completely sure) 605. At Swim-Two-Birds Flann O’Brien 657. ...

... Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhals * The Women's War by Alexandre Dumas * Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot * Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov * Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

I bought Lolita at a garage sale last month and now I can't wait to read it. Thanks for the excellent review!

Trudge. Trudge, and trudge some more. I guess I may as well go ahead and read Lolita. I bring it home and it languishes on the floor by my side of the bed for three to six weeks, then to be returned reluctantly to the Main library. Bonnie, how do you get so much reading completed with a ...

Bonnie- Excellent review on Lolita! I read it about 10 years ago and like you, was blown away by the beautiful prose!

... For me, that makes the narrative so much more interesting if they are well done, and Chabon was very good at this. On to Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. From my review: When I first decided I wanted to read Lolita it was because I wanted to broaden my appreciation of the classics that I ...

... choice. "Hey, Obama likes Hemingway, must be a solid guy." Better for swaying voters than picking, say Twilight, or Lolita, or Oryx and Crake. BTW, you would probably get more responses about FWtBT if the book was mentioned in the thread title. People might assume this is a ...

... read it forever. I just received books 9 and 10 of the Aubrey series by O'Brian to fill up my time. My TBR pile contains Lolita, The Savage Detectives and Le Desert. Sigh....

I've read Doctor Zhivago, Advise and Consent and Lolita. I own Only in America but haven't read it yet.

... pard 470 A Town Like Alice 487 The Wonderful “O” 494 The Lord of the Rings 495 The Talented Mr. Ripley 496 Lolita 499 The Quiet American

... Galaxy Snow Cat's Cradle The Handmaid's Tale The Big Sleep Rabbit, Run The Maltese Falcon Ulysses Lolita Crime and Punishment The Master and Margarita The Secret History Beloved Song of Solomon A couple weeks ago, I started reading Mrs. Dalloway and ...

... honestly remember, but probably illustrated. 10 -- Choose Your Own Adventure 15 -- Fountainhead, Naked Lunch, Lolita, Paradise Lost -- and didn't understand the lot of them. MAD Magazine 20 -- my Hermann Hesse period, the Beats, more WSB, William Gibson, Sade 25 -- ...

... or focused on women's issues (whatever that means): Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Lolita... what do you know, all written by men.

... Agatha Christie's The murder of Roger Ackroyd. I suppose the most famous version of this sort of narrative would be Lolita, though (which is not British, of course).

Try The End of Alice, A.M. Homes. Lolita was a good suggestion, too.

... but have not read) 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (did not finish) 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (own but have not read) 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack ...

... Glad you're back, even briefly. Assigned reading is always a dratted chore, I'd even whine if I was assigned to read Lolita which creepfest I adore. Go breathe in some snow-smell for me. It's gonna be 75 on Long Island tomorrow, boo hiss.

... I will also throw out there for consideration two Important Pieces of Literature that I've not read: Madame Bovary and Lolita.

... don't know of any more, although I did a tag search for 'unreliable narrator' on LT and got some results - Pale Fire and Lolita being the most popular. The Remains of the Day was definitely there too.

... I'd have an excuse not to read it. Now I may just have to take it on, whenever. Nabokov: Novels 1955-1962 (comprising Lolita, Pnin, Pale Fire, and Lolita: A Screenplay by Vladimir Nabokov. My duty among novels, as I have set it for myself, is to read substantially in Henry Jame ...

Have you seen the 1997 film of Lolita directed by Adrian Lyne? I think Kubrick did a version as well during the 1960s maybe?

Lolita is one of several books that are high on my TBR list, but haven't been read as other books replace them. Your comments also make me want to read it ASAP, probably sometime in the fall. Thanks!

... intelligent women. I think Tsutsui may have issues... Nabobov... you can never go wrong. I think you might like it. Lolita I fear may have been pushed back a bit... I just came back from a bookstore :D

... into these last two even though the "reader meter" tells me I will "strongly dislike" them both. ha So you are off to Lolita? She should put your knickers in a whirl for a while. Hope you enjoy. belva

I've not finished anything yet, but am working my way through Lolita which I love! What a great book (what an awful book, terrible in some ways but excellent). But I wanted to write about it already, whilst I still have about 100 pages to go as I have a thought about it, or some thoughts which ...

I am baffled by the idea that anyone would find Lolita titillating. It's been a few years since I've read it, but I remember nothing explicit or pornographic except for the situation. This maybe down to the inherent cleanliness of my mind, but I cannot imagine anyone successfully masturbating ...

Is it possible to be titillated by Lolita?

... to it than that. Another test of literature: Can it stand beyond the initial titillation? I found that there was more to Lolita than its scintillating notoriety.

I would like to throw my votes for Watership Down, Black Beauty, The Princess Bride, Lolita, The Handmaiden's Tale, and The Last Unicorn.

... couple of days. But today, I need to start Snow Falling on Cedars for book club and either The Assassin's Gate or Lolita.

Yes, I'm surprised to learn that the FS has never published an edition of Lolita. What god would let that happen...?

... forgive any redundancies. My votes are: Finnegan's Wake, Joyce Life of Johnson, Boswell Mein Kampf, Hitler Lolita, Nabakov Tao Te Ching, Tzu 1984, Orwell

... and The Magus. Feel now ready to crack onto more Pynchon sometime soon. Thats when I finish my currently half read Lolita which I am enjoying very much -- and yes still plugging away at Infinite Jest, one day I'll get there.

#177 & #178 Hasn't it always been true that some love a book that others hate? Some hate Lolita, one of the greatest works of literature (to me) ever written. Some love Catcher in the Rye which I find nothing much except for its timing. When it was written it struck a huge chord. Some ...

... I were on a desert island, I'd bring along that Worst-case Scenario Survival Handbook. If that wasn't allowed, I'd go for Lolita or Pale Fire, or really anything by Nabokov. I'd also bring along Lisa Carey, because she's my wife hahah

#58: I like Nabokov a lot, but I cannot bring myself to read Lolita. I think by the time I die, it will be the only one of his I have not read.

... The Prodigal God – Timothy Keller March 13. Outlander – Diana Gabaldon 14. Agnes Gray – Anne Bronte 15. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 16. UR - Stephen King 17. Summer - Edith Wharton 18. Lamb - Christopher Moore 19. Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho 20. Silas Ma ...

#58 Glad to hear that you finally enjoyed Lolita. I decided that I wanted to read a Nabokov book later this year, and wanted to choose Lolita, but the synopsis just creeped me out too much, so I've chosen another one instead. But, if I discover that I like Nabokov, I won't hesitate to pick ...

23 - Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov A middle aged man's account of his insatiable love for his step-daughter. Reading this made me feel rather nervous at times and my brain kept going ;sidhf;soifdh;sdofi;fi stop reading this!!! But then the paedophiley passages would give way to passages of Na ...

Lolita the scrubbing comment hits the nail on the head!

Bibliophile? Thats like an old man who reads Lolita right? Count me out!

Finished Lolita (book 13) yesterday morning. This was a book off the Yale syllabus and it took all my effort to finish it. I didn't enjoy the writing style nor the storyline and apart from being controversial I am not quite sure what all the fuss is about - even after three lectures on the book!

... It should be a great summer/beach read. And I definitely intend to pick up Reading Lolita in Tehran (I think I'll read Lolita first though, just because I have it and I've been intending to read it!). Thanks for the nudge! 117. Meridian by Amber Kizer Publication date: Aug. 1 ...

... Russia because of Crime and Punishment, Myanmar because of Burmese Days and especially the United States, because of Lolita, The Jungle, The Sound and the Fury, Oryx and Crake, and..... ;)

... that. this is what I'm thinking so far. expect resistance ubik weapon x akira 4 dune messiah lolita a brief history of time Do Androids dream of electric sheep? But I'm open to suggestions. by all means.

... to come. It worked. The effort to read, is well worth it. >22, Excellent literature, but I felt the same way about Lolita. >27 I really liked Burmese Days, albeit with one of the worst villains in all of literature. >25, 28, 29 Hmm, spitting all over the best novel of all Ameri ...

#22 So glad I'm not the only one who felt that way about Lolita, though I did make myself finish it because I wanted to know what all the fuss was about. Having done so, I felt as if I needed a really good scrub in a hot bath.

... book (it's the first one that I remember making a concerted effort to *not* finish it, because I'm such a completist) is Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov. It read as an apology for paedophilia, and I did not like it.

... to have read in order to consider myself well-read? Crime and Punishment The Brother Karamazov War and Peace Lolita Don Quixote Pride and Prejudice Atlas Shrugged As I Lay Dying A Farewell to Arms The Grapes of Wrath Mrs Dalloway Faust Nausea The Strang ...

... to have read in order to consider myself well-read? Crime and Punishment The Brother Karamazov War and Peace Lolita Don Quixote Pride and Prejudice Atlas Shrugged As I Lay Dying A Farewell to Arms The Grapes of Wrath Mrs Dalloway Faust Nausea The Strang ...

So I ran home at lunch, and I had a delivery from Amazon. Yikes: The Evolution of God Lolita The Master Ascent of Money Time Out Shortlist Dubai: For trip planning All the King's Men The Hours Islam (A Short History) Mothers and Sons: Stories And I just downloaded: ...

... Quixote The Brothers Karamazov Moby Dick The Golden Bowl Labyrinths Grapes of Wrath Death of a Salesman Lolita Keep in mind, this is off the top of my head. It is impossible to create a top ten list worth its salt on short notice. As someone here says quite regularly: ...

I'm having a real hard time finishing Breaking Dawn. It has become such a chore. I have never finished Lolita (and never plan to). Some books, though, are worth going back to. I think I tried reading Sophie's Choice about three times before it finally "clicked".

As long as someone had already memorized Lolita, I would choose Ender's Game, as it's one of my faves and I've already re-read it a few times.

... ks 30) Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay 31) Genesis by Bernard Beckett 32) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 33) Lolita by Vladimir Nabokav 34) Gossip Girl by Cecilt Von Ziegesar 35) You Know You Love Me Cecily Von Ziegesar 36) The History of Love by Nicole Krauss 37) Everyd ...

...and I thought the best book about tennis was Lolita.

... is easy, girly, stupid and fun - just the kind of fluff I needed after reading the somewhat difficult and very serious Lolita. The perfect book for a lazy day in the sun, that require very little, if any, brain power. :)

I really like Nabokov's writing - his Speak, Memory is an absolutely wonderful book - but I just cannot make myself read Lolita. I would recommend some of his other books to you though because he is a very good writer.

33) Lolita by Vladimir Nabokav Oh dear. I don't really know what to say about Lolita. Nabokav's utterly creepy and disturbing tale of the relationship between the adult man Humbert Humbert and his love interest, the twelve year old Lolita, is a tale filled obsession, lust, and oddly enough, ...

... of course, they had ever encountered the novel. Yet, I didn't see any basis for placing the novel on equal footing with Lolita. You write: "Sometimes it is the time of publication that makes a piece of literature all that more remarkable." I couldn't agree more - Naked Lunch is a fine ...

45: Burroughs knew how to push people's buttons in the 1950s. I consider Naked Lunch and Lolita as the two greatest novels written in the 1950s. In much the same way Raging Bull and Blue Velvet were the two greatest movies of the 1980s. Burroughs definitely isn't for everyone. Experime ...

Just finished Lolita, a very creepy book, though well-written.

... than Heaven. Such a tearjerker though; keep your tissues close by! :) I finished Jane Eyre, and am now reading Lolita.

I'm reading Lolita by Vladimir Nabokav. 1. Where did you get this book? I bought it at a local fleemarked. 2. Why did you pick this book to read NOW? I've heard so many great things about this book that I thought it was about time I gave it a shot. 3. How long has it been on your shelf? ...

... - Dante Alighieri - "stars." The Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson - "love." Outlander - Diana Gabaldon - "possibility." Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - "Lolita." And ever the great Homer closes his Odyssey with "voice."

maryjanemanolos, I might have been being rather polite above about Lolita. :) I loathed it and couldn't finish it at all. But it has the honour of being the first book I ever put aside out of dislike, rather than boredom/lack of interest/not in the mood/too difficult.

oh man, Treasure Island SOOOO makes me want to swash my buckles. Lolita taught me something life changing, too- no matter how critically acclaimed a book/movie/musical artist is....if it's gross, it's gross. If I'm uncomfortable with the subject matter, end of story. :)

... reads; The Catcher in the Rye showed me as a adult that there is a right time in your life to read certain books; and Lolita taught me that it's okay to not finish a critically acclaimed classic.

... I'd say: Life of Pi Cats Cradle Slaughterhouse-Five The Alchemist Invitation to a Beheading Pale Fire Lolita One Hundred Years of Solitude The whole Harry Potter series.

35> *head explodes* OK, I have to go read Lolita right now, this very second. This man is clearly a terrifying genius.

... was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." 1984 Top marks for both Anna Karenina and Lolita.

re: Picnic, Lightning - did he get that title from Lolita? If so, that is awesome.

... By Dumas Dealing with Dragons by Wrede (tease me about it and I'll fight you!) 100 Years of Solitude by Marquez Lolita by Nabokov The Phantom of the Opera by Leroux (Gets me every time. *sniffle*) Watchmen by Moore My exposure to literature is still very small. I've read a ...

I love the beginning of Lolita... "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta." And I second (or third) the awesomeness of Brideshead Revisited, and ...

... for me. Pnin suffered in comparison to Pale Fire, and is also the weakest of the other Nabokov books I've read (Lolita and Ada). Thanks to all for visiting.

... go back to it after I finish Wonder Boys, which is pretty good so far (even if it's not a TBR challenge book). And then Lolita, because I have to make my (school-)yearly attempt at it and my year is running out.

... if I couldn't appreciate it. I just could not bear to hear another word from that ninny Mrs. D. Similar trouble with Lolita. I have never made it through the most famous novel by my favorite author. I can handle reading about pedophilia; I cannot handle hearing it from that pretentious ...

... - I named the Rabbit series. Others I suggested were Joris-Karl Huysmans - Against Nature (A Rebours) Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita and Pale Fire James Thurber - The Wonderful O and The Thirteen Clocks. I am baffled as to why FS has not published The Wonderful O (it sounds a bit like ...

... Story yet, but I have started Island (got bored, abandoned it. When I finish my sister is going to borrow it.) and Lolita (three attempts at reading so far, always give up around page 20). I should make May my 'finish up those books you started, but haven't finished yet' month. (Al ...

The Neverending Story, Island and Lolita are on my wishlist but I am adding Some of Us Really Do Watch for the Plot just for the name alone.

... (finished 05-18-09) 5. Refuge in Hell by Daniel B. Silver 6. Japan's High Schools by Thomas P. Rohlen 7. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 8. Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose (finished 05-20-09) 9. Some of Us Really Do Watch for the Plot by Various 10. < ...

... Heart. Love Poppy Z. Brite, hated this book. 8) What is the best book you've read in the past year? Tie between Lolita and Jenny and the Jaws of Life. 9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be? A Confederacy of Dunces. 10) Who deserves to ...

... George Orwell, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen, Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, A Fine and Private Place by Peter S. Beagle, Before and After by Rosel ...

Bought three books: Lolita - Nabokov World without end - Follett Calamiteitenleer voor beginners - Pessl (Dutch translation of special topics in calamity physics)

... figuring heavily it them is automatically YA. I have always thought this ridiculous. I agree. By that definition Lolita is YA.

#268: Carolyn, Lolita does not appeal to me, either, but I read Nabokov's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight last year, so you might be interested in reading that one if you want to try some fiction by him. It was his first book and I thought that overall, it was quite good. I have not read ...

... (along with my 2 Anne Bronte books!). I really want to read something by Nabakov and don't think I can handle Lolita so Speak Memory goes on the "to buy" list. (See how much I trust you!) In the Garden of Iden and My Own Country both sound great, so I'll be looking for them ...

... eloquent prose. All in a book shy of 200 pages. Naked Lunch is a total mindfuck, like the bastard twin of Nabokov's Lolita. Naked Lunch is closer to the works of Sade, Swift, Rabelais, and Artaud than the usual naturalist narrative we're used to. It's shocking, disjointed, scary, ...

... like the forthcoming film. also, I've just read Zero Girl, a comic trade paperback which I've seen described as part Lolita and part Carrie which I think is partly accurate, it also has fabulous artwork and an appealing heroine. highly recommended. next up I'm reading The Lambing Fla ...

... reminded me of my ambivalence about Nafisi's book. On some levels, I enjoyed it very much (some of her group's comments on Lolita honestly changed the way I approach that book and the gist of its plot). Yet I was also immediately uncomfortable with the way that Reading Lolita was promoted ...

... have two copies each of Atlas Shrugged, Fountainhead, The Koran, and Winter of Fire by Sherryl Jordan. And I have Lolita in English and Russian. 3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions? Not a bit. 4) What fictional character are you secretly in ...

For me it would be Lolita. Being in that man's head was disturbing to say the least. It felt like I was watching a horror movie and I kept on wanting to call out "get out of the house".

#4, I hated the characters of Wuthering Heights; 'loved the book. Madame Bovary, Lolita, or more accurately the character HH, are equally "bad". All of these titles get pummeled throughout the chats in LT.

#252. Yes, I read Lolita, but I didn't like it one bit. I saw absolutely no humor in it and, to me, Humbert was the sickest of pedophiles. But it appears that I missed the boat on my take because I've heard other people say they "liked" or "felt sorry" for him—most notably in Reading Lolita ...

Even though I've only read Lolita, I've never been enthusiastic about Nabokov. Since I have him in LoA volumes, perhaps I should give him a try.

> 8 I quite agree! The genius of Lolita is in the writing, rather than the slightly misbegotten cast of characters.

>6 True. I should have said I needed to relate to them. The protagonist in Lolita is certainly not likable but I found I could sympathize with him. That was the genius of that particular book in my thoughts.

>3 and >4, I enjoyed Wuthering Heights in spite of the characters. I "appreciated" but didn't enjoy, Lolita, for a similar reason. ...And it probably does bother me a bit when bad things happen to good characters (Anna Karenina, etc.). 'Human nature, I guess.

Just read Lolita from my TBR pile and have moved onto To the Lighthouse. I probably will read a couple of library books after this, in tune with my thriftyness, Tinker, tailor, Soldier, Spy and The Spy Who came in from the Cold both by Le Carré.

... listed in the system.. no location has them at all. They aren't checked out.. just not there. So whats the deal? Has Lolita made libraries hesitant to carry ANY of his novels or is it just my region? (I live near Annapolis, MD)

I wonder if "straight" pornography has been excluded? And has anyone tried to search Amazon for such books as Nabokov's Lolita or John Cleland's Fanny Hill ? I wonder if those were affected too?

... If On a Winter's Night a Traveler? 9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be? Lolita, the annotated version. Then we could talk about how great Nabokov is. 10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature? I'd say Saramago but he ...

... - Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (I think I watched the movie too - Michael Caine) 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte ...

... On a Winter's Night a Traveler? 9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be? Lolita, the annotated version. Then we could talk about how great Nabokov is. 10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature? I'd say Saramago ...

i most certainly would! though if you haven't read Nabokov's other greats (e.g. Lolita and Pale Fire especially and probably An Invitation to a Beheading as well) i'd read those first...Pnin isn't his very best, but it's still up there...

... I loved To Kill a Mockingbird, Nineteen Eighty Four, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Animal Farm, Brave New World, Lolita, The Secret History, Jude the Obscure, and The Remains of the Day. - And I am oh so proud to admit to having read Bridget Jones's Diary! :P - I really ...

... - Margaret Atwood 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding 79 Vanity Fair - William M ...

... - Margaret Atwood 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding 79 Vanity Fair - William M ...

... - Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack Kerou ...

An interesting Wharton I read last year, and had not previously heard much about is The Children. I kept thinking of Lolita and Humbert Humbert although the sense of The Children is of a much earlier time period. It also highlights the common sense of the children vis a vis their elders.

I'm glad to hear that you're liking it! As for Pale Fire: well, if you found Lolita weird, prepare to be taken to the next level of weirdness. Pale Fire takes the form of a 999-line poem, with an introduction and a commentary. The commentary takes up the bulk of the book, and it is in the ...

... - I was in an impossible relationship like that. Seems so far like it will be a 5* for me. Is Pale Fire anything like Lolita? I found Lolita a little bit weird, but have so far read nothing else by Nabokov.

"Please, reader:...Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me..." - Lolita Just about any line from that book would qualify, but I especially love that arrogant prick giving us one moment of desperation and true vulnerability (assuming anything old HH says is true). Oh, and for ...

Don't avoid Lolita. It is absolutely marvellous. I put off reading it too for many years for the same reason, but the book from is not full of child sex scenes but full of wonderful language. Humbert is so witty, urbane and articulate that you almost forget he is a pedophile. If you like Naba ...

In a music seminar yesterday, a visiting speaker asked how many of the attendees had read Lolita. All but a few people raised their hands (and I was among the few who did not, Nabokov being a gap I need to fill one of these days). Thanks to this thread, I was left wondering whether anyone was ...

In an attempt to read more classics, I picked up Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov without really knowing what it was about, the summary just barely hinted at the content with broad phrases like Forbidden love So apparently this novel is the car crash of the literary world, one of those things you ...

... Beowulf A French Phrasebook Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon by Kaye Gibbons Lolita Hotel Pastis by Peter Mayle Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges Into History --for my boyfriend! and a number of Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazines It's ...

... do have it upstairs, the bits of the movie I did manage to watch looked rather amusing, strangely enough), and I gave up on Lolita. I might have preferred them when I was 17, I may not have had quite the same reaction to Humbert Humbert when I was younger and innocent and far less cynical. I ...

Lolita and Naked Lunch -- 50s literary Americana at its best, chest-bursting cannibal centipedes included ;)

Thanks for the warning, wookiebender. I'll have a look into it. Last year I had a student write an appropriation of Lolita (quite a successful one, in fact) and another one inspired by American Psycho (argh! it took me four goes to type 'psycho' correctly) so they seem to have much more, er, ...

My impression of Lolita at a first read is that it does not live up to its literary reputation and has had the unfortunate side effect of adding lolita (initial lowercase) to our vocabulary. Dolores is not a lolita, and that is what I see as unfortunate. She has some innate problem, but that ...

... book about Italy, I'll have a bowl of pasta. Does anyone else here do this? It does get tricky when you enter the world of Lolita heehee. Anyone else think of good combos between food and books? How about The Wizard of Oz and poppyseed muffins!

... 7. Wolf By the Ears by Ann Rinaldi 8. The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland 9. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 10. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark do plays count? because then I would take out Austenland and Wolf By the Ears and ...

Yes, I love the way the man writes, and I went on to read Transparent Things since reading Lolita, AND I bought two more of his books that I have yet to read. I found Lolita unnerving, all the same.

I loved Lolita. Brought it to my book club, we read it, they all wanted to puke. I fell in love with his use of language, and the black perversity of it all. I think that it matters whether you require your protagonist to be likeable, whether you need to identify with him or her, as ...

... I ever finished Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. I want to get to several of Vladimir Nabokov's books, especially Lolita, Pnin, and Pale Fire, and I'll definitely participate in the J.D. Salinger mini-author read later this year (hmm, I wonder if there is a Library of America ...

Lolita is creepy and disgusting. Excellent, witty and best-in-class literature, but still creepy.

... and Dostoyevsky is that Nabokov can create compelling stories with disreputable characters -- like Humbert Humbert in Lolita and Dostoyevsky's Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment But maybe Twilight's popularity will be a blessing in disguise. How much has Dan Brown written since The ...

#86 - Do you mean the Stanley Kubrick version of Lolita? I don't remember a monologue at the end and it seems very un-Kubrick for him to explain himself, though I confess it's years and years since I watched it.

I'd say this graph is a great argument for just how racist and classist the SATs are. Lolita, favorite book of rich white males everywhere! :-)

... high. Zane, whom I haven't read but have been tempted by, apparently is really low brow. So it's not heat that put Lolita toward the top -- or is it high brow heat? Robert

... from your commentaries however. I suppose part of the problem is that I read Ada or Ardor and Despair and saw Lolita, so I was taken aback by the structure and the topic. I think there is some definite value in reading the commentary first, but I'm not sure it makes it easier to ...

... be read" list, but definitely not this year. One's enough!! If you'd like to try a more modern Russian author, read Lolita or anything by Nabokov. I read it last year and was completely blown away. I was also fascinated by your review of Joe Hill's book. One presumes that's ...

... Kill a Mockingbird -- Harper Lee 53) Breakfast at Tiffany's -- Truman Capote 54) Pnin -- Vladimir Nabokov 55) Lolita -- Vladimir Nabokov 56) Lord of the Flies -- William Golding 57) Invisible Man -- Ralph Ellison 58) The Old Man and the Sea -- Ernest Hemingway ...

Lolita blew me away but I couldn't get into Pale Fire but am willing to give Nabokov a few more chances on the strength of L. What a writer. Just finished Past Imperfect J Fellowes and forced myself to stay awake to read it last night. I never thought I would care about idle rich ...

Lolita! by Vladimir Nabokov

#103 - Wow, that is some endorsement of Pale Fire. *races off to put it on wishlist* I was blown away by Lolita, so I will most definitely have to read it.

... #88: I think Pale Fire is one of the most brilliant books anyone's ever written, even surpassing Nabokov's Lolita. I've read PF 3 times over the last 30 years, been dazzled by it every time, and even have a US 1st edition of it from 1962.

8.2 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov started 2/24/09; finished 2/28/09

... little pomo tricks that shout how clever the author is, you're probably right, but if there is something to be learned from Lolita I would enjoy it, I think. Bend Sinister was not a difficult or dull read, it's just that the in your face pomo stuff, to me at any rate, got in the way of the ...

... unnecessary, and a bit showy. However, I will say that his treatment of Mariette combined with what I have heard about Lolita, a book I have yet to read, indicates to me an obsession with young, teenaged, girls. Was Nabokov a rain-coat wearing, dirty old flasher in real life, or is that ...

... it's 300+ pages of *poetry*? I have a complete inability to read poetry (it just doesn't stick) and could not finish Lolita so I'm thinking I might be skipping Pale Fire...

Nabokov got his job at Cornell before he became famous. Lolita made him famous and paid for the rest of his life. He moved into a hotel in Switzerland to write and otherwise spend the rest of his life. As he published books they were reviewed attentively in the middle and high brow press. ...

... a living. But I would suggest Vlad-y was likely being a trifle disingenuous or playful. I think with the exception of LOLITA, he probably didn't make huge bucks from many of his literary offerings, nor do I think was that a driving focus in the creation of his art. He always seemed to have ...

I've read Lolita 2 - 3 times, the final time with the much-needed annotations. I've also read a few of his short stories. Maybe after Greene and Warhammer 40K, I'll read The Gift or Ada. Or some Henry James.

... ote Candide Fathers and Sons War and Peace The Sound and the Fury The Master and Margarita Anna Karenina Lolita A Confederacy of Dunces Of course Rivethead and Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales occupy a special place in my heart... (...quietly shuffles ...

Hmm top 10's are fun but very difficult for me because they change a lot. But here goes, Coraline, Neuromancer, lolita, Brave new world, Swann's way, catcher in the rye, Jude the obscure, Ender's game, old man and the sea, beowulf.

No e-mail yet... From the different lists above, there are 7 titles I would pick up: Lolita and Utopia Waverley, The Master and Margarita, and Of Human Bondage Leviathan and Moll Flanders I find the lists fairly appealing. Edited PS: But why don't they send a long list—I ...

... GALAXY, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT - to go with my Folio Goodbye to all that and Memoirs of a fox hunting man, LOLITA and THE TIGER IN THE SMOKE - this would go well with the Christie and Sayers already published although I have missed much of these From the other list I would ...

... harder-to-find works--maybe if they see there is a continued interest in Graves they will include this in the future. Lolita would be great--IF, the illustrations were done right. I can't imagine the story these days without images of Kubrick's film version, and the illustrations would ...

Lolita Blood Meridian The Sun Also Rises Moby Dick Proust's Search Hamlet The first three tend to be the ones I recommend most often to people. I've also found that when I read Moby Dick I tend to be driven by some psycho-pathology to read Blood Meridian next, and visa versa.

... by Anthony Burgess Neuromancer / Pattern Recognition by William Gibson The Royal Family by William T. Vollmann Lolita by Nabokov Philosophy in the Bedroom by DAF Sade

Hi all, I'm new to the group and quietly adding my own little list to the bunch. I have never successfully kept track of how many books I've read throughout the year, so I don't really know how many to shoot for. But 75 seems as good a starting point as any! Here are the books I've read so far. I ...

... present for a friend, and ended up with 3 for myself despite my good, money-saving intentions. She gets Jane Eyre and Lolita, neither of which she has ever read (yes, I sometimes force my taste in books on people). I get An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, The Woman ...

... subtle artist would not be appreciated by the volume reader. Is the ultimate book snob the one who would rather re-read Lolita or The Recognitions or Suttree for a second or third time in 2009?

... groups. I'm reading faster than usual at the moment (or spending more time doing so anyway), and have just finished Lolita and moved on to Reading Lolita in Tehran. That seemed like a sensible plan before i started, but in practice the second book is suffering by comparison. After this ...

I have not read Lolita but I have read Evil Genius.

I have not read No Time for Goodbye, but i have read Lolita

Lolita

... was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita." - Lolita

There's an early version of Lolita called The Enchanter. The Gift also looks good. I've read some of his short stories, which are also quite nice. I also need to read more of him. His essays on literature look promising. He's rather opinionated on things.

... written as a huge serial for a newspaper (first) before being compiled into a book... not the best way to write clearly. Lolita is another "should read" that many people (a) claim to have read, (b) claim to understand through cultural reference, (c) claim as a seminal work (no pun intended), ...

4. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (book club read, also a re-read for me) - beautifully written book which needs little introduction. It amazes me Nabokov could write so well in what is not even his first language.

I haven't read Lolita But I have read Candide

Ti99er, The most recent read of those listed is Lolita. All of those listed are favorites of mine on the subject for various reasons and I have read them over the last 15 years. They are similar in theme because the doc was looking for such suggestions. You'll have to let me know how you enjoy ...

... message - a few people have told me I should get on with Everything is Illuminated as soon as I can. I've just started Lolita for my book club, so perhaps it will be next after that. Good luck with your challenge too. 3. The Drought by J G Ballard (from my tbr pile) - not one of his ...

... Expectations How Green was my Valley In Her Shoes Kite Runner Last Temptation of Christ Little Children Lolita Lord of the Flies Memoirs of a Geisha Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Mists of Avalon, as well as so many King Arthur movies Namesake Pay it ...

I'm, ah, Lolita. I'm not sure how those questions come to this conclusion but here it is... Considered by most to be depraved and immoral, you are obsessed with sex. What really tantalizes you is that which deviates from societal standards in every way, though you admit that this probably ...

... Orwell The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger Lolita Vladimir Nabokov One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Fellowship of the Ring J.R.R. Tolkien Catch-22 Jose ...

... lass: Oh, you must move something by Nabokov to the top of your to-be-read pile; he was such an amazing author. I've read Lolita, Pnin and Pale Fire, and I would definitely recommend starting with Lolita; besides its cultural significance, it is by far the most accessible of the three (and ...

... ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. It wasn't a fast read (at least for me), but engaging and thought provoking. I have not read Lolita, primarily because the subject matter is sickening, but as a former lit major, I feel compelled to do so eventually.

I'm re-reading Lolita, but I'm having to take breaks because the subject matter is so horrifying. I'm trying to get through Lolita so I can finish Reading Lolita in Tehran.

... Criminal Mind by Stanton Samenow......an often quoted and referenced manual on the subject. Interestingly, I thought Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov was a startling and near completely accurate depiction of the mind of a child predator. I was haunted in reading it by the accuracy of the ...

a uk first of lolita for 15euro. i also have a fairly decent 1st of a clockwork orange which is worth a hell of a lot more than i paid for it, but it still wasn't cheep. once on ebay i saw a copy of two tales of shem and shaun by Joyce and i didn't bid. it went for less than 20euro and is ...

... Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (F) 3. Asleep - Banana Yoshimoto (SS, 3) 4. Lolita - Vladimir Nabakov

i just found out about this website a few days ago and when i saw the 999 challenge i knew i had to be a part of it. i don't think the challenge is so much in reading the books as in narrowing it down to which books you will read! i'm having a hard time picking nine categories but figured i can ...

Lolita is suffused with crime. And butterflies. What about war novels? The Sword of Honor (Waugh) is the best I've read on WW2.

... henitsyn). What about sea stories? Moby Dick (Melville), The Journals of Captain Cook. I should also probably add Lolita (Nabokov) to the crime novel list.

... A companion to V. Those "companion" books helped me figure out what's what with The Crying of Lot 49. I did reread Lolita a couple times. Once when I was in high school, looking for "the good parts." Then I reread the Annotated Edition a few years later, since I didn't know French. ...

... ked. That said, I liked it. But it was nowhere near as rewarding an experience as re-reading a Foucault's Pendulum or a Lolita or even an American Gods. Unfair, I know, naming my four favourite books. But such is life.

... Hartley, 1970's 161. Lord of the Flies, William Golding, 1960's 162. The Story of O, Pauline Reage, 1960's 163. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 2007 164. The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith, 1980's 165. Justine, Lawrence Durrell, 1969 166. Dr. Zhivago, Boris Pasternak, 1 ...

... Hartley, 1970's 161. Lord of the Flies, William Golding, 1960's 162. The Story of O, Pauline Reage, 1960's 163. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 2007 164. The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith, 1980's 165. Justine, Lawrence Durrell, 1969 166. Dr. Zhivago, Boris Pasternak, 1 ...

... th Interesting Times - Terry Pratchett Soul Music - Terry Pratchett * A Confederacy Of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov Men At Arms - Terry Pratchett The Crimson Petal And The White - Michael Faber Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pa ...

... by Vladimir Nabokov, which could not be more unlike Crazy 08. I don't think it's as spectacularly wonderful as Lolita or Pale Fire, but it's an earlier book so I forgive him. I did enjoy it, immensely. It had the same sort of weirdness as The Trial, but I don't think it was ...

... but will try to pare it down to five. In order read: The Book Thief On Chesil Beach A prayer for Owen Meany Lolita Things fall apart

... So it's actually definitely Kafkaesque, though Nabokov insisted it wasn't. This wasn't as good as his masterpieces Lolita and Pale Fire, but still an excellent read.

... more about that world region and more books about books. Also seem to have read a lot of books that quoted extensively from Lolita recently... Isn't it funny the way books 'speak' to each other? I guess I should be no more surprised than I am that my brother and I, or my children, came from ...

This a tough question. I really liked Lolita, The Satanic Verses, Midaq Alley, Ethan Frome, Summer, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. On the other hand, I am really glad I read Don Quixote (whew, what a slog) and Moby Dick, though they weren't quite as enjoyable.

-49 I really enjoyed Lolita as well. Pale Fire is very different. I have to say I enjoyed it more once reading about the huge literary debates it spawned. It was highly amusing to read about the fights and books published theorizing the motivations of these imaginary people. I'd advise checking ...

1001 Books ... 1. Lolita 2. The Color Purple 3. The Sun Also Rises 4. Choke 5. A Clockwork Orange 6. The Shipping News 7. American Pastoral 8. An Artist of the Floating World 9. 2001: A Space Odyssey

... Man by Ralph Ellison. I really like it so far. #48 jlelliot... Pale fire is on my list for 2009. I loved Lolita.

Made Into a Movie(replaced Jan 21st with Ruth Rendell) Stella Dallas Lolita The Manchurian Candidate East of Eden Of Human Bondage The Forsythe Saga From The Terrace Forever Amber Grapes of Wrath

I would have to say my favorite in 2008 was Lolita and I have read 42 this year. I am now reading A Fine Balance and it just might beat out Lolita.

#57 & 58 Why were you unconvinced? I'm just curious; was the the text of Lolita itself that you had problems with, the way the author wrote about it, or the Iranian girls themselves and their reactions? As I said before, I'm currently reading the book, and I'd be interested to hear your issues ...

Finished Lolita, which was much more disturbing than I imagined, and now reading Soul Music, because Terry Pratchett pretty much owns me. Also rereading A Confederacy of Dunces because we all need a little Ignatius J. Reilly in our lives.

Soul Music Lolita The Tales of Beedle the Bard I'm also going to spend the rest of the weekend with elderly relatives, so I'm bringing a BUNCH of books to help me survive.

I officially have an incurable addiction. And I don't want to get well. Maskerade Lolita The Satanic Verses American Pastoral

Here goes: Peace Like a River by Leif Enger Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger The Kindness of Strangers by Katrina Kittle Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Hands down, my favorite book this year was Peace Like a River by Leif Enger. Top in Fiction: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger The Kindness of Strangers by Katrina Kittle Top Memoir: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls ...

... by Robert E. Vardeman 8. Classics I haven't read but want to 8.1 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 8.2 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 8.3 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 8.4 The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 8.5 Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling 8.6 ...

... Nabokov on my challenge thread yet this year, although I have other places on LT (like, whenever anyone anywhere brings up Lolita. Can't resist. It's a problem). How wonderful is he? So very wonderful. Speak, Memory is an autobiography of sorts (although not the standard, first-this-event-then ...

47 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Not at all keen on this. Couldn't make much sense of it. 48 Lolita by Nabokov. Long, unusual, pretty shocking actually. 49 When the Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs. Good but not as good as I may have expected. 50 Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank. OK, but ...

Two faves right now, always subuect to change: Lolita and Angela's Ashes.

Finished Lolita last night. Wow! Disturbing subject matter not withstanding, the book was brilliant. It makes me wish I could read Russian. If he can accomplish Lolita in English, his Russian books must be nothing short of miraculous. Now for a dramatic change of pace, I'm going to pick up ...

... about butterflies and whatnot. And as for creating those unsettling, seedy, megalomaniacal protagonists, wookiebender (a la Lolita), Nabokov absolutely excels. Thanks for bringing up Oscar Wilde, wookiebender. One of my Extension 2 students is doing a folktale writing project. She ...

The Gathering, most definitely. I kept waiting for something to happen, for it all to be worth it. But alas. I found Lolita to be a bit mixed - loved the outset, thought the end was a bit strange and tacked on, but the road trip in the middle? Incredibly boring. The only thing that got me ...

Put aside Lolita after about 60 pages. Modesty aside, I consider myself to be a fairly 'hardcore' reader, and i appreciate what Nabokov has going on in terms of prose, but that didn't mean it was any fun to read. I'll go back to it; it's not like there's really any narrative I'll lose track of ...

... Not hard to see that all the stink over Scalzi is all about, plus he looks to be fairly prolific thus far. Started Lolita. Not very far yet. We'll see. Almost done with Ira Flatow's 'Present at the Future'. I enjoy Flatow's Science Friday show on NPR, but this book just doesn't ...

... inapppropriate to say in a forum community designed to commiserate over shared hatred for certain novels, but I did like Lolita. For me the experience was a lot like reading The Picture of Dorian Gray; the story was so beautifully written that you have no choice but to watch the impending ...

... by Katherine Mansfield and Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land; although both will have to wait until I've finished Lolita, which is the book my book group is going to discuss at our next meeting. I'll post the poetry pile eventually, too. This is fun!

... Before by Umberto Eco Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George Kiss Me Deadly by Mickey Spillane Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov because it's high time I read it!

Miss-Owl, I loathed Lolita so am not at all keen to try anything else by Nabokov. (Apparently it was supposed to be funny. Go figure.) Can't image reading anything worthy with a background of Kylie. :) And I'm certainly not driving a big blue station wagon around Sydney, I don't know who that ...

Just finished Lolita and started The Diary of Anais Nin, Volume 1 last night :) #19 - Hi cornerhouse, how is Kristin Lavransdatter so far? I'm thinking of reading it soon...

... Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers 127. Sula by Toni Morrison 128. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison 129. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 130. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis 131. Chocolat by Joanne Harris

Lolita.

Lolita.

... like to hear what you think of Pale fire too Crimson-tide. I've not read anything of his before. But, I do have a copy of Lolita about the house somewhere...

#22 - also reading Lolita and enjoying it so far. love the lyrical prose!

Clarissa, Roxana, Jane Eyre, and Lolita are the newest members of The Persian Pickle Club.

I just finished Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (fantastic) and started Lolita by Nabokov :)

... by Elizabeth Jane Howard. The book group I'm in had, however, decreed a change of continents, to the USA for Lolita.

... This year, to remind myself what reading is all about, I reread every book I have of Vladimir Nabokov's. A master! Lolita, Laughter in the Dark, Pale Fire, Pnin...so many.

Hi jonesli. You have some great choices on your list. I've read Lolita, East of Eden, and Anna Karenina, and all were great reads. I really like your idea of having a "Made into a Movie" category. I haven't signed up for the challenge yet because I'm still thinking about what categories I'd ...

Ulysses by James Joyce Naked by David Sedaris Snow by Orhan Pahmu Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Inglorious by Joanna Kavenna

#22 jlelliott - Lolita is the greatest book ever. Enjoy! I'm reading Ulysses right now, which is not as difficult as I thought it would be. I'm actually kind of enjoying it.

... two great books in one post! Enjoy The Lace Reader though I am sure it's a very different kind of a read from Lolita. Reading them back-to-back would be dizzy-making! >63 Ficus, well there goes The Feast of the Goat off the wish list! Thank you, kind Ficus, and keep up the ...

I finished Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov last Thursday. I can’t fathom how Nabokov could write so beautifully in English when it wasn’t his first language. There’s no chance I’ll ever even come close to speaking or writing so well in English and it’s my first language! The story itself ...

I just started Lolita and I am really enjoying his style so far.

... is great, White Noise is Don DeLillo (difficult, but compelling), and I've never read any Nabakov since giving up on Lolita in disgust. (I didn't get the humour and thought it was just an extended excuse for paedophilia. Others may disagree, but I doubt I'll ever reattempt this one.)

#195 Lolita is, in my mind, the greatest book ever written. You are in for a treat, elee richard, I love that you named your car after Humbert coppers - I'm also going to chime in on The Thirteenth Tale. I thought it was a lot of fun.

... here. Instead I will just say that the story itself is bizarre but entertaining, and I like it a lot. Next up will be Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, due to a very enthusiastic recommendation from richardderus (thanks!).

... story, is one of my all-time favorite pieces of short fiction, and I hope you get a big thrill out of the collection. Lolita. No more need be said than, on the first page of the book, the author has the narrator report the death of his entire family in a parenthetical aside: "...(picnic, ...

... the inspiration for me to purchase so many of his books at once. From the bookstore at the University where I work: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton (not specifically because I had a bad day, although perhaps philosophy could have helped ...

I think I'll read The Satanic Verses or Lolita.

Lolita and Fellowship for group reads, Jane Eyre for school, as well as a zillion essays, articles, and short pieces for both classes. I just got bits and pieces of a few series by Mercedes Lackey that I've not read; they're dangling carrots for when I catch up on required/group reading. ...

Finished Lolita. I'm not sure there's a whole lot I can say about it that hasn't already been said. I loved it, and I was disturbed by how much I loved it. I'm sure that's what a great book should do. At some point in my life I'll pick up Annotated Lolita and try to get more out of the ...

Hi. Thanks for your comments regarding Lolita. I read Wild Nights -- a series of short stories regarding the last days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James and Hemingway. Mark Twain is one of my favorite American literature writers. I even visited his house in Hartford, CT. But, I was ...

Yes, yes......Lolita is such a fun one to discuss.....do give us your thoughts!

... on the 1001 Books To Read. The description was intriguing (and disturbing.) I'm very curious to hear your thoughts re. Lolita

11 september 2008 (book 62) Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

I agree with overthemoon and Pepys re Nabokov. Let us have Pale Fire first, as that needs to be better known than Lolita.

I'm in the middle of a few books, and I have a stack waiting to be started :) This week I'm working on on Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Seven Up by Janet Evanovich, and Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman.

From the university bookstore: The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (50th anniversary edition)

... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - they're turning it into two movies for us HP fans. It sounds like I need to read Lolita.

... this was not a piece of lit, but a sefer that I read for the Early Reviewer program, so I list it here as a "read book". Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov I read this while camping and so was very relaxed while reading. When I began I was afraid that it would be a bit more graphic than I would ...

Most: anything else by Nabokov. I loved Lolita and look forward to reading anything that possesses anywhere near that level of linguistic virtuosity. Least: while there are a few I'm glad I've already read for uni -Clarissa and Gravity's Rainbow among them - Joyce's Finnegan's Wak ...

... Gate and loving it - totally made up for the struggle I had with The Golem's Eye. I'm starting my book club read of Lolita this week, and will have read half of Emma by Thursday for class. I think I'll also read Caddie Woodlawn followed by the rest (books 2-9) of the Little House ...

... At first, I wasn't sure whether Meyer could pull off the writing style, but it ended up working out for her. Started Lolita, and loving it so far.

... for having a 'relationship' with a 14yo in 1946 - it was this that accounts for him having an unnamed guest appearance in Lolita. Didn't Navratilova 'write' a few novels in the 90s? That's a side subject - tennis in fiction.... Saw a little of Ivanovic today - she was lucky to win; ...

... never heard of. I still have my copy of Daddy Long Legs that I got for Christmas when I was eight. You should read Lolita, and soon. It's amazing - Nabokov is probably the most gifted writer ever. It's a lot easier than the Faulkner, which is also (IMO) totally worth reading ...

... it was published in 1939? The Great Gatsby misses it by two years? Faulkner's stuff? Animal Farm? Native Son? Lolita?

... I have so many other books I've read throughout my life I would not part with. I see some of them listed. The tremulous Lolita for instance.

... language is almost unmatched in my reading. I experience powerful emotional reactions to his writing. I couldn't finish Lolita because of it, and Ada was magnificently disturbing. I think I will try to expand the "N" section:)

... might be offended because it contained a description of an abortion performed on a victim of incest? Or Nabokov's ,Lolita been destroyed because it dealt with a man obsessed with sex with young girls? The list of controversial books that were still published at the risk of offending ...

I can't narrow it down to one, so I won't even try. My top three are Lolita, Jane Eyre, and The Sound and the Fury. Pride and Prejudice is really, really, really close behind them.

... "What is that gigantic book??" Didn't help matters. The Bronze Horseman - One of those I read at least once a year. Lolita - I was so disturbed reading this for the first time that I had to put it down. When I finally picked it up again, I fell in love with Nabokov's writing style and he ...

#186: For me, reading Lolita was kind of like watching a car crash; you desperately want to look away but you just can't manage it. Nabokov's writing style kept pulling me back in even though I felt the need to take a shower the second I was finished. My experience with The Picture of Dorian Gray ...

I'm amazed nobody yet has nominated Lolita. Nasty, grubby, misogynistic.

a foreshadowing name if ever there was one! - the hotel from Lolita

oh, and of course I thought that now would be a brilliant time for beginning a book club - we start Lolita next week.

... wonderful, but painstaking reading.Their topics range from cyborg existentialism to pomo gothic and an appropriation of Lolita(!). Hey, wookiebender - I'm jealous! Love that "banned books" bracelet!

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 1001: 10/20 Non-fiction: 4/20

... Without a Country and am looking forward to reading this one, which has been on my list for a long time. Last month was Lolita, which I found was a completely different book the second time around.

As I mentioned before Lolita was selected for me, I'm in the middle of This is Your Brain on Music which I'm roughly half way through and loving it. For anyone who plays an instrument or has more than a passing interest in music, I'd already recommend it. Problem is...we recently bought a Wi ...

adamallen - How about Lolita? I've been thinking about adding that to my list of books to read and would be curious to hear your thoughts. For whoever chooses for me next, please choose a book tagged "TBR". These are all books that I own but have not yet read. Thanks!

... yesterday we finished up Death of A Salesman in class, and today I finished my Poe book, so now I will be starting Lolita. Currently on page: < ...

... blows my mind to think that I can read the thoughts and ideas of someone living so long ago). #6 - I didn't find Lolita morally ambivalent at all. Ditto with Crime and Punishment. In any case, I don't think lessons in morality are the value of great works of literature. If you've ...

I agree. Anais Nin is literature. I would treat it the same way I'd treat Lolita. I wouldn't put it in the same class with the stuff that is basically just female porn. I probably would register it, but I'd be selective in who I gave it to, or I would leave it somewhere that is selective ...

... we are on the planet. It is btw the story of Marcus Tullius Cicero, one of the most fascinating men in history. Also, Lolita changed the way I thought about reading. Nabokov is the most interesting writer, and was a genius as far as prose and twistiness of plot. He wrote the ulitmate ...

... sorted it all out…but it was a struggle. Overall, I thought this was a wonderful first novel for the author. 30. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. Classic story about a romance of sorts between an older man and young girl. Good story, a bit slow in places. I can see why some wanted ...

... I was reading the review and when it quoted Harry Fannin's one-line summation of Lolita, I laughed so hard my computer monitor gained an Earl Shibe-like coating of Mountain Dew.

... terrible of me I know, but I have read none of the books referred to in Nafisi's book. Like you, I have the urge to read Lolita now and I am more than a little curious about The Great Gatsby.

... especially since Keshavarz herself had a comparison in mind. I enjoyed Nafisi's book, which made me want to read Lolita.

... James Joyce 2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 3. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce 4. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 5. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 6. The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner 7. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller 8. Sons and Lovers by D ...

... book sale is still coming up, philosojerk, but Ada, or Ardor is my favorite novel of Nabokov's. (The others I've read are Lolita, Pnin, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight and The Eye) It has the most stunning, gorgeous prose of any of his works I've encountered, and a cast of marvelous ...

#53 I loved Lolita...I was repulsed and yet drawn at the same time. As for Thus spoke Zarathustra even though I didn't read it per se, I went through alot of it for a philosophy paper involving him and Dostoyevsky. Personally, I think if you just skim a couple of places, you'll be fine. #13 ...

I'm still working my way through Lolita.

For François, as he asked why I'd choose Lolita. People should put aside the ignorant controversy and just read it. It is one of the most exquisitely written books in the English language. And English was obviously not Nabokov's first language. To quote Martin Amis: 'You read Lolita ...

... Knave which I liked a lot--though my memory of it now is rather foggy. The others I really liked were Bend Sinister, Lolita, Laughter in the dark and The real life of Sebastian Knight. To me Nabokov can be a bit hit and miss--Pale fire for instance although it is loved by a lot of ...

I'm working my way through three books at the moment... Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche and An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen (just the play) I've kind of stalled at page 200 of Zarathustra, anyone have any thoughts on whether it's worth ...

Jeremy Irons reading Lolita is incredible, though his reading makes the book almost more creepy!!!!

I have just finished Lolita by Nabokov and have started The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. So far I like it very much and it's a pretty quick read.

I have just finished Lolita by Nabokov and started The Turn of the Screw by Henry James.... Hmm, touchstones won't load. PS: >84: Wow, replying to a message that comes after mine. I guess you're right, they seem to load now. I have done it before, but sometimes I'm too impatient or ...

I like Lolita, Pale Fire and Pnin, but I LOOOOVE Ada - as a comedy, family drama, love story, mystery, lingual game, examination of gender...what DOESN'T that book have? Maybe I wouldn't start with it, but I definitely recommend it. By far my favorite Nabokov novel.

1. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 2. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 3. A Man Without A Country by Kurt Vonnegut 4. Novecento by Alessandro Baricco 5. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

"Don't stand so close to me" from Lolita. Never particularly liked that song, although didn't mind the Police. Sting has always been a pretentious prat. I'm not sure that a booklover should partner up with another booklover. Best to find yourself someone with lots of nervous energy who will do ...

Must read some Nabokov! Which one should I start with? I suppose Lolita is the obvious one - but I wonder which one Nabokov himself would want me to start with.

... read Jane Eyre. Now I just need to go back and re-read The Eyre Affair so I can move on to the sequels! I also read Lolita only because I wanted to read Reading Lolita in Tehran - and I wound up loving Lolita and not caring for Reading Lolita in Tehran at all.

... a novel also come to mind. I just finished The Book Thief, already mentioned. Great book. I think someone mentioned Reading Lolita in Teheran. And, yes, who could ever forget Possession. Do books that stand on the shoulders of other books count? On Beauty, a novel shadowing Howar ...

... my Asian choices so far too - India, China and Japan have all had some wonderful books, and as for Russia, well, I adored Lolita by Nabokov. It's interesting to see the different styles from different countries and authors.

Jveezer, I'm envious that you're reading Lolita for the first time. I wish I could do the same. Having said that, it becomes something different and exposes more of its intricacies and savouries with every read. Relish every word. I hope it astounds you as it does me. I recommend The Annot ...

I thought that The Enchanter was more of a precursor to Lolita, but it is true that Margot in Laughter in the Dark is very reminicent of Lo. Lolita wasn't, I don't think, really mean by nature, but because of circumstances was easily able to slip into the role. Which in the end may amount to ...

Fascinating. Did Nabokov write Laughter in the Dark before or after he wrote Lolita?

... collection, Labyrinth, among the CC's since I've been wanting to read some Borges for a long time. I was also hoping for Lolita and was curious that it seems to have never been published by Folio. I finally succumbed and found a mint copy from the Easton Press on eBay. I also learned that ...

... publish it if only to stop me ranting. Having said that, I was *more* vehement in my campaign to get them to publish Lolita and I don't envisage that to be looming o'er any horizons soon. To answer your question, Lizzy: no, they haven't published my Castaway's Choice, which is, as I ...

I somehow managed to be in the middle of three books at once: Out of the Silent Planet, by C.S. Lewis Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov Underworld, by Don DeLillo

... a doctor travelling across Canada on a one-man mission to bring rats to Alberta, since Alberta has no rats of its own. Lolita Driving Mr. Albert A reporter, a scientist and Albert Einstein's brain in formaldehyde

I gave up on Lolita several years ago because as beautiful as the writing was, I just didn't give a damn about it. Last fall I read Reading Lolita in Tehran, and it made me want to revist the book now that I've read some criticism on it.

... I loved The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency for its simplicity and for the other attributes given by #362 pechmerle. Lolita - a fine piece of writing, although it might be the content that turned you off. The Historian - I'm with everyone else who hated it.

GeorgiaDawn--Lolita is just so purple. I don't get the hype. I guess it's just because the topic is so shocking for its time period.

#351 - The Bentley - I'm in total agreement on Lolita. I started it, didn't like it, kept reading it, it didn't get better, finished it, and STILL didn't like it.

I'm just going to say it: I hated Lolita. Maybe I'm jaded, but I wasn't at all offended by the story. The prose, however, is ten shades of purple. I'm pretty sure I could get the same effect by stealing the diary of a sensitive (and annoying) 14-year-old boy.

1. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski 2. Montgomery's Children by Richard Perry 3. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 4. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth 5. A Pentecost of Finches by Robert Siegel

... Nabokov for decades. My favorite of his Russian novels is The Gift, of his American ones is either Pale Fire or Lolita. I adore Pnin as well. But Speak, Memory is probably my favorite of his books. My favorite of the editions I own is The Real Life of Sebastian Knight in the ...

... annoying at times, but for the most part I was too busy laughing! I can't really say the same for Kubrick's adaptation of Lolita, though, and I have yet to read more of his book-to-movie adaptations.

... Perfume? Tough one, but probably something by Ralph Lauren Number? 8 Song? At the moment, "Velouria" by the Pixies Book? Lolita TV Show? Seinfeld, South Park or Match Game '76 haha Movie? Monty Python and the Holy Grail and The Quiet Man Cuisine? Mexican!! (at least while I'm eating it) Fo ...

I'm fairly new here, so apologies if I'm gate-crashing. Would agree with Lolita. Lots of people I know don't get the farcical nature of it at all. I think it's extremely witty and clever. My favourite though, and the only book to make me laugh out loud page after page is Catch-22. You feel ...

The three funniest books I've ever read: Mating, by Norman Rush Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis

... - I did read a couple of the titles from Reading Lolita in Tehran. Well, I started with good intentions anyway! I read Lolita and Daisy Miller, and I think one other which escapes me now.

... Knight from the library this afternoon. Not sure what I'm going to pick up once those are done. Currently listening to Lolita by Nabokov, read wonderfully by Jeremy Irons.

... I were on a desert island, I'd bring along that Worst-case Scenario Survival Handbook. If that wasn't allowed, I'd go for Lolita or Pale Fire, or really anything by Nabokov. I'd also bring along Lisa Carey, because she's my wife. Thanks - Jessa

... Luis Borges Gabriel Garcia Marquez Goethe Gunter Grass Joao Guimaraes Rosa Lu Xun Moby Dick Lolita Pedro Paramo Juan Rulfo Salman Rushdie A Season of Migration to the North Tayeb Salih Anton Chekhov The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon ...

... o. Is Nabokov a Russian writer? The answer is probably yes and no. I recommend Pale Fire, arguably even better than Lolita.

... I've read Speak, Memory and Mashen'ka or Mary by Nabokov, and enjoyed both books very much. I'm hoping to start Lolita soon: what other books of his do you all recommend?

... of my favorite books by picking up things with interesting covers, though-- that's my method of choice. It's how I found Lolita (the one with the saddle shoes), Journey to the End of the Night (the one with the hand), and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. There has to be some ...

... be classified as YA and was written by a local author, so that was fun for our group. Personally, I'm not a big fan of Lolita. I had to read it in college and read it again for the book group. I think our group was pretty evenly split. You either really liked it or really didn't like it! Try ...

... Here's our list from the beginning: 7/25/2005 Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West 8/21/2005 Lolita 9/18/2005 Atonement 11/6/2005 Mrs. Dalloway 12/11/2005 Just a Couple of Days 1/7/2006 I Capture the Castle 2/12/2006 Pudd'nhead Wilson 3/19/200 ...

... I find quite depressing! I'm thinking about trying it again as an audio book. Anyhow, I'm still working my way through Lolita, and Right Ho, Jeeves by Wodehouse. I have to be in the right mood for each of them!

... a wide lead, which surprised me. 9. marriage (fiction): Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. 10: sex (fiction): Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. Top book overall is the subtly titled The Guide to Getting It On! by Paul Joannides. 11. loneliness: a tie: Carson McCullers' The Hea ...

... code-breaking. And I found that you can interpret it at the word and detail level, the way you would approach a work like Lolita, which is an interpretive level that I think (from reading message boards and such) that a lot of readers miss their first time and a level that, I think, will ...

Bo-peep, I bought copies of Lolita and Funny in Farsi this weekend for 50 cents apiece at a garage sale because I remembered they were wanted by more than one moocher. Both of them have already been mooched so that worked out for me though other books I have on my inventory that are on ...

I've just started Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz. I'm also reading Lolita for the first time.

Oh Boy! I found Nabokovonia on the site! I began with Lolita a few years ago, and continued on with The Enchanter...not the one listed on the side in the touchstone though! The one by Nabokov! I've read more, including Pnin and just finished Mary (the one by Nabokov), and just ...

Lolita was terrible and I couldn't finish. Anything by Hemingway usually sends me screaming. It's just too masculine. To disagree with some posters, I loved Catcher in the Rye as well as Gatsby; I've read both again and again. I also loved A Scarlet Letter though I hated it when I had ...

I'm re-reading Desire of the Everlasting Hills and re-reading Lolita

... Bornstein's Hello Cruel World and Lust for Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker which are rather more hopeful than Lolita, but no less on the edge. Have you come across Mira Soleil-Ross? She's a French-Canadian sex work activist, and she's very cool...

And I own so many DSM-IV 'support books' (quick reference, etc). :P I also enjoy all the copies of Lolita floating around this group.

Oh, I did the brackets wrong in my last post. Here, I'll try again: Lolita, by Nabokov

Tim, pleased to hear you say that Pnin is your favorite; I'm new to Nabokov, and adored Lolita (one of me all time favorite books) and Pale Fire. Seems I have more greatness waiting for me...

I'd have to say that Pale Fire is the greatest of his works that I've read so far, which include Lolita and his Lectures on Russian Literature. I'm greatly looking forward to reading more; he's a brilliant author.

My favorite is Pnin, followed closely by Lolita. (On the former, which seems very simple, see Barabtarlo Phantom of Fact.) Then Pale Fire, Ada, Speak Memory, Despair. Brian Boyd's Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years is without question my favorite biography—not of Nabok ...