A review by azaan
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

How insane do you have to be to write such a sordidly disgusting, fascinating, perverted, filthy, beautifully life-altering book? Foaming at the mouth with curses unsaid, yet eating up the words— such a maddeningly frustrating, dark, realistic, fictional work of art is Lolita.  Breaking at the bounds and bending the morals, flowery words and ignorant manipulation, drunk love and clear-sighted criminal lust, the realisation, the realisation and the pathetic puddle of his life and all his wrongs, all his crimes, all that his lousy hands tainted; foolish yet knowing, cunning yet naive; the kind of wan shadow that will haunt you for the rest of your time. There is a reason this is considered one of the classics.

And this is the only immortality that you and I may share, my Lolita.