'Oh Lolita, you are my girl, as Vee was Poe's and Bea Dante's, and what little girl would not like to swirl in a circular skirt and scanties?' (pg 120)Well, I think that sentence sums up Lolita quite well. And just for you curious folk out there, 'scanties' are underpants. Nice. The only thing I really knew about this book was it was about some old guy (Humbert Humbert) who fell in love with a young girl, Lolita.
Well, no surprises here - Nabokov is a very beautiful and convincing writer. Throughout the earlier stages of the book, you actually feel slightly sorry for Humbert as he tries his very best to keep his behaviour around Lolita above board. However, as the book pushes on, Humbert loses his cool a little bit and just turns out to be slightly intense (and a little bit creepy). Lolita has a fair bit of attitude too, which I wasn't expecting either.
Not for the faint hearted. But you gotta give Nabokov props for putting it out there
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