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jaredwill_'s review against another edition
4.0
I've somehow managed to avoid reading Lolita and this book makes me glad of that fact. Apparently, Nabokov wrote a number of pieces about grown men raping pre-pubescent girls. Even worse, is that Lolita is based on a real case (that Nabokov names drops in his book) and he uses this tragedy to make a buck and a name for himself.
saranies's review
3.0
I picked this up because I thought it was going to be about Sally Horner. Instead, it's half a true crime book and half a brief biography of Nabokov when he was trying to write Lolita. I do feel that stories like Sally's are overlooked in favor of the salacious focus on the criminal, but I'm not sure that I really learned anything new that I didn't read in the excerpted parts. Sally's story is heartbreaking.
sadieraereads's review against another edition
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.0
radikaliseradgroda's review against another edition
4.0
Necessary reading to better understand Lolita, but a bit of a slog at times.
caitie711's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
tense
fast-paced
4.0