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Originally Posted by Shaun
I've been meaning to get around to it.  your recommendation may have swayed me to buy. |
I actually bought it because I'd said something along the lines of "Ariana Grande just makes me think of Lolita" and then thought I have no idea what I'm talking about, I've never read Lolita, I just know the common cliche about sexually mature looking young girls etc (even though Ariana is like 21) but having now read Lolita I can see that the association with the name Lolita has nothing to do with the book really, maybe it came from the film (which I have yet to see)...
Humbert is attracted to pre-pubescent girls and calls them nymphets and seems to project these characteristics onto them and he treats Dolly's school girl crush on him as a sexual advance and more or less takes advantage of her while telling himself that she wanted it... it's fascinatingly well written in my opinion.