She's the loudest one out of all of those, too. Her name would be Basma or Hande. Dammit, why is she so pretty and makes such cute facial expressions?
I can understand why people wouldn't like it, but IMHO you can safely ignore any claim that it's pro-pedophilia or an idealised love story or what have you.
Yeah, some parts of Lolita and how people react to it have always puzzled me, like this one dumbass girl in a class I had this summer who seemed to think it was an honest to god love story (!) and my reaction was thinking that she should probably be kept away from children.
I could possibly agree to describe it as an incredibly dysfunctional, messed up and, most importantly, one-sided love story, but certainly not the kind of idealised love story found in, say, the Twilight saga.
True, but in this case the girl who said this referred to it as something to the effect of "pure love" which made me wonder what she was smoking. I wrote about it when it happened.
Oh, I didn't remember that entry. Thanks for the link!
Yeah, that's definitely missing the point by a mile. I wouldn't even call it a love story in any sense of the word if it wasn't for the character development that Humbert, in spite of everything, goes through (as in, he starts off planning to impregnate Dolores with a Lolita II and ends up being ready to spend the rest of his life with her. Assuming he didn't make that part up completely).
I do hope most people thinking it promotes pedophilia simply haven't read the thing, but then again, a disturbing number of people seem to have.
What line is that? *doesn't have the novel in handy* If we're talking favourite opening lines, I myself am terribly fond of "Marley was dead: to begin with" from A Christmas Carol.
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I've always been meaning to read Lolita, but I hear such mixed reactions about it (understandably so, of course).
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I can understand why people wouldn't like it, but IMHO you can safely ignore any claim that it's pro-pedophilia or an idealised love story or what have you.
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Yeah, that's definitely missing the point by a mile. I wouldn't even call it a love story in any sense of the word if it wasn't for the character development that Humbert, in spite of everything, goes through (as in, he starts off planning to impregnate Dolores with a Lolita II and ends up being ready to spend the rest of his life with her. Assuming he didn't make that part up completely).
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What line is that? *doesn't have the novel in handy*
If we're talking favourite opening lines, I myself am terribly fond of "Marley was dead: to begin with" from A Christmas Carol.
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