Lolita (Spanish Edition), (Paperback)

from alana_leigh

"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. "She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly...

from Scriptopus

For once it's easy to choose Goodreads' 5-star rating for a book, given that the rollover reminds us this means 'it was amazing' rather than the 4-star 'I really liked it.' Lolita was amazing. I'm not sure I really liked it. I'm very glad I read it. I doubt I'll ever read it again. I suppose the ...

from RebeccaAnn

I think this is the best book I've read since joining LT. Stylistically, it's amazing. I've never read an author with such a mastery of the English language. Thematically, it's haunting and disturbing, yet also tragic. No character is likeable, yet you feel and cry and bleed for them all. Is it d...

from mercedesbundarra

'Lolita' is like a spoken song - it is beautiful; almost lyrical in it's language. It is one of my all-time favourite books - I can read it over and over again. The most astounding fact about the author, Vladimir Nabokov, is that English is his second language, and he wrote his first nine novels ...

from RebeccaAnn

I think this is the best book I've read since joining LT. Stylistically, it's amazing. I've never read an author with such a mastery of the English language. Thematically, it's haunting and disturbing, yet also tragic. No character is likeable, yet you feel and cry and bleed for them all. Is it d...