Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Review

This book is seriously messed up in a serious way! 

I know what this book is offers, pedophile, but I never intrigued to picked this book.

This is my first time reading Lolita only because one of the Korean Idol accused to have a photoshoot with Lolita theme recently and it boils the anger of K-netizen much. My curiosity perks, okay, maybe I need to know what's exactly going on with this Lolita child before I judge about all of this controversial stuff.

The review below contains spoiler!!

Humbert Humber was really a sick old man who loved a girl-child, a child who's around nine to fourteen years old. He tried to manage his preferences down by marrying a twenty-nine years old woman. But when his wife cheated on him, he divorced her and went to America.There, Humbert stayed at Charlotte Haze's house only because she has a beautiful twelve years old daughter, Lolita. Humbert was so crazy about her even when Mrs. Haze offered to tie them in the marriage, he agreed just to have Lolita around him. This is just so wrong!

Time passed, Mrs. Haze finally discovered that her husband had an ill feeling toward her daughter but immediately died because of a car accident. 

Over the next two years, he has this sick relationship with Lolita, as a father-daughter as well as a lover.

Lolita is told from Humbert perspective. He wrote this book or journal from his last days in his cell. And he wrote as if we are all his jury.

From the beginning part of this book, we already discovered that he was not the guy we can trust. And I really questioned everything in this book.

Is Lolita really the naughty girl who asks to kiss him in the first place?

Is Lolita really the one who seduced him in the first night at the Hotel? 

Or it just Humbert's convenience way to persuade us that he was not a brute man after all?

We really don't know.

I can't bring myself to finish this book so I'm not going to rate this book at least for now. Maybe I will pick it up again later because there are so many questions lay in this book. But for now, no. No, I can't wrap my brain around this story. 

Rating N/A for now

Originally posted on my Goodreads page, December 29, 2016