Lolita discussion

Write about value , find a quote in the book. Discussion quote and vaue in response.


Genre: explicit adult, adventure, tragic comedy.

It's like a toddler, it's pesky and difficult for the sake of being difficult.

Reminder of the jailhouse memoir, he's the victim.

Is it a love story? Or a lust story?

Threads :
Lots of references to musical categories. Marilyn Manson.
Cue quilty is humbert humbert's doppleganger.
American Beauty movie.
Smurfs. (pedophilia)
Beauty and the beast (ultimatum)
Pedobear
Baby doll fashion (gothic Lolita)

Unreliable narroator effect how I read?
Had to buy book on tape to help me get through it, he moves from scene to scene and I found my self getting frustrated with him because I would get invested into a scenario and he would change it according to his pace to manipulate me and woo me into his tale. So I had the book on tape to help my mind snap from one scene to the next almost as if I was reading on a treadmill, I even had to make the narrator read at 2x speed to make my mind accept it and move at a quick pace to follow along his manipulation.


I tried to read this book at the park by the marina and had to leave, I felt horrible reading this book with small girls running around, it forces the reader to think certain thoughts, that ought not. It forces you to want to justify your situation within the novel, during discussion we all kept making claims that it was horrible and not okay, to over compensate for our partaking in the novel.

Inception, he tricks us into his manipulation and then we came to the conclusion that might have been how Lolita felt. Accepting at first then slowly started to realized I have been raped.

What do we make of the characters?
Lolita. Pet name, nymphet version
Dolly younger smarter version a bit older tweenager.
Dolores older woman fully cognizant.
Humber humbert,