LOLITA (Vladimir Nabokov) - July 26/08

Well, it took me over six months to finally finish this virtually unreadable monstrosity. Nabokov is so in love with his own voice and his ability to craft absurdly flowery sentences, that he infuses the majority of the novel with a nigh interminable vibe. And while there are a few interesting passages here and there, Lolita is primarily the kind of book one struggles to read (I glazed over most of the paragraphs). Awful. Just awful. .* out of ****