50 pages in, I cannot stop fucking laughing at every paragraph, the endless rationalizations of Humbert, his fantasies like the shivering child that survives a shipwreck, and the ornamental prose is so fucking good, I told a friend he has to read this solely for the prose and he thinks i'm a freak but I don't care. How did Nabokov do it?

>>24533120 (OP)
Unfortunately the average person only knows Lolita as some sort of illicit ode to paedophilia when it's actually an immensely funny and sad dive into man's ego and his relationship to the opposite sex, written in some of the neatest prose ever to grace the English language. It's not just prose either, Nabokov's verse is just as masterful. The only issue with the man is that he understood those things too well.