Thursday, June 18, 2009

Books not to read when you are a mummy #1

Lolita

I felt it was something I should read and had never got round to. It was on special offer at the bookshop so I grabbed a copy. After all, I am a liberally minded sort, have read how it is a much misunderstood volume, and I really liked American Psycho so am not usually prone to squeamishness.

I got 60 pages in, felt physically sick, and decided to leave reading it until Eve is much older. Like when she is aged 18.

2 comments:

LottieP said...

It's an incredible book! Particularly considering he was writing in one of his second languages (the first being Russian). Clever and much misunderstood, as you say.

Mummy said...

I accept that is is well written, and I rather like Nabakov in any other guise.

A colleague told me that the whole point of it is that is it uncomfortable, but it is just too uncomfortable to read as the mother of a girl.