Lolita is a deeply disturbing read. Not because there is any disgusting descriptions of the sexual escapades of 30-something year old Humbert Humbert and 12/13/14 year old Delores Haze, but because of the subject matter. This book is beautifully written, full of insinuations and metaphors. Humbert's viewpoint casts a rose-tinted glow on a pedophile's illicit desires, impluses and actions towards his teenage step-daughter. I found this book at times hard to follow, as Humbert and Dolly travel place-to-place, the introduction of new characters does get lost on me and the sheer amount of descriptive language piled into this novel can cause confusion regarding what is actually happening in the story. But, there's no denying that this is an impressive feat of literature that casts a dreamy light (thanks to the unreliable narrator himself) on a monster's predilections.