50th Anniversary of "Lolita"

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Author Message   Chrishayden "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Chrishayden Post Number: 1481 Registered: 03-2004 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) Posted on Saturday, October 01, 2005 - 10:51 am:        http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4846479 The other night on a local radio station they read excerpts from this book. I realized I have never read it all the way through--attracted to it at first by its racy reputation I was put off by all the stodgy, high falutin writing-- But it still strikes me that this is a scuzzy story any way you slice it with little to redeem it--at least stuff like "Naked Lunch" and "Tropic of Cancer" unloaded on society as a whole.   Thumper "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Thumper Post Number: 436 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) Posted on Monday, October 03, 2005 - 08:03 am:        Hello Chris, I am in total disagreement with you. I loved the writing. As a matter of fact it was the writing that kept me reading the book when I was totally turned off by the subject matter. That's what made the book so extraordinary.