It took me a long time to finish this book. I found it a very difficult read. Not so much because of the subject: the book is written in the first person thus giving a fascinating insight into the distorted mind of the main character, Humbert; but because of the narrative style of this same Humbert.

Lolita will make you smile, cry, shudder, will make your skin crawl and leave a sour taste in your mouth but you can’t stay indifferent to it. If the key to dealing with criminals is to understand how their brain works, then Nabokov did a brilliant job in exploring the thought process of a pedophile.