Ep 093 - Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
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The Unreliable Narrator
It's I think part of it is Nabokov's like command of the language. The prose in this book is very fun to read. Like he does things where it lapses into French and he uses um alleration. He writes in a way that's very engaging but on the other hand like I could especially in the earlier parts of the book I could read like a couple of chapters at a time before I literally had to put it down. It took me so long to get through it because Humbert Humbert is the very definition of an unreliable narrator.
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