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Thursday, December 22, 2005 12:00 AM

Reading "Lolita" in Alabama

Fifty years after its publication, and 20 after my first reading, Nabokov's masterpiece is still dangerous -- but not for the reasons you might think.
By Allen Barra

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  • Thursday, December 22, 2005 05:40 PM

    I thought it was funny...

    Well crappity crap crap. I read Lolita for the first time in my mid twenties and thought it was really twisted, beautiful and hi-larious. Is that wrong? Am I twisted because I enjoyed the comedy? I better read it again with the sugested reference material.

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