OK I'll kick off - I didn't find this an easy read, mainly because I don't really like Nabokov's style - a bit too flowery for my taste. I don't see either Humbert or Lolita as 'victims'. He is immoral and she is amoral. Neither do I see him as a predatory paedophile, Lolita knows exactly what she's doing and being underage merely puts the law on her side and he is just pathetic and weak. I'm not condoning his behaviour - but I can absolutely understand why a lonely, unfulfilled middle-aged man might find himself in this situation.
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