Finished: Lolita (Nabokov). Such gripping writing dedicated to 309 pages of a pedophile's lament. What a travesty! Why is this book about a pedophile's obsession with and conquering of a twelve year old girl at the top of everyone's reading lists?? Not just the critics, or other authors...but even the "reader's top 100" list puts Lolita in the top ten books. Why?? I finally made myself read it and it took me several days because I kept having to put it down. What a shame that someone who can write quite well would squander his talents on such obscenity. Nothing or no one will make me feel one iota of sympathy or understanding towards the pedophile in the book. Ugh...I need to read something totally different to cleanse this taste from my mind.