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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J. K. Rowling
22/8/11
Pages: 334
Pages: 334
Bambie's rating:
658
8.1
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Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
7/5/11 - 14/5/11
Pages: 336
Since I had watch the both Lolita movies (Kubrick's and Lyne's) I thought I really had to read it also. The spelling of the book is really beautiful and poetic, and I really like that. There's so many funny, interesting and insightful details in Lolita that it's really pleasant and entertaining book to read.
I guess many people knows what Lolita is about. Well I'm going to tell it anyway: Middle-aged Humbert Humbert, becomes obsessed and sexually involved with a 12-year-old girl named Dolores Haze aka Lolita. Unfortunately some people think Lolita is a pornographic and obscene book. People who want read Lolita for some erotic, accurately described love moments, you will be disappointed. It's not like that at all. Lolita is really subtly and delicately written. (Actually in the one I borrowed from library was a picture of naked girl showering on the cover and it said An Erotic Literature Classic. No wonder why people get wrong conclusions)
Lolita for impact never at any point defend pedophilia, and what I remember Humbert was disgusted with himself, because of the things he dreamed, planned and actually did (I may mix this fact to Vladimir Nabokov's other novel(la), The Enchanter, because in that, the protagonist was definitely disgusted with himself.)
Overall I really liked this book. The story is really interesting, it's excellently written and the characters are great, especially contradictory Dolores Haze who is really intriguing and really annoying character at the same time. I also love the fact that she has so many nicknames.
Pages: 336
Since I had watch the both Lolita movies (Kubrick's and Lyne's) I thought I really had to read it also. The spelling of the book is really beautiful and poetic, and I really like that. There's so many funny, interesting and insightful details in Lolita that it's really pleasant and entertaining book to read.
I guess many people knows what Lolita is about. Well I'm going to tell it anyway: Middle-aged Humbert Humbert, becomes obsessed and sexually involved with a 12-year-old girl named Dolores Haze aka Lolita. Unfortunately some people think Lolita is a pornographic and obscene book. People who want read Lolita for some erotic, accurately described love moments, you will be disappointed. It's not like that at all. Lolita is really subtly and delicately written. (Actually in the one I borrowed from library was a picture of naked girl showering on the cover and it said An Erotic Literature Classic. No wonder why people get wrong conclusions)
Lolita for impact never at any point defend pedophilia, and what I remember Humbert was disgusted with himself, because of the things he dreamed, planned and actually did (I may mix this fact to Vladimir Nabokov's other novel(la), The Enchanter, because in that, the protagonist was definitely disgusted with himself.)
Overall I really liked this book. The story is really interesting, it's excellently written and the characters are great, especially contradictory Dolores Haze who is really intriguing and really annoying character at the same time. I also love the fact that she has so many nicknames.
Bambie's rating:
10
7.3
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The Enchanter - Vladimir Nabokov
18/4/11
Pages: 128
I'm not sure why I read this. My intention was to read Lolita, and this is sort of Lolita's babysister and indeed, really baby one, under 100 pages. To be sure, I don't regret reading this, it was a good novel, or novella actually.
Pages: 128
I'm not sure why I read this. My intention was to read Lolita, and this is sort of Lolita's babysister and indeed, really baby one, under 100 pages. To be sure, I don't regret reading this, it was a good novel, or novella actually.
Bambie's rating:
507
8.1
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A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
5/4/11
Pages 231
I loooove Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange, so I thought I should read the book also. I suppose it would have been even better reading experience, if I'd had read it before seeing the movie, 'cause as for me it always is, however I really liked the book.
Pages 231
I loooove Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange, so I thought I should read the book also. I suppose it would have been even better reading experience, if I'd had read it before seeing the movie, 'cause as for me it always is, however I really liked the book.
Bambie's rating:
339
7.3
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The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Pages: 408
It's not the best novel I have read, yet a good one. It's not embellishing anything, and I really like that.
It's not the best novel I have read, yet a good one. It's not embellishing anything, and I really like that.
Bambie's rating:
489
8
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Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
27/2/11
Pages: 598 (pocket book)
I kinda fell in love with Heathcliff, although he was cruel and inhuman (ok, I guess that's why he was so attractive...). I loved the speedy atmosphere, which was kinda typical to Wuthering Heights's plot. It process serious subjects in really funny and spellbinding way (or it is just me).
Pages: 598 (pocket book)
I kinda fell in love with Heathcliff, although he was cruel and inhuman (ok, I guess that's why he was so attractive...). I loved the speedy atmosphere, which was kinda typical to Wuthering Heights's plot. It process serious subjects in really funny and spellbinding way (or it is just me).
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