I was completely shocked when I was at Barnes and Noble the other day and discovered that Stanley Kubrick (who also produced The Shining and A Clockwork Orange!)made a movie about Lolita too! I think I'll watch it just to see how he interpreted the book, although I doubt it will be able to replicate it perfectly. I haven't heard whether the movie is good or not, but I figure I might as well check it out if I can find it at the library.
Anyway, while in DC I finished Lolita. Very interesting ending. I'm surprised that Lolita turned out fairly normal in the end. She seemed to grow up really fast. No longer the young, rich, spolied brat she was earlier, Lolita is now married and poor and going to have a baby all at 17. To me that's obviously really early to have a baby but the book was set almost 50 or 60 years ago so maybe that's an acceptable age? I was actually also surprised that she didn't return to Humbert. In a way, I almost felt sympathy for him. I guess the reader is supposed to feel a bond with the protagonist in some way. On the back of the novel there's a quote by Vanity Fair I think (I don't have the book with me currently) that says something along the lines of "the only true love story of our time" and in a way I completely agree with that. Just an interesting book altogether. Humbert actually killed someone... I mean he was a little crazy mentioning that gun at the end of every chapter but I thought he was too much of a coward to actually kill Quilty, the man that took Lolita away from him. I clearly mislabeled him.
I thought the quote above was a really interesting statement. I don't really know what I like about it but I think it's a very honest statement. The problem here is that I'm reading too quickly to document it all.
Reading Log Since Last Post:
Lolita: (all done)
Giovanni's Room : 55 pgs (also finished)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 15 pgs
The House on Mango Street: 75 pgs
Total pgs read since last post= 145 pgs
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