Lolita is an awful story, and it certainly should not be on the required reading list for high school students. It has no redeeming value that I can discern; I found the book quite sickening and I felt rather dirty. I am definitely not the better for having had to read it.
In what sense? It isn’t remotely pornographic and has some of the greatest description Truman era America ever written.
“Lolita is an awful story,...”
It is the story of a liar. Is he fabricating all this in his nasty mind, or is it real?
Is he distorting this tale or is she really a seductrous?
Is it appropriate for high school? Not in today’s world.