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Banned Books: Lolita
Examiner ^ | September 8, 2010 | Martha

Posted on 09/08/2010 9:23:51 AM PDT by usalady

Vladimir Nabokov's book about the affair between a twelve-year-old girl and a middle-aged man was banned because it was considered pornography

(Excerpt) Read more at suite101.com ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: bannedauthors; bannedbooks; bannedfiction; blogflogger; sexualnovels
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To: usalady

This will require an under-aged bunny with an adult pancake on its head.


21 posted on 09/08/2010 9:47:48 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: DEADROCK
Nabokov was a Lepidopteran.

I don't care if he's a SCIENTOLOGIST! He does a great show on Fox!

Oh, wait.. wrong thread.

22 posted on 09/08/2010 9:49:17 AM PDT by humblegunner (Pablo is very wily)
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To: usalady

“This girl’s an open page
Book marking - she’s so close now
This girl is half his age...
Temptation, frustration
So bad it makes him cry
Wet bus stop, she’s waiting
His car is warm and dry...

“Its no use, he sees her
He starts to shake and cough
Just like the old man in
That book by Nabakov”

—The Police, Don’t Stand So Close To Me


23 posted on 09/08/2010 9:49:41 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: usalady

People have longed told me it a great novel. I have only seen the Kubrick film; and though it contains a great performance by James Mason, the story creeps me out.


24 posted on 09/08/2010 10:01:54 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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To: usalady

It’s an excellent book. It is only superficially a story about a pedophile and his victim. The subtext is much deeper, and Nabokov’s arguments are important. Conservatives should agree with him, while leftists should be appalled and disturbed.


25 posted on 09/08/2010 10:12:49 AM PDT by oblomov
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To: raccoonradio

Took me years to figure out that reference.


26 posted on 09/08/2010 10:14:28 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Sequoyah101

Casting an aging, overweight Shelly Winters as the mother was a master stroke. She was a great actress and made a complete fool of herself over James Mason and played the part to a T.


27 posted on 09/08/2010 10:15:31 AM PDT by calex59
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To: oblomov

Indeed. Nabokov writes distinctly about control, about those who hold and wield power over others. Disturbed power, insecure and dangerous power. The right should consider him not as some pornographer, which is wholely unjust, but as an intellectual who had first-hand experience with the evil that is the left.

Read more deeply people.


28 posted on 09/08/2010 10:23:22 AM PDT by februus
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To: dfwgator

Never read the book but had heard of it. I do remember someone being referred to as “the Long Island Lolita”
(Amy Fisher?)


29 posted on 09/08/2010 10:29:14 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: februus

Nabokov was a great anti-Communist....

&&&
So, I guess that makes it okay for him to glorify pedophilia.


30 posted on 09/08/2010 10:37:01 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
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To: februus

Not just that, but he used the pedophiliac relationship as a metaphor for the corruption of American culture by European intellectuals. It addressed the clash of modernism and postmodernism with more verve than any other book I’ve read.


31 posted on 09/08/2010 10:38:46 AM PDT by oblomov
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To: usalady

Books are usually banned by people who don’t know how to read.


32 posted on 09/08/2010 10:50:41 AM PDT by Julia H. (This tagline for rent--Only $999.99/month!)
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To: Sequoyah101

I thought the re-make with Jeremy Irons was great .


33 posted on 09/08/2010 2:38:49 PM PDT by sushiman
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To: Nonstatist; usalady; humblegunner; Eaker; Vendome; shibumi; Old Lady; Salamander; Allegra; 50mm
Nasty stuff..What’s your point?

Good question indeed. What is her point in ANY of her myriad one-sentence, hit and run threads? This time, she can't even get the name of the blog correct. It says Examiner blog, but takes you to a book sales site.

And she never, ever gives the courtesy of a single reply.

Hmmmm. Couldn't be a BLOG-FLOGGER, could she?

34 posted on 09/08/2010 2:45:39 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido; humblegunner
"Hmmmm. Couldn't be a BLOG-FLOGGER, could she?"

No that's a different kind of perversion from Pederast/Porno.

Kinky and fun, but different. (And it's hard to get people who will consent to having their blogs flogged.)
35 posted on 09/08/2010 2:52:06 PM PDT by shibumi (Pablo is Miley- wily, clever and detractive as all get out!)
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To: Larry Lucido

Weird....


36 posted on 09/08/2010 3:34:32 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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