Lolita

I read this as a teenager but was way more disturbed reading it in my late 30's.  Humbert Humbert's obsession with a twelve-year-old girl is very unsettling.  After marrying and driving the mother to her death, the professor has a cross country trip with her daughter Lolita.  I almost quit this book, put it aside, and read the rest later.  Humbert has to be one of literature's most unreliable narrators.  He thinks that Lolita is seducing him. However, are two clear truths that come out later when she complains about the rape, and later when she says as an adult that he wrecked her life. Truman Capote (who was by the way very talented) said that Nabokov's only good book was Lolita.  I'm reading another so I know he was wrong.  I've heard Truman Capote put down other writers.  He strikes me as a very jealous man especially when it came to his friend Harper Lee.  Anyway, the Kubrick movie was ok.    If you want a happy read this definitely isn't it.