Order this, it’s masterful. I still can’t believe that English wasn’t Vladimir Nabokov’s native language. Lolita is amusing, perverse, genius, and one of the top-100 most frequently banned or challenged books in the U.S. If you haven’t read it yet, please do. It will make you smarter. Some excerpts: ” She was musical and apple-sweet … Lola the bobby-soxer, devouring her immemorial fruit, singing through its juice … and every movement she made, every shuffle and ripple, helped me to conceal and to improve the secret system of tactile correspondence between beast and beauty–between my gagged, bursting beast and the beauty of her dimpled body in its innocent cotton frock.” “If a violin string can ache, then I was that string.” “There was still that stream of pale moths siphoned out of the night by my headlights.”