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> _“The fact that this book is about a grown adult man lusting after a 12-year-old girl should be justification enough for some not to read it, but the general consensus surrounding ’s enduring popularity is that ’s writing is beautiful; it’s just the premise that’s disturbing. I don’t know about you, but no amount of beautiful prose should be enough to get over a premise as problematic as that of Lolita.”_

Absurd and childish. Then, don't read _anything_ involving murder or war — those are worse deeds than sexual abuse (even of a child).

Out of the window goes half the literary canon, some of the best humanity had produced.

Be a grown-up and read about difficult subjects, stories with nuance, ambiguity, shades of grey. It's _fiction_, after all. You may learn a thing or two.

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