>>Was anyone else disappointed by Lolita?
No, it is actually a good book. I think the distance of time from when it was written has blunted it's impact and modern readers ignorance of the era of it was written.
>>It is a huge slap in the face to 1950's manufactured idealism.
There are a huge number of things the HH and Dot do that would bring horror to the Normies everything from the Car trip and motel stays to Dot consuming endless amounts of magazines were the corporate manufactured "Ideals" Family Car trips ( pushed by GM ) to motels to local sights etc. Liberal Magazine Publishers like Atlantic Monthly Sophisticated , intelligent and well informed by reading all the magazines, mean while airheaded Dot does the same and she is an Airhead. An she has to read Dunken Hinds column ( Gorden Ramses of the day ) to know where to eat !!
It would be like in 2008 while everyone gushed over Facebook and the New Iphone you wrote a book where a Pedo loves Facebook to keep tabs of his Nieces "growth" and Reddit because they were smart , the Iphone for its camera and long battery for hiding in the girls locker room people would lose their spaghetti reading that .
>>It is a Romantic novel in the way of "Idealism" rather than love.
>>HH is a truly unreliable narrator.
Unreliable, firstly his retelling to make himself seem smarter and better than everyone one else , kind of like a M'lady fedora wearer thinking he is sauve and, saying how "everyone clapped" at the end of his story . And also his ( HH ) speeches about Nymphets and Loltia reminded me of Alcoholics justifying their drinking " No no dear reader I am sophisticated drinker , a Writer , I am a wine connoisseur." Justifying why they're in the bag at 11 in the morning .
>Its Romantic.
He finally got the Lolita he so idealized and he despises her . Not even the sex is "remarkable" on in that he complains of having to bribe her before hand and her crying and being withdrawn after .
And the final blow after his "fall" ( losing dot ) and recovery , that she wasn't even a "nymphet" - she had all ready lost her virginity to the movie producer .. and it was his suggestion to be coquettish to HH and go on the car trip . So in the end nothing was true .
