My first audiobook.

I've always loved Jeremy Irons and felt that some of his roles were beneath his talents, although he is another of those famous British talents who do a lot of Shakespeare.

Nabokov is one of those writes who plays with the rhetoric of the narrator in such a fashion that--holy shit--for a lot of the book you can believe him. Humbert Humbert begins by defining the nymphet, and for some reason his deliver MIGHT convince you, though by the end of the book every girl is called a nymphet.

There are times when it's easy to hate Lolita. It's easy to feel bad for H.H.

Then, there are moments where the truth slips through and you feel ashamed of yourself--for example, when H.H. admits he pretends to fall asleep every night after which Lolita commences crying herself to sleep.

Whether or not you love/hate the story, it cannot be denied a masterpiece example of good writing. And Jeremy Irons caresses those words and sentences, makes love to them. He knows when to drag out vowels, when to growl words (although growling always makes me think of Lion King's Scar).