Sunday, June 22, 2008

'Lolita'

It is funny how fundamentalists freak out about books and movies.

Growing up in the United States, the "banned book list" is more popular than 84 percent of the books on the list. The fundamentalists should just get rid of the list and many of these books wouldn't see the light of day.

"Lolita" by Vlad Nabokov is on that list. Mainly (well, wholly) because it's about a pedophile who gets mixed up with a steamy nymphette, who works him for junk as much as he works her for lovin'.

In actuality, the book is banned because of the idea of "consensual" sex with 12 year old. The books vaguely references actual sex. Definitely no details (which was a bummer [kidding]) and it's relatively a harmless book about a total creep and a young slut.

People should spend more title battling "Catcher in the Rye," about a teenager who's moody, angry and doesn't know what he wants out of life. Where does that come from?

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