Lolita is a terribly clever book, but the subject matter makes it impossible for me to rate it 5 stars. My ratings are based on my enjoyment of the book, and the frank talk of child rape made me squirm. 
 Nabokov clearly adored the sound of language, each word so carefully placed to flow into its neighbors. Humbert Humbert makes a detestable yet fascinating narrator, and Jeremy Irons' voice is PERFECTLY suited to convey this character's villainous lechery. Humbert's self-centered sexual obsession and complete disregard for a child's consent or individual desires are truly galling, and I kept hoping he'd get run over by a bus or busted by SVU's Stabler and Benson (wishful thinking, I know). 
 I'm curious about Humbert's frequent forays into speaking about himself in the third person. It felt a little like he was trying to externalize blame for his egregious actions. 
 Favorite quotes: 
 - "Nymphets do not occur in polar regions." (Somehow I found Humbert's weird racist disgust of people with black hair to be hilarious.) 
 - "He did not use a fountain pen which fact, as any psychoanalyst will tell you, meant that the patient was a repressed undinist." 
 - "I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past." 
 - "And it struck me... that I simply did not know a thing about my darling's mind, and that quite possibly, behind the awful juvenile cliches, there was in her a garden and a twilight, and a palace gate--dim and adorable regions which happened to be lucidly and absolutely forbidden to me, in my polluted rags and miserable convulsions..."