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Originally Posted by Molecules
re Lolita - if anybody hasn't please, please see the Stanley Kubrick film adaptation from the sixties. It retains all that stuff you think they'd have been required to leave out in those days. well most of it. plus it has James Mason in it (i.e. actor with the best speaking voice to ever grace the earth with it's weirdness)
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I've been trying to psyche myself up to see it for a long time but I'm not very hopeful it'll be any good. Love the book.
OT: I've just started
Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses...the first 10 pages is probably one of the most spectacular openings I've ever read.
I'm also on issue 13 of
Y - The last man, comic book (or graphic novel, dunno much about these things). It's gripping. I might just start downloading more comics...