>>22862350It's really a book like any other piece of media about criminals. People can get behind someone who's a drug dealer or a murderer, but make it about a pedophile, and suddenly they're reminded why crime is bad.
He really is easy to sympathize with, if you can look past the obvious thing. And all the book's romantic language is enough to make someone swoon. I've quoted Lolita to an ex before, and they just got starry-eyed.
