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Baby Love is a tacky little enterprise about a scheming English teen-ager named Luci (Linda Hayden). An unhappy and uninteresting hybrid of Lilith and Lolita, Luci is first seen putting on an exhibition of osculation for her delighted classmates, and things deteriorate-rather rapidly-from there. She comes home from school one day to discover that Mum (Diana Dors) has done herself in. Luci goes off to stay with one of Mum's old lovers (Keith Barren), a successful doctor whose opulent standard of living suggests that socialized medicine in Britain has not put much of a dent...
...THIS BOOK is about love, not sex," said the blurbs for Lolita. A number of disappointed readers found this to be true: Lolita's Humbert Humbert is a sad aging man who needs love, but wants it only from little girls. Nowadays the blurbs have changed, and The Killing of Sister George is enthusaistically described as "the most explicit and sensational of flock of films on lesbianism." Perhaps. Sister George is about love too--aside from the one scene that has given it its notoriety and its major flaw...
...divorced each year, and many will seek partners younger than their former wives. Until now, an implicit criticism has always been that such marriages somehow violate the natural order; the common reaction has been that the marriages are disreputably "Freudian," or that the husband is some sort of Lolita-chasing Humbert. As such marriages increase in visibility, however, it will probably become clear that neither reaction is necessarily just. There are obvious perils. Yet these should perhaps be balanced against the need for emotional renewals, a sense of possibility and experiment rather than mere resignation to the inevitable. A maxim...
...Nakobov is best when his characters bear the same watermark as himself. Some of his "made-up" characters are good, but they cannot compare to the boy in "First Love," the aging lover in "Spring in Fialta," Pnin, or Humbert Humbert of Lolita, all of whom clearly resemble the author. Lolita, that beautiful and hilarious love story, is still his greatest novel...
...washed up, or at least he has exhausted this particular vein, but Nakobov is now at the height of his powers. One reviewer, in The New York Times, said that his best work is still to come. I have the same feeling, but if he never writes another word, Lolita will be enough