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A book that I am currently reading, (along with "Wintergirls") is a book called "Lolita" by Vladmir Nabokov. It is, so I've been told, a classic, and an important book of last century, although it is banned in a few places. The book is narrated by the main character, Humbert Humbert, in first person. Humbert is a pedophile, but he's not out raping or molesting or destroying the young girls that he likes, he instead calls the girls, age 9-14, his little "nymphettes", and watches them, seemingly harmlessly, captivated by them and respecting their boundaries. However, the story follows Humberts life, in which he was never attracted to the women of appropriate age ever since his first love died of tuberculosis after a summer fling, which he seems to blame his attraction to the innocent on. Because of this, throughout his life, when he can he leans towards women who look young, petite and awfully youthful for their age such as his ex-wife was. Otherwise, coincidentally  he is a teacher. Humbert, after a long series of events ends up renting part of a widows house, where she lives with her young daughter. That's where Humbert meets 12 year old Dolores, or as he calls her, Lolita. This book contains many themes, however a theme of reoccurring rebellion to society's ideas of acceptable age difference in relationships always competes with Humbert's mindset, as his preferred age for is partners is inappropriate, and also, there is in a way, revolution as another reoccurring theme, in the way that Humbert doesn't want what he is "supposed to" want in age, sneaking by the public eye.