It's too bad that this is Nabokov's best known novel. In my opinion Pale Fire is actually much better, and deserves to be known more. Lolita is also a very good book, but one hose reputation precedes it. It has become that one book that is about pedophilia, instead of the book that brings you face to face with a monster, so close that you can feel his breath and almost understand him even as you despise him. The way Nabokov frames this book is fascinating, and should be discussed much more than the subject matter. It's not just a simple story lionizing pedophilia, as it seems society thinks it is, instead it's more like seeing a shark swiftly swim by you in murky waters.