"Pale Fire" is so good.

It's true. Humbert can quickly make you forget that he's a monster because of how sad, pathetic, charming, and erudite he is. It's a work of genius.

Having synesthesia probably helps.

It's one of my favorite novels of all time, but I never once found it sexy or titillating. Because I am not gross and I has reading comprehension good.

Even worse.

I am A-OK with her not including any of those things.

It's honestly one of my very favorite novels of all time despite the subject matter.

I honestly knew nothing about the Rwandan connection, but thank you for sharing that. It's something I want to learn more about.

To be fair, she's like 24. How much do you think she's read 1980s/1990s celebrity gossip?

Except that she didn't. They were never married.

See also: Liz Taylor and Richard Burton

His "sister" was actually his bio mother and his "mother" was his grandmother. He didn't find out until they'd both died of cancer.

LOL at the irony of calling someone a "judgmental cracker".

That was basically the relationship I was in from age 18-20.

I can appreciate that Francis seems to be relatively progressive and compassionate compared to a lot of his predecessors, but I can't really be bowled over until he does something about that whole "protecting child predators" thing his organization does.

I love how her husband said that he crushed on her when she was on the Cosby Show and got starstruck when he met her.

Gandhi was also a foaming-at-the-mouth racist who published a newspaper full of anti-African propaganda. There were a LOT of screwed up things in his history.

It's much easier to paint an unusual-looking-and-behaving "weirdo" like Michael Jackson (who was already a social outcast and a punchline) as an abusive deviant than tv's favorite dad!

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas.

Loving it because it's amusing is not the same as approving of his behavior or personality. Just like how I can read a novel with an unlikable narrator and still enjoy it.