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which is the most unique/different book you ever read?
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I think that would probably be Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, although I haven't finished it.
I've never read anything quite as horrible or with a unreliable narrator that justifies his behaviour this hard. The story keeps getting worse too. There's no clear hope for a long stretch.
If you don't know the narrator, Humbert Humbert, is the pedophile who goes after the twelve year old Dolores Haze, whom he calls Lolita.
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He grooms her, gets her mom killed, and basically traffics her around.Can be read here: https://online.fliphtml5.com/unwsfj/Lolita---Vladimir-Nabokov/
Its a pretty dark book. Added to my tbr.