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Middle school teacher in Florida --Celeste Price --26 year old sociopathic protagonist --married to a police officer likes teenage boys. In particular, one 14-year-old boy. From the outside, she looks perfect but on the inside, she is a deeply twisted character. Of course, if you’re familiar with Nabokov’s Lolita, then this whole story will be very familiar to you. But don't mistake this for another Lolita from a female sexual predator's point of view. Alissa Nutting maybe good but her writing doesn't even come close to meriting a comparison with Nabokov's prose. And Celeste Price makes Humbert Humbert look like a fine gentleman deserving of a special award for decency instead of jail time. Teenage Euthanasia Renewed for Season 2 at Adult Swim". MovieWeb. 2022-04-03 . Retrieved 2023-07-05.

What’s interesting is Heller’s thought-provoking commentary on human nature. Uniquely, Notes on a Scandal is narrated by a third party to the affair, Sheba’s best friend Barbara. In this gender-reversed version of Lolita, we are privy to Molest's I mean Celeste's lurid fantasies which are a far more graphic, female version of Humbert Humbert's. We learn that her marriage is a misery and all she longs for is sex with pubescent teenagers.I realized that if the genders were reversed or if the victims were younger than teenagers, I would have had a very different experience when reading this book. What I'm certainly saying, though, is that I was rooting for her and hated everyone who worked against her.

She's draped Nabokov over a piece of cleverly written, character-driven erotica. But she's not fooling me! This isn't serious literature. It's a compelling, tantalising, controversial, very readable piece of mutton.This book has excellent pacing, not too fast, not too slow, which I liked because it gave the reader lots of time for the barbarity of Celeste’s thoughts and actions to sink in.

i do think this is a controversial novel, but it is brilliantly written. and you can get all emotional and "think of teh children," on it, but that's not really useful.this is something that happens, and i would rather not live in a cave, wearing blinders, reading nicholas sparks. i wanna be informed. Okay kids, get ready to hate me because I freakin’ LOVED Tampa. Please, don’t misunderstand – I agree that the subject matter is 100% cringe-inducing. Hell, I remember expressing my amore for this beautiful little werewolf:

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This book held all the evil in the world. It is from the mind of a psychopath. It's terrifying and sad how a little boy's life was ruined. The raw truths were painful. These were all the good points. I am still struggling to understand what this book made me feel or whether it left any impression on me at all.

She had an obsession with preserving youth. She constantly brought up how in, in the future, her body will lose its beauty. And that her sexuality will be more difficult to pursue. THIS READER THOUGHT THAT SEXUAL PREDATOR CELESTE PRICE WAS A FAR MORE ENGAGING AND INSPIRING TEACHER THAN MOST OF THE TEACHERS HE HAD THE MISFORTUNE OF EXPERIENCING IN HIS YOUTH I may not care about youth and beauty as much as others, but I know many who do, and they could easily be her.Believe me, I can easily understand all the negative reactions to this book but I can't help but find it absolutely fascinating. The book made me feel dirtier than the floor of a porno theater but it was compulsively readable. It simultaneously made me wish I had a Playboy centerfold for a teacher in eighth grade and made me glad I didn't. I found reading Lolita to be a thoroughly uncomfortable experience though I can definitely appreciate its literary merits. Nabokov’s unreliable narrator has a way with words and the prose in Lolita is beautiful and in sharp contrast to the content it describes.