This was one of the first books I read when I wanted to get into 'advanced reading' on my own time when I was young. One thing to note is that it really isn't a love story at all, Dolores herself is rarely ever present and when she is she doesn't get many lines. It's sort of the insanely socially retarded manifesto of Humbert with the guise of being, from his perspective, a story of true love, unfettered by society and developed womanhood (which is gross, as he explains in the beginning).

If you expected loli erotica going into it, you won't get it. There's a brief few sentences describing Dolores' body before and after the main event (SEX!!!!!), I recall her ass is very round and pale, but the event itself is never described.

The main part of HH's character is the fact that he was never actually a lolikon and his love for lolis was forced. He just hates women and, by extension, the rest of the world for accepting women as they are (he says shrinks even suspected he was gay at one point ), while also having an obsession with a childhood sweetheart and the perfect out-of-a-novel romance not realizing such a thing was an imperfect memory. He blames everyone else for the world being this way, when truly he just hasn't made any attempt to mature in 30 years.

It's like Catcher in the Rye but the protagonist's age is doubled and he fucks a kid instead of taking her to a carnival or whatever. I think every Heyurian should read both, they're quite apt!