I’m more worried that they would have liked it too much or identified with the protagonists.

True, most of the gross takes of Lolita are from people who have never read the book.

I do think a lot of people struggle with not identifying with unreliable narrators though.

American Psycho, Catcher in the Rye, A Clockwork Orange.

I think with Lolita (kind of like Fight Club, American Psycho, and A Clockwork Orange) I’d pay less attention to the rating than what their thinking was around the book. Or if they were a big fan or just thought it was a well-written book that they’ll never read again.

Catcher in the Rye but usually it means they haven’t read a book since high school and aren’t being upfront about it.

There can never be too many shoutouts to Master and Margarita!

I read Anna Karenina as my first foray into Russian literature, and let me tell you, Bulgakov kept me in the game as Tolstoy was taking me out.

Keep in mind that ~20% of Americans are functionally illiterate. So I think if you took the amount of adults that can read, that would change the numbers.

Because people enjoy the journey from hating each other to having a happily ever after. There’s a lot of drama, it’s fun to see how it eventually all gets worked out.