Six years past since I read it and it's still fresh in my mind, this book by Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita - the "love story" about 12-year-old Dolores Haze and 40-year-old Humbert Humbert. Unbelievably inspiring and scandalous, this book got me obsessed with being a writer of stories twisted but well-structured that for the most part of 2005, I found myself walking back home from work trying to plot a story that would have the same effect. I finished nothing, of course, although I was able to cough-out a couple of chapters of a "would-be" love story about a priest and prostitute, and a narrative poem about dancing fireflies, ha ha ha!
