answer:I was going to Catholic school when the book was published and the Pope or whoever is in charge put it on the condemned list. That being the case made it imperative that I find a copy. I found one, read it and was bored. In the mid fifties I was in grade school and Catholic and conservative theology determined what ended up in the public libraries and in some respects on the bookshelves of retail shops. Of course it was easy to shock us. The most shock books I read were written by Robert Heinlein. I like them much more than Lolita.