As I suspected...

Just as I was thinking - for the majority of scholars I looked at, the draw of this book is in the way Nabokov writes.  It is his command of the English language (even moreso because it was not his native language) that has people praising this book on the rooftops.  I, however, cannot share their enthusiasm.  The subject matter is too distasteful to me.  This may be simply because I have a daughter the same age, so I cannot get past the subject matter to enjoy the book for other, more literary reasons.  I do appreciate his command of the language and the way that he writes, but deserving of 10 of 11 "Top 100" lists?  I think not.