TheAmpersand: What absolutely, positively every novel about the relationship between a too-old person and a too-young person desires to be. Exquisitely written, sharply observed, and deeply felt, it's one of the best novels ever written. Nabokov's a writer of such talent that he takes a story that could have been merely pornographic and makes it about the deepest, saddest sort of love. One of its translators, in Vanity Fair called it "the only convincing love story of our century." It's probably true.… (más)

sanddancer: Both are unflinching looks at the darker side of sexuality.

WinterFox: Both books do a gender stereotype flip to look at female predators; Any Man with a female serial rapist, Tampa with a middle-school teacher sexually obsessed with teenage boys.

ligature: A compelling but brutal story with horrible characters.