"I don't quite see Humbert as much Lolita's hapless puppet, as much as I view him as a delusional narcissist who at last finds himself with the perfect catalyst for acting out his fantasies -- a damaged twelve year old girl who has already been poisoned by the venom of sexual abuse, and is therefore fair game, as it were."

Hm . . . That's a fair reading, too. Guess Lolita is another novel that succeeds in the sense that it makes people discuss it . . .