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There is brilliance in madness.
I have never quite read a book like this one. It was a bit difficult to follow and stay interested in (as evidenced in the fact that it is only 300 pages but took me about 9 months to read. But, at the same time, I enjoyed it, its themes, and its symbolism quite a lot. I think this is one that can benefit from doing some side research and interpretation while you are reading it.
The book is written as if it is a true story and the author (Charles Kinbote) is a biogr ...more
I have never quite read a book like this one. It was a bit difficult to follow and stay interested in (as evidenced in the fact that it is only 300 pages but took me about 9 months to read. But, at the same time, I enjoyed it, its themes, and its symbolism quite a lot. I think this is one that can benefit from doing some side research and interpretation while you are reading it.
The book is written as if it is a true story and the author (Charles Kinbote) is a biogr ...more
The novel is not the poem "pale fire" the novel itself is in the footnotes/commentary so don't be dumb like me and pick up this book and begin the task of reading and annotating a 999 line poem (which I'm glad I read the poem by itself first but the tea is really not in the poem, the real tea starts after the poem)
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