Brittsky’s Reviews > Pale Fire > Status Update

words cannot express how personally challenging I am finding it to read this.
I am equal parts frustrated and bewitched by Nabokov’s heady prose, and, besides, completely uninterested in the plot.
It’s been like a month of trying to read this at every interval and I have not been “sucked in” once. It’s just me running up against stodgy sentences and chipping my teeth. Seeing the forest for the trees etc

This is so good and so fucking hard to read. NOT an eyes skate over the page sort of book.
obtrusive prose.

poem: FINISHED! Not what I expected. much to chew on. meter does not concern this man