Pale Fire. What a rollercoaster.

By mintEpilogue

There’s this super loud amusement park right outside where I’m staying, so yeah, it’s kind of a chaos vibe. Honestly, this book felt like a wild ride. I was thrown off right away in the foreword, then I got totally caught by that 999-line poem, but the commentaries annoyed me at times. I still read it straight through, even when parts dragged and I kind of had to push myself. I’m really glad I stuck with it though, because overall it ended up being awesome. By the end, I went back to the foreword and things finally clicked—like, I finally got what K was going on about. It also made me feel like his whole obsession and mental spiral is actually real, because certain lines suddenly made sense. And then after finishing, I reread the foreword again and ended up going back to the poem too, which is honestly crazy, same energy as Kinbote. I’ve never been tricked into rereading something like this before—now I’m definitely going back. I’m also probably going to grab the physical copy since I read on Kindle, just so I can line up the commentaries with the lines properly.