Pale Fire

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I didn't really enjoy it, since Pale Fire's mystery didn't really interest me. The story felt empty, and mainly a gimmick. Still, Nabokov's mastery of language is an amazing, stunning thing to behold. There are truly magnificent sentences on nearly every page. If you just approach the preface and the notes as a long prose poem one just has to experience, immersed in a beautifully written stream of consciousness, without wanting to comprehend or unravel every little allusion or hidden trinket, the book is a masterpiece.

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