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5.0�toiles sur 5 Nothing pale about it, Sep 21 2006

Par	Henry Batista (Switzerland) - Voir tous mes commentaires

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This book has bee likened to McCrea's KATZENJAMMER which contains elements of the same thing---what is truth----what is the lie? PALE FIRE can be read on many levels, but if you really want to 'get' it, you'll have to delve into the structure, pay attention, and possibly read it twice. Nabakov uses the book to not only tell a story, but also to show how the story is at once true, and false. I was also reminded of Palahniuk's FIGHT CLUB with its weird tone and twists at the end. I can't recommend PALE FIRE enough, and also the author's better known LOLITA.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 Masterpiece, Juil 17 2004

Par	Mark Cannon (Larchmont, NY) - Voir tous mes commentaires

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An original and one-of-a-kind art form. The story occurs not mainly in the text, but in the "notes," and not so much in what is told, but in how it is told. The commentator/annotator, Kinbote, is obsessed with telling his story -- but the keys are in the manner and craziness of how he tells it. "Pale Fire" is a wonderful and transporting journey.

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4.0�toiles sur 5 An amazingly original achievement, Jui 17 2004

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Reading Nabokov, it is impossible not to get the impression that this is an author who knows that he is 100 times smarter than his readers. Not only that, he also feels no shame in making that abundantly obvious with every sentence that he writes. Reading Pale Fire is the literary equivalent of turning around in circles until you get so dizzy that you fall over, punch drunk and hysterical. You feel sick and disorientated, but you also get the sense that the process was somehow fun and - dare I say - worth it.

Whether you like this book or not - and personally, I can't say that I loved it - it is hard to deny what an amazing achievement it is. Nabokov first writes a 999-line poem - the equivalent of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, in length if not in quality. He then writes a foreword to the poem, and a line-by-line commentary, as if the poem were written by someone else. And by means of the commentary he weaves an imaginative, suspenseful adventure that is so obviously fictitious that it immediately becomes real. There's no denying that this is brilliantly creative and original writing.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 Nabokov's Best Ever?
Pale Fire -- Vladimir Nabokov

It is arguable, and debatable, whether this title or Lolita is Nabokov's masterpiece, but what is certain is that Pale Fire is once of the... Lisez davantage

Publi� le Jui 8 2004 par Scott Esposito

5.0�toiles sur 5 amazing!
This book is so incredible. All I can say is that I re-read it 4 times year and still drown in it. Totally brilliant!

Publi� le Mai 27 2004

5.0�toiles sur 5 Now my favorite book
I remember this awful woman I had for 10th grade literature - the kind who wouldn't allow for any interpretation beyond "The scarlet letter A stands for Adultery" - who... Lisez davantage

Publi� le Mars 24 2004 par Susan Howson

5.0�toiles sur 5 Mad, bad and glorious to know
Take everything you knew or thought about Vladimir Nabokov, and stuff it in the trash. Experimental novel "Pale Fire" is a strange, haunting, magical experience, and as... Lisez davantage

Publi� le Mars 2 2004 par E. A Solinas

5.0�toiles sur 5 if ever a novel deserved 5 stars...
Let's put things straight from the start: this is a weird novel, practically a genre unto itself. It consists of a long poem ("pale fire") supposedly written by a... Lisez davantage

Publi� le Janv. 28 2004 par Simone Oltolina

3.0�toiles sur 5 A novel told in an interesting form
Reclusive American poet John Shade composes a 999-line poem titled "Pale Fire" and finishes it on the day of his death. Lisez davantage

Publi� le D�c 22 2003 par gac1003

4.0�toiles sur 5 An Expert Experiment
One of the most formally experimental novels ever written, Pale Fire is the name of a 999 line cyclical poem (the last line can be continued to the first line, ad infin). Lisez davantage

Publi� le D�c 5 2003 par Jimmy Chen

5.0�toiles sur 5 Nabokov outsmarts himself. I think.
Once upon a time, a judge named Goldsworth who lived in the college town of New Wye, Appalachia, sent a homicidal maniac named Jack Grey to an Institute for the Criminal Insane... Lisez davantage

Publi� le Nov. 4 2003

5.0�toiles sur 5 Better than Lolita
I'm sorry, but Pale Fire is Nabokov's greatest work. It is funnier, more troubling, and ultimately a more satisfying read than any of his other works. Lisez davantage

Publi� le Sep 17 2003 par Robert L. Brewer

5.0�toiles sur 5 Dead-accurate parody of academic critics
"Pale Fire" is indeed a book which repays return visits. I recently picked it up again, and noted two new aspects of interest. Lisez davantage

Publi� le Ao� 2 2003 par Roberto Olivera

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