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Got a WIP you're excited about? Want to rave about your fave? Or is your fandom absolutely in love with a character who detracts from every scene they bumble into, and you need somewhere to vent? You're in the right place!

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Re: Books - Currently Reading - Pale Fire

[(Anonymous)]

I've been intentionally avoiding reading any interpretation until I finish, while also failing to read for a bit. Got a little further this weekend. Currently wondering if part of the story behind it was Nabokov reading literary commentary and going "pah! This commentary is terrible! It never explains the bits I want explained, and it's boring! If the author wishes to talk about irrelevant things, it would be much enlivened with a story of a fugitive king, and a murder, and...". Because where it seems accurate, it does quite consistently explain the confusing things and leave the obvious things alone. And where no explanation is needed, we get king-drama.

Re: Books - Currently Reading - Pale Fire

[(Anonymous)]

Kinbote is a character straight out of a mumsnet aibu thread.

Poet and Sybil (poet's wife) are shopping. Kinbote has run into them at (or maybe stalked them to) the shops. Sybil has a new travel bag.

Kinbote: OH ARE YOU GOING ON HOLIDAY SOMETIME???

Sybil: Er, yes, at the end of the month.

Kinbote: WHERE???

Sybil: Oh, w-we don't know yet, must be going!

*Kinbote quizzes a mutual acquaintance.*

*Kinbote gets a few details about whereabouts in the country they'll be staying*

*Kinbote grabs a ton of maps and travel books, works out where their holiday home must be, and books another cabin in the same place at the same time*

Kinbote: HAHAHA THEY WILL BE SO SURPRISED TO SEE ME

Re: Books - Currently Reading - Pale Fire

[(Anonymous)]

Also he seems to be keeping count of how many times his neighbors have sex.