No Thanks, Mr. Nabokov

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Wed Sep 12 09:35:42 CDT 2007


On 9/12/07, Richard Ryan <richardryannyc at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> No taste for Pale Fire, eh?

Pale Fire was OK, but really more a mystery/puzzle than a novel.  It
aims at the head, not the heart (and, no, I was not moved by the
suicide story on the surface of the story).  If others hadn't cracked
open the puzzel for me I would never have "got" it.

David Morris



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