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Did you read front to back or skip back and forth between the poem/commentary? (I'm assuming a lot of people who went front to back revisited segments of the poem as they were reading the commentary--this counts as front to back).

>> No.19580152

>>19580016
foreword commentary poem commentary foreword poem commentary. This is the correct order.

>> No.19580290

this book utterly filtered me, I don't want to keep moving back and forth to understand it

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>>19580016
So far I've only read it front to back, occasionally rereading bits of the poem as I go through the commentary.
But I want to try following the references from note to note. There's a paper on JSTOR that compares them to warp pipes in Super Mario.

>> No.19580945

>>19580016
foreword
poem
commentary and jumping back rereading poem passages

So front to back I guess, thoroughly enjoyed it.

>> No.19580992

Front to back is the way to go.

>> No.19581587

>>19580945
THIS
This is the best answer
God I love Nabokov's oeuvre so much

>> No.19582309

>>19580016
Back/forth seems analytical whereas front to back and occasionally going back to the poem seems more enjoyable. Maybe back/forth for a reread.

>> No.19582376

I gave this book to an escort with her hourly fee inside. She invited me for coffee a month later but I didn’t enjoy her vagina enough to see her again.

>> No.19582449

>>19582376
I can't tell whether this is based or cringe.

>> No.19583355

>>19582449
Based because he admitted to paying for it; cringe because he's one of those guys who think the strippers actually like him.

>> No.19583372

front to back like a normal book. any other answer is retarded.

>> No.19583379

I vaguely recall that the poem was divided into sections, and I would read one section of the poem, then the commentary on that section, then the next poem section, etc.
I need to read it again because I've been through much more Nabokov now and the first time I never realized that the index was another layer of hidden detail.

>> No.19583717

>>19583372
>t. autist

>> No.19583768

>>19580290
I got to the point where the lad was admiring the ass of the other kid while going through a tunnel or something like that.

>> No.19584057

>>19583355
Uhhh, they did like me.

I'm 6'4", lift 1.5/2.3/3.5/4.7, have a sculpted body, and a (middling but passable) 6.7 inch dick.

>> No.19584088
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>>19584057
>Chad has to hire escorts

>> No.19584276

I skipped the foreword and endnotes and just read the poem. I'm not some kind of pretentious ass who needs to read the notes to understand how to appreciate mediocre verse.

>> No.19584319

>>19583355

I never pay for the emotional services. I’m just using their body to fulfill my animal needs. I’m also not the other poster describing my physical appearance. Honestly it feels like going back and forth between dr jekyll & mr hyde

>> No.19584334

>>19584276
I hope this is bait, but who can tell anymore

>> No.19584344

>>19584088
It is a thing that happens. Usually with sex addicts

>> No.19584375

>>19584319
>I never pay for the emotional services
>I gave a hooker my copy of Pale Fire by Nabokov
Pick one.

>> No.19585122

>>19580016
I didn't read the commentary at all.

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>>19580016
Read the index before anything else