Nabokov's Pale Fire is something else

I read Pale Fire so many decades ago that I had forgotten all about it until I found the paperback hidden in my bookshelves (original cost: 65 cents!). Figured I'd give it a shot. Holy cow, this is some book. A 999-line poem by a fictitious poet and hundred-plus pages of notes about the poem and the poet by a fictitious neighbor that indirectly also tells a story of a fictitious country with a murder mystery sort of included. That sounds terrible, but it's brilliant. I am no fan of big epic poems but this o