Pale Fire

The first thing which I feel obligated to tell you before I begin my response is that I am not the biggest poetry reader in the world. I never really understood the point of saying something in a way that was so hard to understand instead of just coming right out and saying exactly what you think. Poetry is a little too roundabout for my taste.
However, one thing which I usually am into are novels, and part of this question included what we think the purpose of a novel is. I believe that the main purpose of a novel is simply to tell a story. There can be many different kind of novels, fiction or non-fiction, and stories such as comedy or science fiction or a love story, but in the end, novels basically just tell stories.
In my opinion, Pale Fire is not unreadable, but its damn close. I tend to get very discouraged with readings if I do not fully understand them right away, so it took a lot of effort to get through this one. I do not see myself trying to read all of it, Spook Country was hard enough. While I was reading I wasnt really focusing on how postmodern it was because I was mostly trying to just understand the meaning of it, a task which I do not feel I was successful at.
I feel like the foreword was a little too long. Forewords are always too long and this one seemed particularly dragged out to me. Like I said before, I do not think that this was unreadable, but I also wouldnt call it a work of genius, at least not yet. maybe my opinions will change once we are in class and I learn more about it from discussion, but right now I would have to say the this is none of the above.