Pale Fire - Nabokov

This has been on my TBR pile a while. I've always noted how often Nabokov features on lists produced by writers themselves as one of the greatest novelists of all time. But best known for the highly controversial Lolita its hard for many of us to move past the subject matter. So I would love to give this a try.
Good Reads:
The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, 'Pale Fire', is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal and the fantastical, Kinbote reveals perhaps more than he should be.

Nabokov's darkly witty, richly inventive masterpiece is a suspenseful whodunit, a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship, and a glorious literary conundrum