1. His narcissistic nature. Kinbote is quite possibly one of the most narcissistic literary characters to ever be written. He takes Shade's beautiful poem, and makes it all about himself. I HATE people like that.
2. His habit of spying on John Shade. He is CREEPY!!! Not only does Kinbote spy on him with binoculars in order to track his and Sybil's every move, he invades their privacy in other ways as well.
3. The fact that he stole Shades poem at the end rather than try to care for his "good" friend. He claims to love Shade, yet when he is shot, Kinbote is more concerned about the manuscript than his friend. The fact that he thinks he is qualified to write the last line is annoying as well.
4. His psychotic belief that he is in fact a king of a "distant northern land" named Zembla and is being pursued by the Gradus. He is basically crazy, yet attempts to make it seem like he is a totally credible narrator and it is everyone else that is mistaken.
5. His extreme dislike for and endless amount of things. He doesn't like the pictures of Judge Goldsworth's daughters, so he throws them in the closet. He dislikes Sybil Shade as well as the cat that lives in Goldsworth's house. Other than Shade, he really likes very few people. It seems like he is always complaining about people and his surroundings.
6. His laziness. Kinbote spends so much time telling his story, yet there are numerous instances in which he blames other people for not knowing Shade's story. Although his story is a construct of his imagination, he goes into detail about things that happened when he wasn't present. If he really cared about giving an accurate commentary as he claims, he would have taken the necessary time to come up with the missing information.
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