2666: A Novel

2666: A Novel
by Roberto Bolano

2666: A Novel
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Author: Roberto Bolano
Translator: Natasha Wimmer
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-11-11
ISBN: 0374100144
Number of pages: 912
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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  • ISBN13: 9780374100148
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Book Review: Incredibly Boring
Summary: 1 Stars

This book would make a great table leg, coaster, or booster seat for a small child. I could not force myslef to finish it; I am simply not that masochistic. Last night I read seven pages that described a woman walking, sleeping, standing, walking, spending money, walking, laughing, sleeping, walking, and then ultimately dying. In short, the author puts far too much effort into describing banal situations that have nothing to do with the plot... wait, what is the plot?? The interconnectedness of the 'books' is abstract at best. Another major turn off is the fact that multiple pages are spent describing dreams. "She looked in the mirror and was horrified. The fog rolled in and loud penny-colored drops rolled down the walls. The smell was terrible and her reflection smiled." PAGES of this drivel folks, pages. I would rather stick forks in my eyes than read one more page of this nonsense.

Summary of 2666: A Novel

THE? POSTHUMOUS?MASTERWORK FROM "ONE?OF THE?GREATEST?AND?MOST?INFLUENTIAL MODERN?WRITERS"?(JAMES?WOOD,?THE?NEW?YORK TIMES?BOOK?REVIEW)
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Composed in the last years of Roberto Bola?o's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of SantaTeresa-a fictional Ju?rez-on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared.

Amazon Best of the Month, November 2008: It was one thing to read Roberto Bola?o's novel The Savage Detectives last year and have your mind thrilled and expanded by a sexy, meandering masterpiece born whole into the English language. It was still another to read it and know, from the advance reports of Spanish readers, that Bola?o's true masterpiece was still to come. And here it is: 2666, the 898-page novel he sprinted to finish before his early death in 2003, again showing Bola?o's mesmerizing ability to spin out tale after tale that balance on the edge between happy-go-lucky hilarity and creeping dread. But where the motion of The Savage Detectives is outward, expanding in wider and wider orbit to collect everything about our lonely world, 2666, while every bit as omnivorous, ratchets relentlessly toward a dark center: the hundreds of mostly unsolved murders of women in the desert borderlands of maquiladoras and la migra in northern Mexico. He takes his time getting there--he tells three often charming book-length tales before arriving at the murders--but when he does, in a brutal and quietly strange landscape where neither David Lynch nor Cormac McCarthy's Anton Chigurh would feel out of place, he writes with a horror that is both haunting and deeply humane. --Tom Nissley

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