2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano
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Book Reviews of 2666: A Novel
Book Review: 2666 Read if you dare!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an incredible novel of sweeping scope and mesmerizing story line. It is dark and rich. Maybe not for every gentle reader, but to those connoisseurs that abandon themselves to the enthrallment of the 900-something-pages the rewards are commensurate. It is difficult to describe without resorting to magical terms. To emerge from the novel at the end is as if to awaken from a spell, a bewitchment cast upon the reader in the late hours of the night. You, brave reader, will definitely, breathlessly forge forward in the wee hours of your reading journey across continents, academia, war, time, art, and crime. You will visit McCarthy's country not for old men or in Roberto Bolano's case, young women.
As in life, Bolano's characters' paths cross and recross, entangle sometimes. Some run parallel for a time and some are introduced to disappear and never appear again. The resolutions of the great mysteries of the novel, like life, are never fully satisfied. But,--the questions, --the questions posed are satisfying and lingering. Be courageous! Have fun! Read this book.
Book Review: Best fiction of 2008
Summary: 5 Stars
A shocking compelling book. The 900 hundred page novel written by Robert Bolano is the story of a violent, sexist Mexico that I, a naive tourist would never associate to the smiling people and lavish resorts of a all inclusive Americanized Mexico. The book is written in 5 parts. With a underlying thread of violence that connects them all. The story is both shocking and tender. The violence of part 4 is at times almost unbearable to read. I loved this book! I was deeply touched by one page and thoroughly disgusted by another. This is a difficult book to read but well worth every moment spent. I ended the book feeling connected to the writer and the country. The next time I visit Mexico I want experience the real country and the people. If you love long emotional tempestuous novels you must read it! Unfortunately Robert Balano died in 2003, but his legacy is a masterwork. This was for me one of the rare books that filled my mind with possibilities.Book Review: are you over 13?
Summary: 5 Stars
Hey friend, i never got over 13 when for my birthday my parents got me what i asked for:revell's model of a 1940s ford which could be made straight or street rod-hard choice for a ist born,german capricorn with polish anarchistic artistic needs.2666= same choice: read,write, smoke, drink and make a book life that EXPLODES the need to pay bills or write playbills . Or read this book because you have no better way to spend the hours of your life( 'tho you probably think you do). Or blah, blah: I'm way cool and this work is CRAP. BUT, don't forget, ,j joyce = you gotta create the consciousness of the race(all of us): or you can poke your mind to death with plato/ and the Catholic Fathers while selling ice cream for the Franciscans during 8th grade recess time. Jesus, with the stinky sandals and bad Camel breath ,would laugh, weep and forgive the dirtbags in this work so why can't you?Book Review: unfinished is beside the point
Summary: 5 Stars
those who are unhappy with this book because it is unfinished missed the point, i think. stop trying to "get it" and just read. i think that the seemingly arbitrary nature of the book is what makes it so great. why? i don't know, i just do! if you can let go of all those book reviews you read and approach this with your eyes open, you'll probably enjoy... forget about what some book reviewer in the NY Times said... all of that has nothing to do with this book. i like the idea of the desert that comes to my mind every time i think back on it... no need to squeeze this into some sort of preconceived cultural context.
There's nothing in this book that tries to tell you how to feel, how to react. If you can deal with that, you'll like it.
Is it a "masterpiece"? Why not let someone else think about that and just read it for it's own sake?
Book Review: Man, this really is Dali holding a pen instead of a brush.
Summary: 5 Stars
Wouldn't want to write anything on the 2666 material for fear of disclosing something, even a tiny, small phrase or word, that i feel you the reader should not be deprived of the pleasure of discovering yourself.
All I'll say is, that yes, this is most probably the first real masterpiece of this century. Oh no doubt about it.
So what makes a masterpiece?
Here I can write a whole paragraph, but in truth, as I see and feel it, only one thing : at the end, you'd want to meet the writer personally and wish he/she were your friend so that you could discuss his/her work for days and nights on end.
Now how many times have we really felt that about a book?
Too often we murder the meaning of a word by its endless usage. Well I use this word sparingly, so I'll just say that 2666 is BEAUTIFUL.