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OK I'm almost at the end of The Critics part of 2666 by Roberto Bolano. So far it is not really interesting me as much as I'd expected. Have any of you lot finished it and did it pick up? It seems very far up is own butt with these stupid literary snobs running around trying to track down this supposedly great German author (Archimboldi), doing a lot of navel gazing while ignoring their crippled colleague in a wheelchair. I need a really good recommendation to stick with this or its going in the book donation pile.
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The characters are OK but the story is really bland. I think you're on the money about it being a first draft. I'll move on I think.
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Jun 22, 2014 01:36
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Antwan3K posted:It becomes a completely different book in each of the different parts. The most difficult part is definitely still ahead though... Butthen you cry at the end (didn't actually cry of course - we are after all in the postmodern age, but it's very moving) I'll see how I go - any clues as to why it's more difficult later on? Michael Chabon is an author who I find very accessible and has written some great stuff (The Yiddish Policemen's Union and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay) but I don't see his work being discussed here too often. He tends to write a lot on Jewish identity, with one of the plots in Kavalier and Clay involving a Golem being smuggled out of Europe. Yiddish Policemen's Union takes place in an alternate history where the Jewish people are settled in Alaska instead of Israel and it's a mishmash of detective and speculative fiction. I guess seeing as it's difficult to classify as one particular genre it could be considered Postmodern!
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Jul 4, 2014 00:15
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Antwan3K posted:More difficult to keep reading because of extremely repetitive violence. It will become clear quite quickly when you start reading the part ('The Part about the Crimes'). Really? I had no idea the book went in that direction!
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