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fliptophead posted: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. 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) Antwan3K fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Jul 3, 2014 |
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fliptophead posted:I'll see how I go - any clues as to why it's more difficult later on? 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'). It is quite clever to me how he manages to weave a story and develops characters inside of an elaborate - quite structured, mostly one murder per paragraph - detailing of murders in a town, but still you feel really weird when reading about serial killings so much that it just becomes noise. I still tried to read every girl's murder as an individual tragedy but it became a real chore. Antwan3K fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Jul 4, 2014 |
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