What a load of bollocks haha Detectives was better

what a load of bollocks haha Detectives was better

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Savage Detectives was a slog

and the nigger chapter in 2666 wasn't? lmao literally 150+ pages of nothingness

Is this shit worth finishing? I'm on page 100 and so far it's some shit about nerds that like some unheard of German author

it gets worse. part 2 is about some schizo cuck professor and part 3 is about some boring nigger journalist doing nothing for 150+ pages. part 4 and 5 are good, though.

lol. Did you enjoy reading the whole thing? Do you regret it at all?

I enjoyed 3/5 of it. 2/5 if I'm honest with myself. I don't regret reading it in the sense of wasting time since it was a book that I always wanted to read and was in my to-read list, but I'm left with disappointment from an author I used to admire. I suppose I've grown out of his literature.

It was written by Bolano for the sake of money. He didn't write it for artistic merit, though he tried his damndest to follow a formula for things that could pass as artistic. It also could be that the English translation sucks. I heard that a lot of the wordplay was lost by the translator who had a middling grasp of Spanish. You also have to consider that Bolano died while writing this. It's really like reading a corpse. It's not complete and while it's got the form of a book it's not really there. I found it to be an interesting creative exercise to read it so that I could understand how novels aren't perfect in their first several drafts and how it really does take some extreme work to make something like this flow neatly.

I do agree regarding the nigger chapter. Bolano didn't really understand American culture I think. He more or less mimed it. He also had an extreme obsession with semen. Otherwise, I don't regret reading it.

I'm reading it in Spanish. I usually can't stand translated Spanish because it always reads the same and takes all the fun out of it. I think I'll push through. When does the part in World War 2 start?

Since I moved to north america I can really see you mongrels chimping at full speed in here. Thank god we're sleeping while you're awake, in Europe. The level of discussion is consistently lower during the hours you animals are awake. This is one of the most important novels of the last 30 years and you're here discussing plot and showing absolutely no understanding of subtext whatsoever. Go back in your local libraries and restart from the Catcher in the Rye.