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Book Reviews of 2666: A Novel
Book Review: 2666
Summary: 3 Stars
I don't understand how someone would think people would buy this in a series of 5 books. I found it very confusing, nothing came together and I finally put it down after finishing the first four books. What was it that the critics liked?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: 2666 is a rich and luxurious set of stories
Summary: 5 Stars
Deeply rich with points and counterpoints, side stories, main stories, and a host of ways to explore this 900 page book the reader can often get lost thinking about the counterpoints that they are reading. This is not a typical book, there are no happy endings here, nothing gets tidied up, and few things get resolved. What the book does provide though is a rich context, nearly luxurious in its writing, it is like slipping into an alternative universe where we are both better than we really are and stranger than we really are.
The book is written in the third person, we learn the story from the view point of being told what the points in the story are. You don't have to think about what is being said, rather you starting thinking what you would do in a similar situation, how you would do the same thing. That is the beauty of this book, it is deeply internalizable, you sympathize, you learn with the characters. There is nothing monotonous about the book, but you will find yourself getting emotionally involved with the characters throughout the five stories in the book. That is what great literature is about, getting involved, finding a connection, understanding where the characters are coming from because they hit an emotional nerve on the part of the reader. This book certainly did that for me, I found myself becoming emotionally involved, and rereading sections of the book to see if I could find more, learn more, understand the situation better as the story line becomes your own.
Overall I found the book compelling, long, thought provoking. Few books reach this standard, and unfortunately this is the last book from Roberto Bolaño. Sad, but if you are going to leave a legacy, this is the book you want to leave. Well worth buying, make sure you have the time to read it if you do. Some will fade out after the first story, but if you want to stretch your imagination, and have a book that you can lose yourself in, this is the book you want to get.
Book Review: 2666: A Novel
Summary: 5 Stars
The seller was prompt with delivery for this title. I purchased it new and I'm very pleased. Thanks.Book Review: 2666: A Waste of Time
Summary: 1 Stars
Due to the accolades this book had received, I refused to give up on it despite my increasing frustration. I kept looking for the gold and never found it. Finally, two-thirds of the way through, I quit. I found it to be boring, repetitive, pointless, misogynistic, indulgent blather and not worth my time. I don't have enough days on this earth to waste on such overrated drivel. I can see how this might have been written by a very ill man.