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I'm about a hundred pages into 2666 and it's decently readable but honestly I don't find much pleasure or challenge in it.

Can some of the Bolaño fans here help me appreciate it? What do you like about it?

Does this has a similar vibe to Sicario, the film? I'm after that Mexican hellscape feel.

What's the point of tedium in long novels? (ie 2666, Moby Dick, Infinite Jest, Ulysses...)

Currently about half way through 2666. There's something about it that makes it very difficult to stop reading. Maybe it's the hypnotic quality associated with tedium? Even if that is the case, isn't that kind of... unhealthy?

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This was so, so much better than Infinite Jest.

So I'm reading this and I can't believe how unbelievably fucking boring this is. The first part was mundane for the most part, it was good at times but mostly really dull. I'm on the second part right now and it's not much better desu. I might just skip this one

Is this book worth a read?

>>14342956
Posting the obvious

True. Especially pic related.

What the fugg was this book

>>13142143
>not set in europe or north america
>comfiness and aesthetics
The plot is tremendously engrossing too, fyi.

What do you think of 2666? I thought it was more of a paperback than The Savage Detectives which is a straight up book, but neither of them are quite novels.

I feel like I'm going insane. I'm hearing things when I read this.

You must have missed 2666.

>>12551792
benno von archimboldi owns only one book at any given time and immediately gives it away once he's finished with it

this is the most misleading cover I've ever seen.
what a joke of a novel.

>The Part about the Crimes
This shit is unreadable.

Why does this book have such an “epic” feel to it? It isn’t an epic, but it is epic.
Are there any other books like it?

>favorite book
>pant size

Is there a correlation between literary movement and fatties? Find out below

30x34 dickies slim straight master race

>>11862477
Step aside, ladies.

Is it just me or is this book, especially The Part About Fate, very Camus-esque? It seems super detached like The Stranger

Can you give me one good reason why 2666 isn't a maximalist novel?

I am going to write what I thought this book was going to be after reading reviews that confirmed its not the book I think its going to be

>>10714095
>>10714122
is that fur on the ground?