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1. The Part about Archimboldi
2. The Part about Amalfitano
3. The Part about the Critics
4. The Part about the Crimes
5. The Part about Fate

9001. The apologetic foreword explaining why it was released as one volume.
9002. The apologetic afterword explaining why it was released it as one volume.

>> No.1965567

Fuck Archimboldi. I don't get why everyone is so damn high on that section. For me, it's probably.....

1. Amalfitano
2. The Critics
3. The Crimes
4. Fate
5. Archimboldi

Basically Sonora > Archimboldi

>> No.1965571

>>1965567
Crazy talk. Though I did debate between Amalfitano and Archimboldi for #1

>> No.1965575

1. Part One
2. The Ending
3. The parts with Baxter
4. The parts with Gertrude

9001. any part with Miriam
9002. any part with Clara

>> No.1965587

>inb4 that one guy that constantly scoffs at reading Bolano in translation, time and time again.

>> No.1965630

IS this a fragment or does it have a proper ending with closure?

>> No.1965656

At first I was like:

1. Critics
2. Archimboldi
3. The murders
4. Amalfitano
5. Fate

Then I was like:
1. Archimboldi
2. Critics
3. Amalfitano
4. Fate
5. The murders

An awesome book, 8/10.

>> No.1965684

>>1965630
It may not have the resolutions you're looking for but the last 40 or so pages in Archimboldi, the last part, will blow your mind.

>> No.1965687

>>1965684
fair enough

I just hate the feel of reading something unfinished. If it has any kind of ending I am fine. Thank you good sir. This book is now on top of my reading list.

>> No.1965695

>>1965687

The last 5 pages, where you expect some exciting revealing or good conclusion, are instead two siblings talking about their favourite ice creams.

trollface.jpg

>> No.1965707

>>1965695
I am not too stupid to read spoilers if we are already talking about the ending.

But thanks for using the spoiler tags tripfag.

>> No.1965708

>2666
>War and Peace
>Remembrance of Things Past
>Sons and Lovers
>Count of Monte Cristo
>Don Quixote

Which one do you find better? Which should I read first?

>> No.1965712

>>1965708
War and Peace

>> No.1965713

>>1965708

Twilight

>> No.1965779

bump>>1965708

>> No.1965813

>>1965708

Harry Potter

>> No.1965844

>>1965567
Basically Sonora > Archimboldi

This

>> No.1966585

>>1965844
Isn't the majority of Critics based outside Sonora?

>> No.1966603

Why is this so good, but The Savage Detective so bad? Stuff like Amulet and LEOE are decent though. I want to get lots of his stuff, but can't afford the hardcovers.

>> No.1967475
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1967475

>>1966603
>Savage Detectives
>Bad

>> No.1967486

>>1966603

Another classic Sunhawkism.

>> No.1967624
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1967624

>couldn't finish book 1 (after 125 pages)

>it was just... so bad...

>> No.1967633

>>1967624

Boring academics writing about the sex lives of boring academics usually sucks.

>> No.1967643

>>1967486
If Sunhawk didn't post with regularity, I'd think he's a troll. Before reading Sunhawk's post, I never would have believed that someone could be so undiscerning.

Now, I just laugh at them. He's just about the standard by which all inept thinkers are judged.

>> No.1967865

Oh, I'd really like to read this book, since I've read The Savage Detectives and Nazi Literature in America.

I don't want to continue reading the thread so not to read any spoil, but I find weird that people say The Savage Detectives are bad.

My mother tongue is Spanish, I'm from Chile. Could it be that in Spanish makes more sense? Not in language but in idiosyncrasy or something of the kind?

>> No.1967888

>>1967486
i've come to love him

dude just keeps on chuggin

>> No.1968528

>>1967624
How could you not finish Critics? that part is sooo good!
>>1967865
I am jealous of the people who can read this in Spanish, Wimmer is a good translator, I'm sure there is very little that would be changed from Bolano's exact image but to read it exactly as he wrote it, consider yourself lucky. I have been working on my Spanish diligently for years, my hope is to one day read Bolano in Spanish.

>> No.1968770

The best part of 2666 is probably about page 790 - 850, which shows Archimboldi's rise as a writer. I'm reading that now. Such great parts to it.

>>1967486
>>1967865

Haters gonna hate. I like way they never explain themselves, they just say that a post sucks.

>> No.1968809

Guess they didn't have anything to say to that. It may've been a samefag, anyway.

>> No.1969086

>>1968770
Amazing part