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8389829 No.8389829 [Reply] [Original]

What is the point of this book? I've read a little past the halfway point, but I'm losing interest... Did you like this? What's good about it?

>> No.8389841
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8389841

>reading translations

>> No.8389850

>>8389829
its one of those books that make you realize its fucking amazing only after you've finished it.

>> No.8389858

I hate to sound like such a pleb but I didn't really get the "point" either. I wasn't sure what I was supposed to feel when the book was over. I never found any dramatic or thematic arcs carried out to conclusion

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>>8389841
What languages do you speak, anon? XD

>> No.8389977

also the character that is supposed to be the author (Belano) is less interesting than his partner, Ulises

>> No.8389983

>>8389974
English, Spanish, a bit of German and trying to read Chinese.

>> No.8389987

>>8389829
>reading translations
>not being a pleb

you can only pick one

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>>8389983
That's an impressive list.
But why not French?

>> No.8389997

>>8389987
>You're serious
>You're not retarded

you can only pick one lol

>> No.8390003

>>8389997
whooooo wooooAAAAaahaoooooooo

woooooooOOOOOOO lol

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>>8390003
I know which one you picked.

>> No.8390019

>>8390014
>getting triggered because he can only speak burguerlanguage

this country needs to be bombed

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>>8390019
ceci n'est pas une burger

>> No.8390144

>>8390036
>>8390019
>>8390014
>>8390003
>>8389997
>>8389991
>>8389987
>>8389841
Out of this thread, fagtrons. This is just one of the pictures that came up when I googled it. It was larger than the others, so I picked it

>> No.8390161

>>8389829
what's the point of anything my dude
really tho its basically bolano changing just enough of his own past experience so that its fiction, probably meant a fuckton to him but if you dont dig it thats probably fine. try 2666, you might like it better, or don't

>> No.8390166

>>8390144
What? You mean to say you read it in the original Korean sub-dialect?

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>>8389829
Its a better version of On the Road.


I assume you're past Mexicans Lost in Mexico part? I read the entire book in a week when I was in bed with a fever and it all felt like a dream. Once you get to the revolution part (can't remember the name of the woman involved) thats when it really clicked with me.

>> No.8390263

>>8390257
Should I read SD before 2666?

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>>8390263
Its not required but you can if you want. I plowed through all of Bolanos oeuvre I could get my hands on in the span of 6 months so reading 2666 I noticed callbacks to certain themes in his shorts and other works meanwhile being a completely different beast to everything before it.