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[the_audient]

The Morning News is currently breaking down the book-world, bracket-style, in the annual Tournament of Books, and I am starting to wonder - am I the only person who actually enjoyed reading Bolaño's 2666? The second round, it's blasting through the competition, behemoth-like, but all of the reviews cite the weight, the starpower, the masterpiece-

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[thelican]

I must say, this is one of the pleasantest reviews of it I've read.

(Although, to answer your first wondering: the writer of a blog I frequent only occasionally happily compared it to crack and asked why no one had told her it was like crack, for heaven's sake.

(I haven't read it yet.)

[grashupfer]

I enjoyed parts of it. I thought The Part About Amalfitano was brilliant. Like really totally brilliant. The opening section about The Critics was (how to say it nicely?) crap, which is unfortunate because it's the beginning. The Part about Fate made me say: why did you try that, Bolaño? The end almost turned out to deliver the beginning, but not quite.

[the_audient]

I didn't hate the first part, but it's good to see a second opinion, because I was hesitant to say I liked it less. See, I read most of the first book on Metro North and most of the rest in my bed, and as much as I'd like to think that the alternate world of a narrative exists all luminous and discrete somewhere behind your head, the fact of the matter is that reading a book while your ass is falling asleep from that particular scootched-down knees-up posture of the train tends to color your interpretation.

[grashupfer]

Yes, you've said that perfectly. The book merely the shimmering go-between from the train car to that other world.

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