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Natasha Wimmer
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Reader! Reader!
Reader! Reader! rated it 9 years ago
"As I write, I don't know what this book is about", p. 203.I don't really know either, but I don't feel bad about it after reading that.I learned a lot about random things: real tennis, 16th century Popes and bishop and cardinals, Mexican featherwork, Caravaggio, Cortes. Thanks you google and wikipe...
Cynically Speaking
Cynically Speaking rated it 9 years ago
While I canot call Mr. Bolano's last work "2666" profound it was very different. The book is made up of 5 disparate sections which are only connected via a multitude of female murders in Santa Teresa Mexico. The fourth section of the novel is an accounting of the murders (serial killings) from 199...
Lagraziana's Kalliopeion
Lagraziana's Kalliopeion rated it 10 years ago
In his biographical novel The Way to Paradise the Peruvian writer and Nobel Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa displays the lives of the French trade unionist and early women’s rights activist Flora Tristán (7 April 1803 – 14 November 1844) and of her famous grand-son, the post-impressionist painter ...
bbbart
bbbart rated it 10 years ago
``An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.'' -- BaudelaireIf there was ever a book impossible to write a review about, it must be Bolaño's 2666. Having just finished the book, I have the urge rating it with five stars. The last 100 pages were really amazing.However, I also remember the utter bored...
kennethjmcginnis
kennethjmcginnis rated it 11 years ago
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