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2666 by Roberto Bolaño

20 reviews

yaelm's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
Good though maddening, hated it and everyone in it as much as I understand it’s a good literary work.
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getradified's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

The Part About the Crimes is one of the most challenging things I have ever read. 
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bookwormbecca's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I loved all the stories within the story, giving time and significance to someone just passing through the story for a brief moment felt poetic and beautiful (even though a lot of their stories themselves were dark). 

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jacobinreads's review against another edition

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dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

2666 is an immense, effective masterwork. Its difficult subject matter is perfectly embodied in the difficult form the novel takes; especially the middle section, which imposes the terrible, numbing enormity of femicide.

 Bolano writes brilliantly and brutally. Tangled networks of motifs span the novel from beginning to end, and I'm sure I'll be puzzling through them for a while yet, though I will have to take pause before I return to his Santa Teresa. 
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mmcloe's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Oh my god

I'm going to have to come back later and review this more fully after I have more time to digest everything. I don't know how to rate something like this.

A diary of total breakdown - academic, personal, artistic, legal, moral, discursive collapse of modern society. There's some respite and hope in huddling together and embracing the small pleasures of the senses, but not a ton. I'm reminded a lot of Delany's Dhalgren and Anzaldua's Borderlands. I'm left facing the ghost of Christmas future; is this a picture of what will be, or what may be? 

Also all the true crime podcast listeners need to read this, especially the part about the crimes (one of the only sections of a novel I had to put down entirely). 
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coolbookguy's review against another edition

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challenging dark informative sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

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loryyyy's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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emi98's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

THIS WAS SO INSANE I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD GET THROUGH IT. I loved some parts and others I literally just went (static noise). I thought the prose was great and the character cast is next level interesting.
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camz's review against another edition

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slow-paced

1.5

Lo pude haber disfrutado hace 5 años, pero en este pudo de mi vida la única razón por la que lo terminé es para quitarlo de mi lista de pendientes. 

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themysteriouserk's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Though it’s often considered unfinished due to Bolaño’s death, and though it’s so often found on the shelves of people who just want to look like they’re smarter than you, it’s in my opinion one of the greatest novels ever written. Its often absolutely repulsive subject matter definitely means it’s not a book for everyone, but also makes the terror of imperialism and the complicity of ordinary people in terrible violence feel real and close in a way few other books manage.
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