2666 bolano5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() What is it about, then? There are too many answers to that question, but here goes– Most of the sentences are very, very long. ![]() The book is excellent, addictive, full of pain and pathos and humanity. The book is, in my paperback edition (composed of three separate books) 893 pages long. The book comprises five sections, each focusing on a separate but often overlapping set of characters and locations. But hang on, I’m already off to a bad start I admit, there’s no context here, is there? Let me try again.Ģ666 is Chilean exile Roberto Bolaño’s posthumous magnum opus. I read the book in less than a month, usually in forty or fifty page sittings, something I usually don’t make time to do. Worried that 900 pages is too long? Don’t worry. Here’s a very short review: go get the book and read it. Do I say that the book is good, great, fantastic, a literary achievement? These words don’t seem big enough, or they seem like hackneyed clichés, ugly inadequacies. ![]()
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