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This book is totally intimidating at first glance, but after a long reading which involved breaks and affairs with other novels, I finally finished it and it was worth the effort. It's totally rewarding in the end and wonderfully written. I just wish that Bolano was still around to give us another masterpiece.
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It took me over a year to read this book. The first part grabbed me immediately and I read it voraciously. Each part was very different, however, so I often took breaks between them. I took a particularly long break during the fourth part, which I found to be a particularly difficult slog. The fourth part was monotonous and painful (in multiple senses of the word) to read, but I appreciated and understood the purpose behind what Bolano was doing in that section. I don't want to give anything awa
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I think I just wasn't in the right mindframe for this - so huge, so sprawling, so utterly without editing that it just never coalesced as a coherent story.
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Nov 04, 2008
Tracyene
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