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The Savage Detectives
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Sarah
May 27, 2008 rated it did not like it
I really don't understand what's supposedly so fan-freaking-tastic about this book. Maybe I'm not a fan of teenage boy coming-of-age books (as I also loathed The Catcher in the Rye). Maybe I don't know enough about Mexican literature to appreciate this. Maybe I don't like poetry enough to care. Maybe it was the repetitive nothingness of Juan's diary entries (went here, smoked some weed, saw so-and-so, had sex with Maria. Next day: went here, drank some tequila, saw so-and-so, had sex with Rosari ...more
Jenny
I was so excited to read this. I couldn't wait, and I knew I was going to love it before I even started it. And maybe that is why I didn't love it; maybe it couldn't possibly have lived up to my expectations for it. I even read most of it during a total of 18 hours on a bus through Colombia, which I understand is not Mexico where the book is mostly set, but it did focus on Latin American poets and authors in general.

Ok moving on...

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Apr 26, 2018 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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