Alex’s Reviews > The Savage Detectives > Status Update

Walking in circles, muttering a series of numbers underneath my breath - that's what I'll be doing when this is all over.

Now that Ulises is missing there almost seems to be a plot forming... almost.

I really don't know what to make of this book, and yet I love it so far. I don't know why I feel this way, it doesn't really do the usual stuff books I love tend to do, and there hasn't been much forward motion plot-wise since the various interviews began (unless it's all going on beneath the surface). I'm not holding out hope that the ending will pull the curtain back. I just hope I don't lose interest before then.

I'm enjoying the structure of this, and wondering if I'll ever find out anything substantial about Bolano or Lima.

This is the second book about a rag-tag group of artists or hipsters or pseudo-intellectuals in Latin America wandering around doing not much at all since the start of 2015 (my reading, not their wandering) and so far this is about a million times better than that other one *cough*HOPSCOTCH*cough*.