Folio: 2666 (Series #A43713) (Paperback)

from giovannigf

Really great. Uneven at points, but none of it bad. It's novels like these that the term "tour de force" was invented for. I don't understand the reviewers who say it's difficult - painful, yes, because the subject matter is so dark, but the style is clear and unpretentious.

from Dalan

By turns this book is funny, tender, horrible, but always surprising and there's never a compromise with the truth. It has much to say about violence, corruption, incompetence, and frail human best efforts, which include writing and reading. Magnum opus!

from lriley

Considered by most it seems as Roberto Bolano's masterpiece--2666 certainly ranks as one of the most ambitious works that I have ever read. Split into 5 different sections with mostly different characters, plotlines and at times differences in technique and style--Bolano in effect attempted to ta...

from TheTwoDs

So as I'm reading 2666 I begin to shudder in a way that few works of art can make me do, thoughts of David Lynch and Italo Calvino on a two year bender in Mexico producing the love-child that is 2666 percolating in my mind. Then, a few pages later, some of the characters begin discussing David Ly...

from solla

[2666] by [[Roberto Bolaño]] This book is divided into five sections, and Bolaño had actually given instructions that it should be published as five books, thinking that would be more financially successful for his children, as he knew that he was dying. I am glad that the book was not divided up...