Reading _2666_
Just started reading Roberto Bolano's sprawling novel _2666_ about a week ago, and I can hardly think about anything else. So far, I'm still on "The Part About the Critics," and I am truly inspired at the author's ability to make the conference-going antics of four literature scholars more gripping than any of the random crime novels I was reading recently. I liked the book from the first word, but when an otherwise ordinary paragraph started with the line, "The city, like all cities, was endless," I nearly swooned.
Go read it.
Go read it.