[np] Bolano

[Mark Kohut]

high school?...a precocious failed finisher, eh?   

I hadn't heard of the book until college and yea I liked it a lot then pretending to understand what I couldn't. Which was a lot.

It is on my to be reread now that I'm smart as i'm gonna be before the dementia...

--- On Sun, 10/18/09, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> From: kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com>
> Subject: Re: [np] Bolano
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Sunday, October 18, 2009, 6:11 PM
> I also found The Savage Detectives
> tedious going after a while.  I suspect that, like IV,
> it has more meaning for those with a close knowledge of the
> setting.  It was reminiscent of Hopscotch by Julio
> Cortazar, a book I struggled unsuccessfully to get through
> way back in high school.  Not sure how it would compare
> now.  Anyone read it?
> 
> Laura
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> >Sent: Oct 18, 2009 12:35 PM
> >To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> >Subject: Re: [np] Bolano
> >
> >I agree -   Imo,  (after reading
> about 1/4)   "The Savage Detectives"  
> >could be retitled "Sex Lives of Young Wanna-Be
> Poets."  I may not  
> >finish this one (and I'm big on finishing). 
>   "The Savage  
> >Detectives"  was a huge disappointment from
> "2666"  which I really  
> >enjoyed although it was pretty intense about all those
> dead women.    
> >Knowing that central part is based on a true
> situation  made it more  
> >readable.
> >
> >Google  -    Juarez women murdered.
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_homicides_in_Ciudad_Juárez
> >
> >Bekah
> >
> >On Oct 18, 2009, at 8:18 AM, rich wrote:
> >
> >> I think Bolano is really overrated. not that he's
> bad mind you but
> >> alot of what I've read bored me to tears like the
> savage detectives
> >> and at least half of 2666--tho the part of about
> the murders is very
> >> effective and chilling mostly b/c the characters
> aren't poets or
> >> writers or intellectuals who tend to drone on and
> on about this or
> >> that poet or writer--its very insulated and
> doesn't breathe with any
> >> sort of life. 2666 reads like it was written,
> rushed-some things stick
> >> but not a majority
> >> Nazi Literature in the Americas is mostly good and
> By Night in Chile
> >> was the only other novel I could finish.
> >>
> >>
> >> rich
> >>
> >> On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Kai Frederik
> Lorentzen
> >> <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Recently I read "El gaucho insufrible", a
> collection of short  
> >>> stories/essays,
> >>> in German translation and wasn't that
> enthusiastic about it.
> >>>
> >>> What can I say? It's stylish and I read it
> (too?) quick. Yet for me  
> >>> Neo-Kafka
> >>> and pomo-like quoting this then quoting that
> do not mix very well.  
> >>> There are
> >>> too many writers doing this (having done this)
> these years.
> >>>
> >>> The first story ("Jim") is the best. About an
> US-American getting  
> >>> lost in
> >>> Mexiko. But I don't think I'll invest a
> hundred Deutschmarks for  
> >>> "2666".
> >>>
> >>> Just my own impression. And then I cannot read
> Spanish, so ..
> >>>
> >>> KFL
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >http://web.mac.com/bekker2/
> >
> >
> 
> 
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