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[rich]

that may be Bolano's point, that such savagery became so common in places
like Ciudad Juarez. fwiw, I think those scenes are the highlight of the
book along with the black GI section

rich

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:

> JB - Maybe it was chapter 4, "The Part About the Crimes," that was
> exhausting? I'm beginning that section now and it is getting a bit
> exhausting reading through these clinical depictions of awful murders, one
> after another, after being dazzled for three excellent chapters. And being
> impressed at how his writing was revolving around such a spectacle without
> explicitly utilizing it to draw me in. This bit is the hardest for me to
> engage with so far. not for the violence, it's just tedious. I even
> considered skipping over it but I won't do that. I'm hopeful this will be
> redeemed at the end of it all. The climaxes of all three chapters so far
> were fantastic. I can see people falling ff at this point though
>
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