NP but 2666 again, the play

[Jemmy Bloocher]

Thanks Perry. Excellent points. I'm going to have to go back to it. I did
thoroughly enjoy it up until that point and I do feel, now especially, that
I owe it another attempt. Is it worth starting where I left off or from
scratch?

I adored 100 Years of Solitude, though it's a long time since I've read it.
I remember it very fondly.
On 21 Jan 2016 14:54, "Perry Noid" <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Coming to Chicago in a matter of weeks https://www.goodmantheatre.org/2666
>
> For anyone near the area and interested. I'm very much interested but I
> live on the west coast, unfortunately. Apparently was financed by a
> Powerball lottery winner, the hydra of chance strikes back, and interesting
> that a book based on a fictionalized "murder capital" of Juarez will be
> performed as a play in another one.
>
> I don't know if this a new adaptation or a translation of the Spanish
> play.
>
> I am trying to read *One Hundred Years of Solitude *but I keep going back
> to *2666, *it's got a hold on me. For Jemmy, if you're reading, I think
> you were curious to know if the Part About the Crimes had a hypnotic effect
> as you progress, I do not get that feeling at all when I read it. My hunch
> is that Bolaño wants the reader to be like Lalo Cura, the (I think)
> youngest cop on the force, autodidact detective, who might be my favorite
> character, and get a sense of what it must be like poring over police
> reports that get more piled on as you go, how overwhelming it is and the
> institutional hurdles you face. I don't recall there being any actual
> depictions of the murders, just the reports of bodies turned up and what
> can be gleaned from them, if identified then there are a few more details
> from victims acquaintances. Some victims directly linked though you
> wouldn't know that unless you remember the names or go back and compare
> details, locations etc.
>
> But the reason I don't get numb or hypnotized following along is the
> structure of it. In the cracks between the crimes are the lives of the
> detectives, journalists, Florina Almada the psychic on TV, the
> congresswoman and her own investigation. It is well worth the time,
> especially if you liked the book up until that point since the stories in
> this chapter are not to be missed, nor is the final chapter on Archimboldi.
>
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