I think this book is giving me PTSD
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more like, pretty teens sexually destroyed
I unironically got my mind destroyed by that one scene. Couldn't smoke weed without obsessing over it. Bolaño is a serious fricking writer, man. He forces us to confront morality. Of course that's what literature is about. Don't give me that pretty words bullshit.
I don't know what scene your referring to, I'm not looknig forward to it. I'm still on the part about the murders. The most fricked up part I cant stop thinking about is the 11 or 13 year old who died of heart attacks. and the part where they cut the guys balls off in prison was really intense. Maybe i'll post that page so people can see.
>the part where they cut the guys balls off in prison
turtle eggs (no one laughed)
the scene I'm talking about is probably coming up in like 5 pages prisoners are raped to death with broomsticks
ok yeah I did read that. They got what the deserved for stabbing that girl for no fricking reason.
Wrong. There's no excuse for such an orgy of cruelty. That this kind of thing happens condemns us all. Also they were innocent.
nah man there isn't going to be any condemnation. The only justice is violence. they're animals and savages. The things they do to the girls... they deserve it.
>their buttholes were shredded
>they splashed water on his face five times
>he screamed for them to kill him
>guards laughed
>someone took pictures
look at you swinging this kind of horror around cuz you heard a rumor. they were innocent. doesn't that make you think about maybe limiting your bloodlust a tad?
were they really? I thought the case was pretty straight forward. I'm assuming I'll find out in a few pages they were innocent. Yes their innocence does change how I think about it. Now it makes me think about money and power and violence and our impotence against them and the horror and that we should go extinct because humanity is the only source of evil in the universe and without us evil wouldn't exist, which is for the best. Humanity has no redeeming qualities.
It's a spoiler but yeah. Holy reader response theory, Batman. You joined in the sadism!
post the page anon
ok one sec
I killed 3-5 people in Afghanistan.
if you can prove that you were in afghanistan, or at least in the military, I'll buy that you killed people while there.
also I'm interested in the story of how you killed them, whether it's fact or fiction. either way it'll be entertaining
holy shit.
well, what was killing people like?
You’re a god damn moron. All these photos are in the archive and it’s the one guy larping as the original ranger tard
You're being paranoid. I never left. Try to find that picture in an archive dumbass, I dare you.
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>no timestamperino
Srsly guise how hard is that?
My advice son is for you to post breasts or GTFO the frick out.
No one is buying your fake GI sundries. YWNBAR soldier.
I finished 2666 today. Its meh on the good side. Pls suggest something similar (except Delillo BC he's such a homosexual). I picked up this book BC I wanted something similar to Eco's Foucault pendulum. Too bad he's dead by now...
OK son here's your brownie points. Im proud of you being a bood boy, sneed. And , if you haven't already - today, pls pull yourself a good one.
Frick me I had forgotten about that part
>read the book
>forget the central horror scene
I could see forgetting Fate or Amalfitano but what
Not the whole part, the castration/torture scene in particular
> I think this book is giving me PTSD
Maybe you should head back to r/book with an opinion that moronic?
it's not retared, you are.
“Wahhh the big scary book triggered me!”
Sure thing homosexual, I’m definitely the moron here. You should consider killing yourself, you’re a soft little b***h.
You are taking me too seriously, champ. I was being facetious. I've killed people and seen rotting bodies but the violence in this novel is still impactful and relentless. Have you read the book? I doubt it. Keep chirping.
>I've killed people and seen rotting bodies but the violence in this novel is still impactful and relentless. Have you read the book? I doubt it. Keep chirping.
This prose isn't good at all. Should've shopped around for a better translator
filtered
I accept your concession
Natasha Wimmer's translation is fricking fire.
Bolaño's prose is not exceptional on the original Spanish either
>on the
Poor man's (aka mexican's) Blood meridian
Bolano is Chilean you racist POS!
i read this book about 2 years ago and it definitely left me feeling off and basically empty. Maybe gave me something like PTSD too because I didn't want to read for many months after that
though it wasn't the part about the murders that got me, it was what followed. Archimbaldi's story was my favorite part of reading the book, but at the same time there were pieces of it that made me feel sick, and by the time it was over I was disgusted by the world around me
I read this book earlier this year and I was left really unsettled and felt there was some darkness looming over me. A couple of months later I found a dead body and had a minor psychotic break when I related the experience to the part about the crimes and felt I was living in one of the passages from the section. Powerful stuff.
Just finished this book last night. It was alright, you're all pussies
what are your thoughts about it? besides it being alright. What is your interpretation?
I could've read 900 pages of the first story, I thought it was so good because I loved the characters. Archimboldi's story was great. I will be reading more by Bolano.
weird how the book revolves around sadism but actually reading de Sade is this liberating and self-actualizing experience for the critics
To be honest even though there is violence and undoubtedly sadism in the book. I never took that as its central theme, I'd say it focuses on a love for art and how that can drive us and how we can be lost in the pursuit. For instance when the "normal" critics beat up the taxi driver even though they are merely looking for the writer.
>I'd say it focuses on a love for art
The part about the murders is the sun and the other parts the planets.
Distant Star is short and good, if you don't feel like jumping into Savage Detectives
I really liked the part about the critics too. Now as im deep into the part about the murders I look back on them with a feeling of pity almost.
the Archimboldi jackoff scene is kino
>shots of vodka
>poetry about Dracula
>woman is bleeding for some reason
I guess it's menstruation and not...arousal to the point of ignoring physical damage from BWC
>le heckin nightmare disease XD
go back, kill ys, etc
Savage detectives were kind of funny.
This book is ... I guess all the gore is needed for the Netflix adaptation. I guess it just wouldn't sell without sufficient amount gore , normies just wouldn't buy it. Sad, sad situation. The book is kind of meh.
I got bored and stopped after I geeting to part III. I wanted the book to be about the academics.
Part III is very fun imo
The Welsh are swine, absolute swine. The English are swine, too, but not as bad as the Welsh. Though really they’re the same, but they make an effort not to seem it, and since they know how to pretend, they succeed. The Scots are bigger swine than the English and only a little better than the Welsh. The French are as bad as the Scots. The Italians are little swine. Little swine ready and willing to gobble up their own swine mother. The same can be said of the Austrians: swine, swine, swine. Never trust a Hungarian. Never trust a Bohemian. They’ll lick your hand while they devour your little finger. Never trust a israelite: he’ll eat your thumb and leave your hand covered in slobber. The Bavarians are also swine. When you talk to a Bavarian, son, make sure you keep your belt fastened tight. Better not to talk to Rhinelanders at all: before the wiener crows they’ll try to saw off your leg. The Poles look like chickens, but pluck four feathers and you’ll see they’ve got the skin of swine. Same with the Russians. They look like starving dogs but they’re really starving swine, swine that’ll eat anyone, without a second thought, without the slightest remorse. The Serbs are the same as the Russians, but miniature. They’re like swine disguised as Chihuahuas. Chihuahuas are tiny dogs, the size of a sparrow, that live in the north of Mexico and are seen in some American movies. Americans are swine, of course. And Canadians are big ruthless swine, although the worst swine from Canada are the French-Canadians, just as the worst swine from America are the Irish-American swine. The Turks are no better. They’re sodomite swine, like the Saxons and the Westphalians. All I can say about the Greeks is that they’re the same as the Turks: bald, sodomitic swine. The only people who aren’t swine are the Prussians. But Prussia no longer exists.
Kek, the book has been sitting in my room for months but this convinced me to read it.
part 4 > part 2 > part 1 > part 3
Part 1> part 5> part 2> part 4> part 3
What's wrong with Fate?
On re-read #5. Just started the part about Arcimboldi. It's one of those novels that stays with you for a while after finishing. Nazi Literature in the Americas is really good too. Formally inventive. Hilarious. Sort of the first window into the fictional literary universe he created.
Damn 5 reads that's crazy bro its a long ass book. So what does it all mean. How are the different sections related?
I got this for Father's Day and I have absolutely no clue what I'm in for.
you must have a cool kid.
I do, but he's only seven so really I have a cool wife who knows what to prompt him with when he asks what I'll want.
good for you (for real)
Looks fun.
Could you stop circlejerk and give me a low down why this is a good book. BC yeah its good but IMHO it doesn't measure up to all the fuss and noise it generates here on IQfy
I don't know what you want to hear. First of all it doesn't get much noise on lit, I have just been shilling it for a few weeks. It's ambitious, it's a modern novel that plays with form and powerful and devastating. The structure is complex, covering many styles, it's sophisticated and dark and funny. Do you just think everything sucks? It's the work of a literary genius and the only masterpiece written in the 21st century.
explain why you DONT think it's great.