Selected Product: | The Savage Detectives: A Novel Paperback Author: Roberto Bolano Publisher: Picador Release Date: 2008-03-04 ISBN-10: 0312427484 ISBN-13: 9780312427481 List Price: $15.00 Average Customer Rating: | | Out Stealing Horses: A Novel ISBN-10: 0312427085 ISBN-13: 9780312427085 List Price:$14.00 Then We Came to the End: A Novel ISBN-10: 031601639X ISBN-13: 9780316016391 List Price:$13.99 Tree of Smoke: A Novel ISBN-10: 0312427743 ISBN-13: 9780312427740 List Price:$16.00 By Night in Chile ISBN-10: 0811215474 ISBN-13: 9780811215473 List Price:$13.95 |
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National Bestseller In this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Roberto Bolaño tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes--the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself--on a tragicomic quest through a darkening, entropic universe: our own. The Savage Detectives is an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age. you may go insane | Customer Rating: | | It's tough to write this review given that i've read, loved, and reviewed with profuse enthusiasm several other Bolano titles. but The Savage Detectives, I agree with several recent reviewers, lapses into spectacular and permanent tedium less than half-way through. Bolano has never lost me, until this book. When I reached page 400, knowing there were still a couple hundred pages left, I experienced something akin, I think, to torture? | The worst book I ever read! | Customer Rating: | I kept waiting for something to happen. But, it seemed the same thing just kept happening and it never really went anywhere. The drank, they smoked, they had sex, they thought about having sex, they smoked, they ate, they spouted poets' names as if it was the most important thing in the world, they stole books and wandered in some sort of depressed state. I didn't get the depressed part. I guess to be really really deep, you need to be depressed. I came to a point when I could take no more. I threw the book into the trash bin and felt compelled to write to the publisher. I was so amazed that this book is thought to be one of the ten best of last year. I admit that I'm not exactly a well read person, but I know the difference between entertainment, art and crap. This was crap. | Overrated, in my opinon | Customer Rating: | | This book tracks a handful of young, Latin American poets and their cohorts around the world and through time from the 1970s to the 1990s. Widely hailed by critics, The Savage Detectives has developed a devoted following among literary types. After suffering through all 500+ pages, I'm not ashamed to say I don't get the hype. The book seems self-indulgent and sloppy to me. There's very little narrative or character development to sustain the reader's interest. Instead of substance, the book is clogged with obscure poetry terms, small Mexican towns, down-and-out poets, and other annoying things that will leave many wondering "why bother?" I'm giving this book 1 star for its exhaustive use of an interesting structure, ½ star for some entertaining subplots and engaging characters, and ½ point for its overall hip tone, for a grand total of 2 stars out of 5. | Please enter a title for your review | Customer Rating: | | the bit at the start about the two rival poetry gangs was cool but when the most distinctive thing about the next 40 pages were contextless passages of erotica i thought it was safe to conclude that the author doesn't have much to say. the central character's sensitive dork persona probably seemed less like a cliche when the book was written. characters relationships are also presented vaguely, progressing alternatingly in crawls and leaps which left me with little understanding of where anyone stood in relation to anyone else. | Strange and chaotic book | Customer Rating: | First of all if you are trying to grasp Bolaño I would recommend by far 2666 (Narrativas Hispanicas) (Paperback)2666: A Novel, an excellent novel. I read the Spanish version and the Mexican slang all over the novel can be sometimes overwhelming. The story is chaotic nevertheless amusing. But It's all you get so be prepared. |
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