2666

English language

Published Jan. 4, 2008 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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4 stars (8 reviews)

2 editions

Review of '2666' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

This is I'm sure a very literate and well written book but it just became too much hard work.
I can take the post-modernist view ( "Dorian" by Will Self ) of the world and don't wear rose-tinted glasses, (I loved "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy), but the endless list of rapes and murders was not my cup of meat.
If this will lead to the solving of some of these murders ( or the prevention of new ones) then it's worth anybody's distaste, but I don't think it will...review fades to ambiguity and obscurity...