I finally finished 2666 last night after having it sit on my desk since last summer, and maybe starting to read it a couple of months ago.

While I was reading it I found it hard to enjoy as you might enjoy a more traditional novel. I wouldn’t call it a page-turner. It was a difficult read: digressions, references that were flying past me, sentences that would run for pages, masses of solid text. However, even if I wasn’t understanding everything I was seeing, there was at least something to try and understand. Once I got near the end I started reading bits from near the beginning, and I could actually imagine reading it a second time to actually get more out of it.

I didn’t realize The Part About the Crimes was actually based in reality until after I was finished, and was disturbed.

I wonder what reading it in Spanish would’ve been like. I will likely read his other books.