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GAF Book Club (Feb 2012) - "2666" by Roberto Bolaño
"2666 is as consummate a performance as any 900-page novel dare hope to be." -- Jonathan Lethem
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6372225-2666?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_book
2666 by Roberto Bolaño
Three academics on the trail of a reclusive German author; a New York reporter on his first Mexican assignment; a widowed philosopher; a police detective in love with an elusive older woman--these are among the searchers drawn to the border city of Santa Teresa, where over the course of a decade hundreds of women have disappeared.
In the words of The Washington Post, "With 2666, Roberto Bolaño joins the ambitious overachievers of the twentieth-century novel, those like Proust, Musil, Joyce, Gaddis, Pynchon, Fuentes, and Vollmann, who push the novel far past its conventional size and scope to encompass an entire era, deploying encyclopedic knowledge and stylistic verve to offer a grand, if sometimes idiosyncratic, summation of their culture and the novelist's place in it. Bolaño has joined the immortals."
Amazon Paperback
Guidelines:
Reading Milestones:
[Incoming]
Future Book Club Possibilities (In Tentative Order):
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Help! A Bear Is Eating Me! by Mykle Hansen
If on a winter's night, a traveler by Italo Calvino
The Long Ships by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson
The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Candide by Voltaire
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Devil In the White City by Erik Larson
[your recommendation here!]
Previous Book Club Threads:
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller (Jan 2012)
The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (December 2011)
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West, by Cormac McCarthy (Oct 2011)
The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov (Sep 2011)
The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas (Aug 2011)
Master and Commander, by Patrick O'Brian (July 2011)
The Happiness Project, by Gretchen Rubin (June 2011)
A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan (May 2011)
The Afghan Campaign, by Steven Pressfield (Apr 2011)
Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein (Mar 2011)
Flashman, by George MacDonald Fraser (Feb 2011)
"2666 is as consummate a performance as any 900-page novel dare hope to be." -- Jonathan Lethem
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6372225-2666?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_book
2666 by Roberto Bolaño
Three academics on the trail of a reclusive German author; a New York reporter on his first Mexican assignment; a widowed philosopher; a police detective in love with an elusive older woman--these are among the searchers drawn to the border city of Santa Teresa, where over the course of a decade hundreds of women have disappeared.
In the words of The Washington Post, "With 2666, Roberto Bolaño joins the ambitious overachievers of the twentieth-century novel, those like Proust, Musil, Joyce, Gaddis, Pynchon, Fuentes, and Vollmann, who push the novel far past its conventional size and scope to encompass an entire era, deploying encyclopedic knowledge and stylistic verve to offer a grand, if sometimes idiosyncratic, summation of their culture and the novelist's place in it. Bolaño has joined the immortals."
Amazon Paperback
Guidelines:
- For maximum fun and discussion, follow the milestones with the group. But feel free to read at your own pace if you prefer!
- If you read ahead and want to drop some knowledge, that's cool--but please use spoiler tags where appropriate! And be sure to indicate how far ahead the spoiler is. [spoiler]text goes here[/spoiler]
- Unspoilered discussion of anything through the latest milestone is allowed and encouraged. If you’re not caught up, read the thread at your own risk!
- Suggestions for the next book club selection are welcome at any time. Please vote on the next book once we're finished with this one. If no consensus is reached by the end of the month, we will go with the next book in the tentative order below.
Reading Milestones:
[Incoming]
Future Book Club Possibilities (In Tentative Order):
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Help! A Bear Is Eating Me! by Mykle Hansen
If on a winter's night, a traveler by Italo Calvino
The Long Ships by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson
The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Candide by Voltaire
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Devil In the White City by Erik Larson
[your recommendation here!]
Previous Book Club Threads:
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller (Jan 2012)
The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (December 2011)
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West, by Cormac McCarthy (Oct 2011)
The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov (Sep 2011)
The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas (Aug 2011)
Master and Commander, by Patrick O'Brian (July 2011)
The Happiness Project, by Gretchen Rubin (June 2011)
A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan (May 2011)
The Afghan Campaign, by Steven Pressfield (Apr 2011)
Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein (Mar 2011)
Flashman, by George MacDonald Fraser (Feb 2011)
