Posted by Rizwan on 9/1/2012, 12:33:03, in reply to "Re: The Savage Detectives"
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Perhaps, Guillermo, you can check out Cafe La Habana, as well. Bolano calls it Cafe Quito in the novel, and it was apparently his favorite place to hang out and write while he lived in Mexico City.
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: I'm still working on it, and so far so good. Some of the
: bookstores mentioned in the book are still there:
: Libreria del Sotano (The Basement Bookstore) is right
: there on Juarez Ave., in the very downtown. Libreria
: Lizardi is also there on Donceles St., also in
: downtown, a used books store. Of the rest, I can't
: identify any of them, most likely they are gone, as
: Downtown experienced a sharp decline in its economic
: and touristic fortunes and has only very recently
: experienced a recovery.
:
: It's fun to read a book in which one can feel the
: city, visualize the scenes, travel along with the
: characters as they walk the city. All that's happening
: so far occurred ten years before I arrived to the city
: from my hometown.
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: I finished it last night, reading the last 200+ pages
: in
: a single day because I was so caught up in it. I think
: it's a great novel, but I can also see how it wouldn't
: be to everyone's taste.
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: Until page 60, there are quite a few book stores are
: mentioned. They are in the habit of stealing books
: from these bookstores. (There is something to be said
: about stealing books. Appearantly Bolano himself stole
: most of his reading materials.)
:
: Sterling, I know what you mean about having enough
: Bolano for the rest of your life. And, 2666 is a
: 1100-page tome, as I read on the internet.
:
: I am not really getting the point of Savage
: Detectives. I find it amusing and interesting but way
: too much "nothing."
:
: I read the introduction, that was informative.
:
: Lale
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