Hector’s Reviews > 2666 > Status Update

Dude this is progression is slow. Interestingly enough the different parts seem to be almost fully standalone and only some small connections are there. hopefully the story starts to become more streamlined because most of the text, even though it makes it more real and organic, could be removed and we could have gotten to were we are at in about 150 pages and not 450... I hope things start to pick up.

Finished the part about fate and I am starting the part about the crimes. Slowly the book has guided me to the main section and now the main cast has fully been introduced and it is now prepared to display the main plot. This book is taking me longer to read than expected it almost feels like it is making me slow down and take my time with it. Well onto the next section time to learn what's really going on.

Amalfitano part has my brain constantly engaged trying to unravel the web of its stories. There is just so many names, cultures, and events that are completely foreign to me and I am loosing sense of where reality and fiction meet. This I have to admit is fun and I am enjoying it a lot. One thing I am theorizing is that Amalfitano voice is actually telepathy he is having with Archimboldi. Also his wife did him dirty.

With the first part complete the search for Archimboldi continues, a love triangle ends in an unexpected twist, and the story slowly develops organically overtime. We are finally in the town of Santa Teresa; The main location and fictional town where all the murders are happening.

Good book but slow progress. Here is an example of just why this book is taking me so long to read:
"his novels and stories, that is, seemed completely foreign, a shapeless and mysterious verbal mass, something that appeared and disappeared capriciously, literally a pretext, a false door, a murderers alias, a hotel bathtub full of amniotic liquid in which he, would end up committing suicide for no reason"

Who the hell is this mystical writer that goes by the name of Benno Vo Archimboldi? KEKW this book is dense and a slow burn and that is currently the main interest to the plot. It is how the four critics found themselves and how their relationships blossom chasing after this mysterious writer. I can tell this is going to be a good story from the small sprinkle of literary genius found in some paragraphs.