The savage detectives review6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() My main differing reaction upon a second read is that I genuinely liked it. ![]() My first review of the book is still pretty sufficient, and if you’re looking for a description or a rundown of plot points please refer to that (yes, I’m going to be exactly that lazy). Even so, my reaction to the book once I finished it was mixed. I could relate to Juan Garcia Madero’s emotions as he plunged into the world of visceral realism, and rather wished that I had my own set of weird, poetry-loving bums to run round a city with. I had just discovered puzzle novels, and was only beginning to grasp that I loved them. I was annoying everyone around me by peering over their shoulders and taking notes on the books in their hands, and loudly exclaiming over CORTAZAR! and WOOLF! as though I was the first person in the world to discover them. ![]() I was an eager and bright-eyed young reader who had just stumbled across the expansive world of Latin American lit, among many other literary worlds. When I read this for the first time in November of 2009, I had a lot in common with Juan Garcia Madero, the journal-keeping 17-year-old narrator of the 1st and 3rd parts of the novel. ![]()
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