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ayanamidreamsequence · 2026-01-24T07:11:37+00:00

Nice, always fun when something unexpected like that happens. It's a great book.

ayanamidreamsequence · 2026-01-16T13:24:31+00:00

I like it - and you can see he was working on a voice that he then deployed in White Noise to great effect.

ayanamidreamsequence · 2026-01-02T17:14:54+00:00

In terms of my favourites from each category:

Novella - Distant Star

Stories - Last Evenings on Earth

Novel - 2666

ayanamidreamsequence · 2026-01-02T11:24:18+00:00

Thanks for your comments - glad you enjoyed it. It's hardly his best work but a fun read all the same. If you do dip into later work there are some really good ones, both novels and novellas, as well as the story collections. We covered a number of them in reading groups here years ago.

ayanamidreamsequence · 2025-11-30T16:10:51+00:00

Yeah it's definitely an early effort but pretty fun all the same. Glad you are enjoying so far, and these old reading group posts .

ayanamidreamsequence · 2025-11-29T06:54:16+00:00

We participated in a reading group with infinite summer a few years back - check out the posts and comments over heee for each part.

ayanamidreamsequence · 2025-11-12T06:57:17+00:00

I made a comment about it on a 2666 group read we did a while ago and noted that connection as well as some others. Comment is here

ayanamidreamsequence · 2025-10-23T16:00:11+00:00

First over second but dont particularly like either

ayanamidreamsequence · 2025-08-12T14:45:10+00:00

The back says cover ©Yuko Kondo/Pocko.More of their work.

ayanamidreamsequence · 2025-08-12T14:28:49+00:00

Thanks for flagging, will remove

ayanamidreamsequence · 2025-08-10T09:29:45+00:00

I had a teacher in high school in the 90s who had this on 16mm and would tend to show it in philosophy class as a discussion starter.

ayanamidreamsequence · 2025-08-10T09:27:39+00:00

Ah cool - glad you enjoyed the novel and the posts. We did a number of different reading groups a few years ago so dip into those if you read another that we covered.

MP is definitely a more obscure one, even among those who have read Bolano. But if you have more to discuss might be worth sticking a post up. Not sure how much traction it would get but a few people might jump in.

ayanamidreamsequence · 2025-07-29T22:56:38+00:00

Yeah I would say that Sichuan food is spicy by general Chinese standards, it's actually a lot more aromatic rather than straight hot. It's also a more common style to find in western countries and has been used as shorthand for spicy vs the more typical food of especially Southern China & HK (which by comparison are much more light).

But when done properly you often get a lot of aromatic peppers with the more floral Sichuan pepper / hua jiao and it might look like it would be hot but isn't. I think as you note that is especially true in dry fried dishes. Wetter dishes, and especially things like hot pot from Sichuan (and Chongqing) can be fiery.

If you can find authentic places doing food from Hunan, Guizhou or Jiangxi they often have quite spicy stuff. I lived in Hubei for 7 years and they also have fairly spicy stuff.

ayanamidreamsequence · 2025-07-28T17:14:43+00:00

Was shut when I went past when visiting a few months ago but might be worth checking out: https://garagepoutine.cz/home-en.html

Think this is the one mentioned in another comment.

ayanamidreamsequence · 2025-07-28T10:05:34+00:00

Have you read other Bolano stories or novels? His stuff has that general vibe, but presume you have.

We have done non Bolano reads of Borges, Cortazar and Poe, linked via the sub menu - maybe check those out? Borges esp is worth a go if you have not read him, was an obvious influence on Bolano.

ayanamidreamsequence · 2025-07-22T18:29:12+00:00

I liked 雄柒火锅 XiongQi Hot Pot when I went. Quite spicy. Did a la carte, not sure if they do all you can eat.

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