I don't even know where to begin this review... it feels like I just spent a month traveling across the globe, peering into the lives of many, many people. I'm not quite exhausted, however - I'm almost on the brink of reading it over again, not only to more closely notice all the ways in which Bolano intricately links the five parts of his novel with characters and recurring motifs, but also to immerse myself in the lovely, long sentences and dreamy tangents that make it up. And someday I probably will, and return to the characters I loved, the ones that scared me, and to the parts in which I smiled while reading, and those which made me cringe in feelings of fear and foreboding. Because in snippets, 2666 can be funny and mystical and positive - but overall, the story is sad, and by the final pages all those niceties seem nearly tragic in retrospect. I thoroughly loved the novel, and can't wait to come back in a year or few to read it again.