I just finished Roberto Bolano's 2666 last night and I'm bursting to talk about it!  Who has read it?  What did you think? 

Here are some possible things we could discuss (for starters):
--issues surrounding the cohesion of the five sections:  Was it right to contravene Bolano's wish that the novel be published as five separate novels?  Does that matter?  Some critics have found the five sections to be too fragmented to produce a satisfying novel.  Do you agree?  Does this novel (as the "Note to the First Edition" by Ignacio Echevarria suggests) really have an "open structure"?
--issues around the "unfinished" nature of the novel:  What are we to make of the supposed "last line" of the novel as per Bolano's notes (as quoted in the "Note to the First Edition")?  To what extent should we consider this novel to be finished?  How does that affect our reading?
--issues of temporality, especially how the five sections relate to each other in time.       

Other possible approaches to the novel:
--critique of neoliberal globalisation.
--indictment of Mexican culture:
        "The clerk shrugged and said that all of Mexico was a collage of diverse and wide-ranging homages. 
        'Every single thing in this country is an homage to everything in the world, even the things that haven't happened yet,' he said." (339)
--meditation on exile:
        "Exile must be a terrible thing," said Norton sympathetically.
        "Actually," said Amalfitano, "now I see it as a natural movement, something that, in its own way, helps to abolish fate, or what is                 generally thought of as fate."
        "But exile," said Pelletier, "is full of inconveniences, of skips and breaks that essentially keep recurring and interfere with anything             you try to do that's important."
        "That's just what I mean by abolishing fate," said Amalfitano. (117)
--metaphysical detective novel

Please forgive the scattered and schematic nature of these observations/questions.  I could use some help making sense of this enormous novel.