Anything by Bolano falls in the MUST-READ category. This is a wonderful book to read... read it as if you are reading the last good book that you'll read before you die.
But my advice is, find another edition. This one is badly pasted, and for a book this size, you'll have pages coming off after one or two reads. Not recommended for a book which you want to return again and again.
I was a bit disappointed with the copy that I got: instead of a brand new book, I got one with yellowing pages ...