AllSubNoDub wrote:So you're reading 2666 after only reading 4 books, one of which you didn't finish, and one graded reader? Or was this just the recent list (you said you've been learning for 15 years)? If it's the former, I would assume you must have read lots of non-fiction, did lots of direct vocabulary study, and/or intensively read/studied the books you have read. How is your vocabulary coverage?
1. Yes, I do. I'm about to finish the first book. I don't find it difficult so far, although the other books in it might be harder to understand. I've read some pages from other novels as well, and decided to get back to them later, because I found them difficult. One example is Rayuela. In my opinion 2666 is not a very difficult book, especially not from a linguistic (vocabulary) point of view.
2. I haven't read any non-fiction. I've been reading El País on and off for years though. I've studied a lot of course books from Difusión. I have no idea about my vocabulary coverage, but at the DELE C2 mocks tests I've done so far I usually had pretty good results. I meet new words regularly, but I can infer their meaning from the text. Rayuela is the only example I can give you that really gave me the feeling that I only understand the gist of it.