This is an interesting quote from 2666 by Roberto Bolano: "Emilio Garibay.....thougth it was precisly because he was an atheist that he didn't read anymore. Not reading , it might be said, was the highest expression of atheism or at least of atheism as he conceived of it. If you don't believe in God, how do you believe in a fucking book? he asked himself." (p. 550)