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Title: One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
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| One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) by Harper Perennial Modern Classics What 1000 nights would like to be. | .
Ive read this book two times in a space of a year. I can tell that the second time Ive read it, on the original language it was written, Ive liked the story better than the first one.
then i went through the book with the impression that the author never lets the history gets down from the first paragraph to the last, wich I hadnt on the first time I`ve read it. This usualy happens on many great writting at some point. But also with the impression that the charachters are not very personal... perhaps this impersonality, also present on the similarity of names, is a necessary condition of this particular narrative and not a fault of its own.
I think the experience is rewarding the efford of going through this half a thousand pages twice. The first time one reads it, one might get entangled on the multitude of personages with similar names and the spam of time it ranges.
But the author is very crafty and very often makes reference to former and future events relating them, so one never gets lost and always feels on the center of the story.
this also gives the impression of unity that so many minute events would make rather etherogeneus, like the storyes of 1000 nights.
I would like to suggest people to read it two times, and what would help but it is not absolute necessary, have a paper at hand and draw a genealogical line as the personages appears through the narative.
also look for Mario Vargas Llosa's essay on this book. There one can get an account of many levels of interpretation of this tale wich is a fary tale, a cronic, a history study and a romance.
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| | One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) by Harper Perennial Modern Classics Quite simply, the best novel I have ever read | | Garcia Marquez creates a masterpiece in which a family's legacy and a town's history are documented in such magestic detail that ultimately connect and sympathize with the way everything breaks down. Apparently, things are made by man don't last forever, but this story definitely should. This is the type of book that many authors would sell crack to babies to write. It's so wonderfully crafted that it's one of the few books I've ever read where I'm totally fine with wasting hours in a day reading it. And i could easily read every single word from cover to cover again and again. 100 Years should be the book that you first recommend to anyone looking for great fiction, it's on an entirely other level. | | One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) by Harper Perennial Modern Classics What a drag! | I have to read this book for a Great Books meeting in two weeks, but I don't think I can finish it. It took me six weeks to get halfway through it because it is so incredibly boring that I have a hard time motivating myself to pick it back up after putting it down.
The characters range from unengaging to infuriating, their multitude and the fact that most of them have very similar names is confusing (especially since the story jumps back and forth in time), and their actions are often revolting (what a bunch of spineless, brainless women, and let's not even think about the mucho men!).
I find the book thoroughly unentertaining and pointless. What is the author trying to say? Is there a message somewhere? What kind of story is this supposed to be? Since it contains surreal things like flying carpets and quasi-immortal people, I'm guessing it's some sort of fairytale. If it is, all I can say is that the Brothers Grimm wrote better fairytales than this guy! | | One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) by Harper Perennial Modern Classics wow | To make of a family chronicle compelling drama is a feat of genius many have tried but only a few have managed to make it one's worthwhile to go on about it like this. All of man's folly is swiftly conveyed by a turn of a phrase or a twist of the plot here. Not a word is out of place.
It would seem to me the detractors object as everyone (in the book) is doomed to oblivion. "The interim is mine," says Hamlet and so the Buendias live out their lives from moment to moment with no thoughts of where they come from nor of where they're going. To do so at the expense of everyday affairs is to court dementia and insanity a la Jose Arcadio Buendia restrained to the chestnut tree.
They are many illusions, secured happiness being at the very top of that list. Indeed to have to work so hard to obtain something so elusive is perhaps the greatest folly of all. Ergo take a page from the Buendias and save one's strength for that which matters most, i.e. one's peace of mind without which happiness counts for very little.
| | One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) by Harper Perennial Modern Classics Enough is Enough | | Just recently, I decided to give this book a second chance. Like other reviewers here, I hardly ever give up on a book. But about 30 pages into the SECOND attempt, I am feeling exhausted. All of the bright and shiny books on my bookshelves have never looked so good at this point. So I came here, read the reviews and feel better. I think I can put this book away and be at peace with not appreciating it. I will say, some of the words Marquez uses- his descriptions, seem to have been created especially for the world that exists within this book. But is the trip worth it? I have decided that it is not. Thank you all for helping me be at peace with NOT completing this novel. | | One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) by Harper Perennial Modern Classics Product Description | One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the BuendÃa family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women -- brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul -- this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction. |
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