One Hundred Years of Solitude

Posted on 01 April 2018 by Gabriel García Márquez

Book Jacket Status Jacketed The brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells the story of the Buendia family, and chronicles the irreconcilable conflict between the desire for solitude and the need for love in rich, imaginative prose that has come to define an entire genre known as magical realism. New Read Books One Hundred Years of Solitude author Gabriel García Márquez – kino-fada.fr Revised 28 March 2012 Huh Oh Oh, man Wow.I just had theweirdestdream.There was this little town, right And everybody had, like, the same two names And there was this guy who lived under a tree and a lady who ate dirt and some other guy who just made little gold fishes all the time And sometimes it rained and sometimes it didn t, and and there were fire ants everywhere, and some girl got carried off into the sky by her laundry Wow That was messed up.I need some coffee.The was roughly ho Revised 28 March 2012 Huh Oh Oh, man Wow.I just had theweirdestdream.There was this little town, right And everybody had, like, the same two names And there was this guy who lived under a tree and a lady who ate dirt and some other guy who just made little gold fishes all the time And sometimes it rained and sometimes it didn t, and and there were fire ants everywhere, and some girl got carried off into the sky by her laundry Wow That was messed up.I need some coffee.The was roughly how I felt after reading this book This is really the only time I ve ever read a book and thought, You know, this book would be awesome if I were stoned And I don t even know if being stoned works on books that way.Gabriel Garcia Marquez which is such a fun...I guarantee that 95% of you will hate this book, and at least 70% of you will hate it enough to not finish it, but I loved it Guess I was just in the mood for it Here s how it breaks down AMAZING THINGS I can literally feel new wrinkles spreading across the surface of my brain when I read this guy He s so wicked smart that there s no chance he s completely sane His adjectives and descriptions are 100% PERFECT, and yet entirely nonsensical After reading three chapters, it starts making sens I guarantee that 95% of you will hate this book, and at least 70% of you will hate it enough to not finish it, but I loved it Guess I was just in the mood for it Here s how it breaks down AMAZING THINGS I can literally feel new wrinkles spreading across the surface of my brain when I read this guy He s so wicked smart that there s no chance he s completely sane His adjectives and descriptions are 100% PERFECT, and yet entirely nonsensical After reading three chap...So I know that I m supposed to like this book because it is a classic and by the same author who wrote Love in the Time of Cholera Unfortunately, I just think it is unbelievably boring with a jagged plot that seems interminable Sure, the language is interesting and the first line is the stuff of University English courses Sometimes I think books get tagged with the classic label because some academics read them and didn t understand and so they hailed these books as genius These same acade So I know that I m supposed to like this book because it is a classic and by the same author who wrote Love in the Time of Cholera Unfortunately, I just think it is unbelievably boring with a jagged plot that seems interminable Sure, the language is interesting and the first line is the stuff of University English courses Sometimes I think books get tagged with the classic label because some academics read them and didn t understand and so they hailed these books as genius These same academics then make a sport of looking down their noses at readers who don t like these books for the very same reasons If this all sounds too specific, yes I had this conversation with a professor of mine.I know that other people love this book andpower to them, I ve tried to read it all the way through three different times and never made it past 250 pages before I get so bored keeping...More like A Hundred Years of Torture I read this partly in a misguided attempt to expand my literary horizons and partly because my uncle was a big fan of Gabriel Garcia Marquez Then again, he also used to re read Ulysses for fun, which just goes to show that you should never take book advice from someone whose IQ isthan 30 points higher than your own.I have patience for a lot of excesses, like verbiage and chocolate, but not for 5000 pages featuring three generations of people with the More like A Hundred Years of Torture I read this partly in a misguided attempt to expand my literary horizons and partly because my uncle was a big fan of Gabriel Garcia Marquez Then again, he also used to re read Ulysses for fun, which just goes to show that you should never take book advice from someone whose IQ isthan 30 points higher than your own.I have patience for a lot of excesses, like verbiage and chocolate, bu...25 45 505 , , , , ,, , R I P Gabriel Marcus Your Magical Realism will always enchanting and illuminating our hearts , will defeat the dirty realism that we unfortunately stuck in. Your magical words and novels will be read foreveryou re enchanted 24 2014 2 2014 , ,_ _ ,,, , ,_ _ ,,, 500 , _ _500 , ,, _ _ 32 magical realism i remember the day i stopped watching cartoons an episode of thundercats in which a few of the cats were trapped in some kind of superbubble thing and it hit me that, being cartoons, the characters could just be erased and re drawn outside the bubble or could just fly away or tunnel their way out or teleport or do whatever, really, they wanted afterall they were line and color in a world of line and color now this applies to any work of fiction i mean, Cervantes could ve just written i remember the day i stopped watching cartoons an episode of thundercats in which a few of the cats were trapped in some kind of superbubble thing and it hit me that, being cartoons, the characters could just be erased and re drawn outside the bubble or could just fly away or tunnel their way out or teleport or do whatever, really, they wanted afterall they were line and color in a world of line and color now this applies to any work of fiction i mean, Cervantes could ve just written Don Quixote out of any perilous situation, but it just felt different with a lowest common denominator cartoon it felt that adherence to reality reality as defined within the world of the cartoon wasn t a top priority this ended my cartoon watching days and i ve pored over it in the years that followed was it a severe lack or an overabundence of imagination that made it so that while all my friends were digging s...What is your favourite book, mum How many times have my children asked me that, growing up with a mother who spends most of her time reading to them, alone, for work, for pleasure or looking for new books in bookstores wherever we happen to be I can t answer that, there are so many books I love, and in different ways Just name one that comes to mind And I said, without really knowing why, and without thi...One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a tremendous piece of literature It s not an easy read You re not going to turn its pages like you would the latest John Grisham novel, or The DaVinci Code You have to read each page, soaking up every word, immersing yourself in the imagery Mr Marquez says that he tells the story as his grandmother used to tell stories to him with a brick face That s useful to remember while reading, because that is certainly the tone the book tak One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a tremendous piece of literature It s not an easy read You re not going to turn its pages like you would the latest John Grisham novel, or The DaVinci Code You have to read each page, soaking up every word, immersing yourself in the im...

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01 April 2018

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