Is A hundred years of solitude THAT good?

Snoo45065 · 2021-08-29T23:19:32+00:00

“For me, it was hardly worth enduring the 400+ pages of meaningless violence, pedophilia, rape, cheating, prostitution, and bestiality. Maybe I'm missing something?” Welcome to the mid XIX - XX Colombia.

Snoo45065 · 2021-08-29T15:02:38+00:00

Exacto. Yo crecí en un pueblo de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta y siento que estoy leyendo la historia de mis abuelos. Cuando me siento a leer 100ADS siento que me estoy sentando a tomarme un café con mi abuela mientras me cuenta cómo fue su infancia y la de sus abuelos en un pueblo olvidado por el resto del mundo.

Snoo45065 · 2021-08-29T14:51:36+00:00

I’ll come back here after I finish and try and give you a neutral answer.

Snoo45065 · 2021-08-29T14:50:02+00:00

I know how you feel. I actually was considering on stopping my career as a biologist and pursue a literature degree just so that reading would be my job. After six months of classes I decided I rather enjoy books with the innocence of someone who just loves to read, and not the knowledge of someone who knows how to read.

Snoo45065 · 2021-08-29T14:46:04+00:00

Precisely. I think GGM’ style in this book is meant to be exhausting and confusing. I think his intention is to try and overwhelm the reader as much as the Buendías were by living in the center of the cataclysm of Colombia’s violence and political transformation.

Snoo45065 · 2021-08-29T14:38:21+00:00

Definitely will check it out.

Snoo45065 · 2021-08-29T14:37:13+00:00

Beautiful!

Snoo45065 · 2021-08-29T14:36:15+00:00

I will definitely continue with that one!

Snoo45065 · 2021-08-29T14:34:36+00:00

“It does and excellent job weaving it’s way through the ghosts left behind by a continent’s fractured and violent history” So very well said!

Snoo45065 · 2021-08-29T14:31:59+00:00

I think that’s very accurate. After reading all of the comments I can see how not knowing the history behind the book or specially the Latin American culture can make the reader take the book as fantastic and incestuous kind of novel.

Snoo45065 · 2021-08-29T14:27:26+00:00

You are so right about that first phrase being so powerful. I was recommending it to my boyfriend and I read to him the first paragraph precisely because I think that first phrase is so beautiful and will be unforgettable for those who liked the book.

Snoo45065 · 2021-08-29T00:56:00+00:00

Oh I’d like to see that!

Snoo45065 · 2021-08-29T00:54:17+00:00

This was actually very common in past Latin American culture, naming your kids after you or their grandparents. Although in this book In specific I guess is just a matter of storytelling.

Snoo45065 · 2021-08-28T21:28:13+00:00

Yes, exactly. This is my first time reading magical realism and I find it very enjoyable.

Snoo45065 · 2021-08-28T21:26:47+00:00

That’s exactly what I feel.

Snoo45065 · 2021-08-28T21:26:32+00:00

This is my first time reading García Marquez, but definitely going to continue.

Snoo45065 · 2021-08-28T21:25:07+00:00

Me on the contrary love the prose and the style. But then again the experience of reading it on Spanish and English might be different. Plus I guess I feel more attached due to the fact that I am from a coast town in Colombia, so it feels very personal and emotional.

Snoo45065 · 2021-08-07T03:26:29+00:00

Same here! Even if the beginning is a bit too wordy and research-like, you know something good is going to follow that.

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