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Publisher : SparkNotes
Publication Date : 2002 07 15
>> One hunded years is but an Instant
One Hundred Years of Solitude felt a bit dense at times and then there where times when you couldn t put the book down the way G G Marquez tells the story is just wonderful he makes time go not in a linear sort of way but as what felt in a branching kind of style
Sometimes I needed to stop reading because of work and when I d get back to it in some days it felt really different and sometimes confusing till about the 2nd half this because so many things are going on in the town of Macondo and the names where very similar at times I believe this is either the most bothersome thing or the most entertaining and helpful thing to the complex story depending on your memory of the story
I can t recommend reading the book twice or three times a week I highly RECOMEND reading it at least a bit every day When I finished It after about a month or so I felt that I had missed out on some interesting people moments and emotions not because the book is complicated to fallow but because one needs to sort of take everything in as one reads and when you put the book down for a few days and then pick it up it feels that the story lost the intensity that it had mainly because the level of retention toward different events that is required if planning to understand the mood of the moment There so many things one needs to keep in mind as this Illusion of time progresses
I m planning on reading it again when I get the chance
P S One of my favorite things was the amount of Foreshadowing used at times it even felt that the writer could be intentionally trying to confuse or deceive and then one realizes that it was all very essential for the gravity of the story
>> A Century of Solitude
I found this book a little difficult getting started due to the way the author seems to skip around
and introduces so many new characters but after about a third through the book I began to get into it
The over all scope of the novel and the intimate details of emotions and feelings gives the story a real
sense of feeling It was a slow read as I kept going back and forth with it for about four weeks but I am
happy to have read it and now have a better understanding of another place and another culture
>> Nothing short of great
The novel opens with one of literature s greatest leads Many years later as he faced the firing squad and never lets up through the four hundred some odd pages that follow People will often say about an author There s nobody like them and that s especially true for Garcia Marquez This isn t a traditional novel and I can t guarantee you ll love it Like a lot of great Latin America fiction it just isn t for some people However if you love Latin American writers and for some reason haven t read Marquz s masterpiece I recommend you do so as soon as possible The novels plot in so much as it has a plot is documenting a family the Buendia s over a period of one hundred years The family is imperfect and dysfunctional to say the least but are also very powerfully described and by the end you will know them so well you ll feel as if you know them personally
I would also recommend getting the Everyman s library version of this book It is well bound beautiful and will hold together And I don t know if other versions have this or not but it has a Buendia family tree at the beginning which is helpful for telling apart characters as their names are often nearly identical As one review put it it leaves you with a pleasant exhaustion that only very great novels provide There are very few books I ve enjoyed as much as this one and I recommend you at least give it a shot Even if you put it down for a while I m willing to bet you will be drawn back to it before long It s interesting and well written with all of the magic you d expect from a Latin American great and it s definitely worth a read
