Discussions about Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude

mary m said:

“I absolutely loved this book.”

posted 13 days ago

steve said:

“To be frankly.... it's wasting of time to read even one page of this novel. i don't know how Gabriel Garcia written a such novel like this. i had forced my self to finish it all and i did. And therefore keep your money and time in something more value as Agatha's or brown's ones.”

posted Saturday, July 26 2008 ( | view 1 reply )

vinayak10 said:

“I bought it quite a few months ago. This is the fisrt book I am not able to read in one sitting. Normally when you get in a book you want to finish it off as early as possible. This one I am not getting in. Language is lucid, but somehow , it is just not making any dent in the soul. I intend to finish it though. As of now... not impressed at all.”

posted Friday, July 11 2008 ( | view 1 reply )

cognac h said:

“marquez being such a beguiling writer with a fecund imagination , makes this a delightful read .A story that spans and is intertwined with six generations and set in the americas does have some very profound moments .”

posted Tuesday, July 8 2008

ctmock said:

“Biblical connections?”

posted Monday, July 7 2008

mark in doha said:

“I used to say this was the second best book in the world. After the inevitable question as to which was the best, I'd answer "The Bible, of course!" This is not exactly a joke, as the Bible is a collection of stories and narratives that make a foundation to our Western consciousness. I'm not talking about the literal truth or otherwise of the Bible here, but the sort of structures set up in the stories, the moral underpinnings and the grand overarching narrative of fall and redemption. Anyway, having said all that, I thought that Marquez's book had almost the same force of myth and resonance.I still love it, and many of his other books too, especially "Love in a Time of Cholera.””

posted Wednesday, June 4 2008 ( | view 1 reply )

aisha a said:

“With the six generations of the Buendia family, it’s like reading six books bound into one! It is not an ordinary fiction that an ordinary man can write. Hey, it’s Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, so what do you expect? It is an epic tale about generations, yet it describes the solitary journey of each character, which reveals a kind surrealistic world of fantasy which flares up one's imagination to a great extent. The point that everything runs around in a circle within the family is sooo true. It is a very strange story of relationships with the back drop of tropical Latin America.”

posted Thursday, May 1 2008

a m i r h o s s e i n said:

“THIS BOOK WAS ONE OF THE LITURICAL BOOKS THAT BLOWS ME TO LITURE.”

posted Saturday, April 12 2008

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posted Wednesday, March 26 2008

barbie t said:

“Disappointed. Found the beginning alright but had a hard time getting through the end. Felt very repetitive and unecessarily and uninterestingly fantastical”

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel García Márquez

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