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Summary: a major classic
Review: i felt i had to put my two cents in. I read this book several years ago and still remember the magical way the story unfolded. Do Not Miss Out. You will long remember a place and people who existed in Gabe's wonderful imagination. The book is a rare gift of words.
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Summary: A mind trip
Review: This book has a magic of its own. From the very beginning a mysterious world starts to unfold amid the complexity and hilarious nature of the characters. Laughter pangs will occur if you read this book with an open yet fucused mind. A masterpiece that should be read by people from all walks of life, for its depths are deeper that they seem.An opportunity to immerse yourself in a world that goes beyond the imaginable.
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Summary: Buy a copy!
Review: One has to be in the proper frame of mind to read this. Hence, after several "false starts" (caused by the extraordinarily long sentences, convoluted paragraphs and compounded with severe irritation that the names the characters are identical), I finally started reading this book properly four days ago and could not put it down until last night.And what a great experience this book is. With unforgettable characters, set against a setting fertile with imagination. The richness of the plot entices and weaves the reader into a rich, magical world, and the reader's definition of reality is temporarily suspended in the pages of this masterpiece. I would not recommend this book to everyone, only to those who can appreciate and recognise truly great literature, and those with the patience and forebearance to succumb to the unlikely, passionate, warped, tragic, amusing and wonderful world conjured by Marquez.
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Summary: Six generations of extremely odd tales
Review: Who is experiencing 100 years of solitude? The people who march off into the jungle and establish the village of Macondo, a town isolated for 100 years until its destruction. These people include 6 generations of the Buendia family. We meet pioneer Jose Arcadio Buendia who leads his people to the spot, and Colonel Aureliano Buendia who leads a left wing revolution in the outer world. We also meet a number of other Buendias named Jose Arcadio and Aureliano. The women are remarkable. Pioneer wife Ursula lives a supernaturally long life, from the superstitious wife of Jose Arcadio who fears that her children will be born with tails, to the Biblically old lady who is treated like a toy by the little children of the house. The book's biggest drawback for me is its sprawling confusion. Michener has done cross-generational books like Hawaii that are direct, serious, sensible. Where Michener's work could be compared to a lifelike painter like Titian, Marquez is more of a Picasso.
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Summary: Incredible novel
Review: I had never read any of Marquez's works before I read this novel as an English assignment. Once I actually got into the novel, I found myself stuck inside the village of Macondo day and night, until I finished the book. The writing, while incredibly descriptive and beautiful, tends to leave me wondering where the end of the sentence is. Another drawback is that you can't find anything in the novel, unless it's the ending, which is a bit unnerving in and of itself. However, I loved the way Marquez wove us in and out of reality, playing on our senses, presenting us with incredible feats of magic while we readers sat there, drinking it all in like greedy children.
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Summary: I LOVED IT!
Review: This is an excellent book. I recommend it to anyone. The sensitivity that Marquez puts in this novel really takes you to the place and the situations lived by the characters in the book. I have read this book two times already and just as others say, "You always find something new everytime you read it over again." It really is one of the best books of the century.
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Summary: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Review: This book has one of the finest desriptions and analysis of literature one can find in any author on its highly desciptive work of the Buendia family and, so called, Mocondo.........but really, the nobel prize for literature for 400+ pages of such bore and repetitiveness. I have also read some of the reviews on this page and must conclude that either readers have terribly boring lives, that this kind of literature can be so compelling with the surreal and completely over exaggerated descriptive material. Nobel Prize..huh..make a good soap opera.
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Summary: I Love this author's WAY of writing
Review: First I read "Love in the Time of Cholera". That book I keep always open ready for the moment. So I was curious to read an earlier book by Marquez. Maybe it is also a great book, but after "Love.." I found it disturbing mainly because of its fantacy and lack of clarity by comparison. If you go for mystery and underlying meanings and lots and lots of characters then this is for you. Marquez paints vivid word pictures. but I think he grew wonderfully after he wrote 100 years of Solitude. Maybe he emerged out of solitude to find "Love"!
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Summary: If You Only Read One Book...
Review: this is the one. However, my recommendation comes with a caveot. Make sure you have enough time to sit and read it over three of four days. The longer it takes to read, the more of the story and the characters you will forget, the less the book will touch you. One of the toughest english teachers I encountered spoke of buying copies of this book and handing them out to strangers, just on the odd chance it would end up in the hands of someone who would truly appreciate it. The book draws you in with the amazing, intricate, thoughtful, magical history of one family. BUT --> remember the caveot - if you put it down for a couple of days, it is difficult, borderline impossible to fully emmerse yourself in the story again.
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Summary: Best book I`ve ever read
Review: I have read this book for a three times and I stil find here something, which can cheer me up. Marquez` magic realizm is very sensitive and vital. His novel will be probably always in my bookcase.
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