Rating:  Summary: Beautiful and stunning fiction Review: This is the best book I've read since The Triumph and the Glory. The quality of the writing is just superb. The characters so unrelentingly vivid they become as familiar as family. A very good book, I highly recommend it and cam just about guarantee that you will like it. Five stars.
Rating:  Summary: My all time favorite Review: I absolutely love this book and have read it more than once. The magic realism is great!! It reads like a fairy tale and makes the unbelievable become almost believable to the reader. The book follows a family through the generations. History constantly repeats itself and each generation is affected by the choices the previous generation has made.
Rating:  Summary: You will be amazed Review: This is one of those books that you will make all of your friends read once you have experienced its magic. It will take your through a hundred years of deaths, births, tragedies, and joys of a cursed family. And the best part is the ending - a conclusion that will leave you breathless!
Rating:  Summary: This is a book you will not want to put down. Review: This was a gripping story. Although had to look at the chart inside the cover a few times to see who was who's who, the story was read in one sitting. Couldn't put it down once I took it up.
Rating:  Summary: This book is incredible Review: I resisted reading this book for 10 years, even though my friends told me how good it was. I had glanced at it before and had not been taken by it. But by chance I picked it up one day and the first page bloomed and the second even more and the the third even more and so on and so on.... One of the greatest novels of all time, written by a contemporary novelist. Incredible!
Rating:  Summary: A sensitive and passionate opus......... Review: The surrealism of this book made me realize that life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. I cannot help myself to be so engrossed with the book because the author definitely expressed what was in his subconscious mind, characterized by unusual images. I was really fascinated with the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical, but intensely real, Macondo and the Buendia family. Mr. Gabriel Garcia Marquez indeed deserves the Nobel Prize bestowed upon him. This book is a must-read for those who reflect and sense life's numerous travesties and cataclysms.
Rating:  Summary: Magical, mystical piece of tripe Review: I read (well, not really...I got to page 100 and felt like I'd read it three times already) this book over ten years ago and I still rank it as the worse piece of tripe that I ever had the misfortune to come across. But I'm biased. Like most Latins, I think the whole "magical and mysterious" cloak with which Latin literature is viewed abroad is unfortunate, but ultimately it's that kind of rubbish that sells.
Rating:  Summary: I DON'T GET IT Review: I don't understand why Gabriel Garcia Marquez will get such great reviews on 100 years of solitude, I thought it was one of the worst piece of Magical Realism that I have ever read.Don't waste your time or money on this terrible piece of literature, Sincerely, it is a pointless, mediocre and most definitely not Nobel Prize material.
Rating:  Summary: Unputdownable Review: What an amazing experience it was to read this book. I was a little wary at first, but once you are introduced to the original characters, you have a genuine interest and concern for them. Although the similarity of the names of the characters can at times be a little confusing, that is of no consequence once you start to turn the pages. What a read!!!
Rating:  Summary: A história mais incrivelmente linda que eu já li Review: A genialidade de gabriel garcia marques criou uma das histórias mais lindas e bem contados do século, compre, leia e releia pq você nunca vai cansar. é um clássico a ser colocado junto com Les miserables.
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