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One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: The Tale of Human Existence told by one Writer
Review: It takes a writer like Garcia to undertake a novel of such mythic proportions. He weaves magic and fantasy into the politics of progress and greed, the loves, hates, incest and lies of human existence. Macondo is every place and Buendia is every man and woman. Garcia draws the reader to experience the depth and purity of the soul even as he constantly parodies its high moral ground by bodily functions and the smell of human pain and suffering. He lulls the reader into the bliss of solitude but forces them to confront the unbearable loneliness that it breeds. Here is life in all her forms!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Over rated and too politically correct
Review: I wonder if only the good reviews get notice or do the people who don't care for it much take the time to comment on it. Not worth the effort,couldn't finish it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The best piece of literature I have ever enjoyed.
Review: Turn off the television and forget the stupid movies. You've had enough TV for a lifetime. This book will take you where you want to go...an escape in fascinating literature, only to come home to reality and beauty and the unique bizarreness of life--in touch with the human race! From the very first page--profound reading. Marquez is truly a literary genius. I positively loved this book.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Please make this the next book you read
Review: George Orwell once said that reading James Joyce's "Ulysses" gave him an inferiority complex. That's how I feel towards this book. This may sound corny, but it's true that no words can express how much I admire Marquez's talent and how much I enjoyed reading this book. The magical realism is convincing, and how Marquez was able to chronicle one hundred years of a family and village convincingly is beyond me. He addresses every part of the cycle of life, so I believe there is no one who can't relate to the characters or events in this book in one way or another. Marquez also defines a culture and, in a way, practically gives a history of the world in just 400-plus pages. If you haven't read this already, please make this book the next book you read.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A good book
Review: Not quite a 4 star, but not a 3. The book was very good but the story is longwinded in places. The saving grace of the book was the last chapter and all which Meliquades predicted soming true once reflected upon.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Very intricate book.
Review: I wanted to read this book because of the title.It really intrigued me.But during reading I could not find any solitude.Life of people in Macondo was overfilled by lonless, but everyones life is like that.The only character I like is Jose Arcadio Buendia because his way of isolation was very comical.It was funny when he sat over the tree and did exactly nothing.I enjoy making the gold fishes by his son,too.The end took by surprise on me.However, my feelings after reading was not very fast and I felt like did not get that, what I had expected.I think it needs a few rereading to understand it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Outstanding
Review: This is one of the most simple and inteligent book ever written.

Must read.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: An incredible book full of imaginatrion and intrigue.
Review: I have read One Hundred Years of Solitud three times since 1980. Everytime I have read it I am more amazed at the incredible imagination employed by Garcia Marquez. This is one book which leaves you thinking for a long time after finishing it. The story of the Buendia family, while sometimes bizzare, has so many elements of the human sprit. I admire Garcia Marquez for his ability to move the reader. He is a giant among many Latin American writers.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Gabriel García Márquez greatest novel
Review: This is the novel that made the author succeed and it's obvious why. A story which seems it's never going to finish, has an incredible ending (I read the last page like a hundred times already). A personal advise would be to get a chart of the family tree, otherwise you may not enjoy it as I have

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: My favorite book
Review: This book changed the way I look at the world. It is one that I will always remember reading, because line by line it felt almost like a transcendental experience. I'm in the midst of rereading it, and I feel like I'll get even more out of it this time around. Please read this book!


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