One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Summary: This is an enjoyable book that I would read again.
Review: This is a well written book that grabs you in the beginning and is even better in the end. The plot is masterfully interwoven and keeps you reading. The only downfall is that it is difficult to relate to any of the characters because of the magic realism. This made the reading a little slow in a few parts, but on the whole it was a great book. The family is stuck in a town isolated from the rest of civilization. It is interesting to see the progression of Macondo and the affect it has the the citizens there. It is ironic that even though the the characters are part of a huge family, they are all lonely. The end of the book is the best part that puts the whole story into perspective.

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Summary: La Historia de Adan, Eva y los que vinimos despues
Review: Cien años de soledad es la historia de todo ser humano. Describe la cortina diafana que separa el mundo de los sueños con el mundo real. Marquez logra capturar el amanecer, medio dia, vespero y anocheser de la vida de un pueblito, Macondo. Macondo somos todos y todos vivimos y viviremos las estaciones salvajes y pacificas que llegan durante nuestros 100 años que sobre la tierra. Las frases de este libro han sido comidas por muchos, quienes hoy saben o al menos tienen una idea remota del porque estamos aqui y a donde vamos, es decir no vamos a ningun lado en especial pero bueno... Como cunclucion recomiendo este libro para que los lectores buscando respuestas y precguntas infinitas... J.P Cardenas

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Summary: One Hundred Years of Solitude is a great book!.
Review: I read this book before and I get cautivated by the way Gabriel Garcia Marquez explain the history and a tragedy of Macondo, and the Buendia's family.Everyone should have this book.

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Summary: Simply the greatest book I have ever read
Review: This book was a true masterpiece. I would recomend this to anyone who would like to be able to take a step back fromt he world and watch it evolve

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Summary: a book that changes lives
Review: I started reading One Hundred Years of Solitude when I was still in school. I didn't understand the book beyond 100 pages.Such intense writing, i though. And so elusive! I gave up half way through with a promise to myself that I woild return to it. I did return to it a couple of years later. in the meanwile, i read copiously about the book one of them being an essay by salman rushdie. i began to relate to the book. it was strange. soon i could imagine talking to marquez himself and to Melquiedes, the gypsy whose note in Sanskrit lay at the heart of the story. Being an Indian I had read a bit of the anciant language in school. It felt a if it was our book, a 400-page note from my village. Strange though it may sound, i was rolling in such intimate experince without having read--or as ithough at that time, `understood' the book. it was with a mission to comprehend Marquez that i picked the novel again. I began reading and read it for a week...over food...in the bus i took to my college...in the canteen...everywhere. A week later it was changed man rereading the back flap of the novel. It was an epiphany, a divine realisation of a truth that had eluded me all my early youth. It was: you do not have to `understand' a book like One Hundred Years of Solitude. Yes, one does not have to understand the Bible, does one? One does not have to understand any work of art. It was this realisation that has had the most profound impact on my subsequent life. I thank Marquez for having written the novel. I thank Joyce for being so difficult I thank Flaubert for not writing non-fiction I thank Dostoevsky for having written at all

My review of One Hundred Years od Solitude is: It had to be writen. Good that someone with Marquez's gift wrote it.

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Summary: The lead singer of CAKE likes this book
Review: Why

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Summary: Cien Ano era muy bien!!!
Review: This book was AWESOME!! I cannot describe how much fun this text was to read. The author really gets his point across and enjoyed writing this book as the reader can tell. Anyone could read this book and thoroughly enjoy it. This book is not beyond anyone's reach. I loved it. The characters were so symbolic of the times. The whole Jose Arcadio Buendia family just makes me laugh. It was like a soap opera or drama written/viewed today: there was love, sex, violence, incest-original sin, and of course political corrution. I hope others enjoy this book as much as I did!

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Summary: I don't understand all the hoopla surrounding this book.
Review: This book has been extoled over and over to me throughout the years. I tried it about 5 yrs ago and quit after 30 or so pages, but this time when my book group chose it, I was determined to try it again. After all I'm 5 years older. I read it slowly, tried not to analyze it too deeply and become immersed in the flow of the culture. About l00 pages into it, I thought this is really creative and interesting. Fifty pages later, I was bored with its redundancy of characters, names and magical events. It picked up again in the last 50 pages, but it NEVER did for me what so many of the previous readers exclaimed about. I was disappointed. This is one book that didn't live up to its hype.

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Summary: A Haunting and Incredible Experience
Review: I approached this novel with reluctance. A friend recommended it but said it was best to read it in the original Spanish. I don't understand Spanish, but I decided to try the English translation. I was overwhelmed. For days I was in a trance. I could not and did not want to pull myself away from Macondo and the Buendia family. The words hypnotized me. The scenes evoked haunted me during the day and filled my dreams at night. Gabriel Garcia Marquez has created a masterpiece in any language.

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Summary: Chronicle of our lives foretold...
Review: Having read Chronicle of a Death Foretold, I knew of Garcia-Marquez's ability to narrate a story from the omnipotent viewpoint. However, after finishing the book, I realized that, much like Melquiades did, GGM had woven a delicate and pointed history of all of us. There were elements in each character that we could identify with, some more than others. But, the essence of life in Macondo is the same as the essence of life anywhere. What GGM has done should live on forever, being read by as many sets of eyes as possible. It's a shame that Macondo is not a place we could physically visit though, I think we'd all do well to spend some time there. Kudos and huzzah to you, my friend. I call you my friend because I feel like you already know me, and not just the good parts either. Then again, that's what makes life so interesting, the not so good parts. And that's what Macondo is full of.