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Summary: Gabriel Garcia Marquez has some explaining to do!!!!!!!!
Review: I read the english version in one week and am now reading it again. Its a fascinating book but I wish Garcia Marquez was my neighbor so I could ask him the millions of questions that I thought of when reading the book. The books captured my mind, soul and heart, I actually cried seeing colonel Aureliano, my second favorite character reduced to an old, solitary man. My questions are: What time periods does the story take place? Is this left unanswered so readres from any century can relate to it, since it is a story of humanity in every century? Does GGM really believe our lives are written in stone and untangible? This book makes you thgink about life and everything youve ever done in your life. It makes you think of your family and their similarities to characters in GGM book. I recommend it tro anyone who thinks they can handle sex, war, trauma, death, human decay, and every single human feeling.
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Summary: I am now on my third copy of this book
Review: I am so happy I can now afford a hardback version of this classic of world literature. I first read this book in high school - thank goodness for open-minded, world-view teachers. And every reading brings new insights.Rabassa is a fabulous translator. In the original Spanish, this is totally hypnotic, and that dreamy state is crafted lovingly in the translation.
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Summary: READ IT AGAIN!!!!
Review: I was born in Colombia and the first time I read this book I was 9. Of course it took me almost one year to finish it and I didn't understand it very well. Over the years I've read it other 15 times in spanish and this is the first time I read it in english. Everytime I read it I found new things, new characters, new words, more magic, more about South American people, more about my culture. That's why I want to thank the people who took the time to investigate about Colombia, its history, its people, its culture, its geography, etc. It is almost impossible to read this book and understand it without knowing all this background. When you read this book a door opens between you and a magic world, that, even though never existed, is so close to reality than it can trap you for life. I don't know how many times I'm going to read it again, but it's always a pleasure to open any page and start reading. It is never a repetition because you never know if you'll find something else. Apparently the story itself evolutes with you through the years. READ IT AGAIN!!!!!
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Summary: One of the most profound books you'll read.
Review: I recomend this novel to all whom may read this review. It is the most profound, interesting and wonderful novel that I have read. Marquez nimbly creates a world modeled after his own in which all different emotions flow and characters are very real. To fully appreciate this book one must have a knowledge of South American culture, although the first read of mine I claimed no such knowledge and I still couldn't put it down. It is a book which captures both the small, wonderful details of life and the greater questions of humanity in an easy to read package. I strongly recomend this book to everybody.
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Summary: This book won the most important Nobel Price in 20 years!!
Review: Marquez is the most important living writer in any language. This book is a classic and will still be considered one in another hundred years. It may not be palatable to the suburbian children of the Politically correct era, but it reflects a different time and a reality that exists even today in Latin America. Often imitaded (Isabel Allende) but never equaled Garcia Marquez soars with Borges, Cortazar, Fuentes, Vargas Llosa, and many other Latin American writers to create the best literature of this century, only comparable to the Russian writers of the nineteen century.
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Summary: Once again I fallen into the surreal world of GG Marquez.
Review: I always know that when I set out to read a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez I am asking for it! Marquez's writing style and characters are like none else I have ever encountered. I was initiated through Love in the Time of Cholera some years ago and found I was still recovering from it before I chose to read One Hundred Years of Solitude. Marquez I believe, is one of my favorite storytellers yet! In One Hundred Years of Solitude Marquez captures time with ease. He tells a story that begins somewhere around where Genisis left as I understand it and spans the cenuries to the life of today as if it where as easy as flying a kite over a field of flowers. It does not take long before you as the reader feel like one of the Buendia family and are as exited as they when the gypsies come to twn or are as curious as to where Colonel Aurleiano's troop is as Ursula, and you only wish you really were there so that you could see the faces of all the Aurleianos's, Arcadio's, ans Remedios's to be sure of who is who. The characters can be very confusing. I really enjoyed this book it was like ecaping to another world, another time each time I picked it up, and that to me is my favorite part of reading.
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Summary: The end justified the read...
Review: I was recommended this book years ago by a close friend, who considered it the best book she had ever read in her life. When I finally broke down and bought a copy, it took me forever to finish this. I believe that this was due in part to Marquez's annoying and often-confusing habit of giving every male in this three-generational family a derivative of the same name. (The family tree at the beginning of the novel became a favorite resting nook for my baby finger.) But while lengthy, this novel was never boring, as the author's prose were always poetic, lyrical and interesting. However, I kept wondering where these characters were going. The last chapter wrapped everything up nicely for me, causing me to more closely consider the meanderings of the characters who I had lived with for the last month. It made sense. Tragic, lyrical and memorable, but not the greatest novel I have ever read.
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Summary: Colombian family values -- part II
Review: Marquez' book takes the reader through the lives and times of what *may* be an atypical Colombian (?) family, covering from roughly the 1830s to the 1930s. It was fun in parts, but oddly repetitive, with a style that seemed half magic realism, half Freud. And, of course, the standard enervating anti-American diatribes were thrown in. I guess a Latin American author even in magic realism mode can't overcome his predilections. And speaking of predilections, Marquez, along with some other of intellectualdom's best and brightest, recently decided to weigh in on the Klinton-Lewinsky scandal (New York Times, Sep 26, 1998). I think this is entirely appropriate. When it comes to judging contemporary sexual mores, who better than Marquez to judge our beloved Bill?
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Summary: sensational and invigorating
Review: "One hundred years of solitude" is incredible for many reasons, including its cyclical portrayal of the Buendia family. The family is being torn by the desire for solitude, as the Colonel becomes very aware of, and the need for love. Many characters repeat history, doing what theyre ancestors have done. This is a splendid book that was and easy read, but had alot of messages underneath the explicit.
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Summary: Intese imagry and symbolism
Review: There is not a lot to comment on this book. It is simply extrodinary. Having lived in the general area that Garcia Marquez was raised, and of the which he wrote this book, I find it very true to life. The characters in the book permit the reader to relate to the type of everyday life that goes on. Though the book seems to be several broken events placed together, upon finishing it we are able to witness the great symphony of literature that Garcia Marquez composed.
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