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Summary: Opens up worlds
Review: Unfortunately for Marquez, this is the title that is most loved. He has expressed a preference for 'The Autumn of the Patriarch'. But for the rest of us '100 Years' opens up worlds, opens up minds and opens up literature. If you haven't read it you are missing a dazzling milestone in 20th Century literature.
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Summary: The very best.
Review: Despues de haber leido el mejor libro "Cien anos de Soledad", el mejor libro publicado en Spanish, it is time to read it English, I'm sure that I will also enjoy it.
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Summary: One of the best ever.....
Review: I have read this book 4 times, and I can read it 100 times more, and never get tired of it. This is what a great piece of literture can do. This book has such unforgetable scenes, that one cannot differenciate between dream and reality that exists in the story, but takes over your mind and don't let go till you set aside the book. And even after, you will be captivated by the imagineray that has gone into this masterpiece.
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Summary: One of the top ten books I've ever read!
Review: Asking someone to rate this book as a work of fiction is like asking someone to rank Shakespeare as a playwright. What else can be said - this book is almost without peer. The only reason I am writing this at all is that I would like to respond to some of the other reader's comments about the ending. The ending to this novel is what earns it, not a ten, but a twelve! Perhaps one book in a thousand has a last page that brings the whole book together, knocking the wind out of you and making you feel as though you'd been hit by a bolt of lightning. Of those rare one in a thousand books, this is one of the best! Read it and see - you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: It opened me the doors to a whole world
Review: I read this book 3 years ago, my first and best one, because of my parents. I fall in love with it and discoverd the world of novels. Three months later I had read 6 other titles of Garcia Marquez.
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Summary: The purest novel describing the human condition.
Review: This is not a happy book as many other readers have said in their reviews. It is a novel of depression and introspection showing both the saddest and brighest sides of solitude. But the characters' solitude is not like me locking myself up in my room to read this book. It is deeper, describing something existential, a way of life that is disciplined in the joyous festivities and in the deep mourning. My lasting impression of this book is not that of beauty or wonder, but shock in the speaker's accurate description of the human condition.
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Summary: Great piece of literary work, exciting, and funny.
Review: I recently read Marquez' book and found it to be one of the most thrilling and entertaining books I have ever read. I now see why he won the Nobel prize for literature in 1982. I got so involved with the characters that I was actually dreaming of them (maybe hallucinating). I wanted to know why they behaved the way they did. Marquez had a systematic way of reavealing everything at the end. However, it was a little difficult to read, but challenging. It was funny,but at the same time weird. I loved reading it. Garcia Marquez has an incredible knack with words. Even though I read the English version of the book, I don't imagine much was left out as a result of its translation. He was able to show how individuals in this fictitious town, Macondo, become lost in their own worlds, desires (solitude) and at the same time disregard any social mores or laws and consequences. He subsequently showed that there are consequences for one's actions. Granted, there were many things that cannot be easily explained, but that is all part of his style of writing called "Magical realism". I loved "100 years of solitude" so much that I intend to continue doing more research to understand the book. Great piece of literary work. This refers to the hardcover version of the book.
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Summary: Perfection
Review: As close to literary perfection as any work of fiction I have ever read. What does one say? Reading it was like reading the revealed word of God. Upon completing the book, I just sat there knowing nothing else I could ever read would approach the perfection of this book.
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Summary: 100 years of solitude
Review: Garcia Marquez is the best writer in Latin America. He show to the hole world our pains, our fantasies and our feelings and nobody can make the same like him. He is so sensibile like his own people but he have the great chance to tell things in beautifull and wonder words (I hope you can understand my english)
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Summary: lost in space, ideas, lost in our solitude
Review: All I can think when I read this book is the human comedy(tragedy) that we are trying to play. The comedy of life, of our solitude that has its roots deeply inside our souls. This book is a mirror of the human soul and of our society. The image reflected is tragic, is the image of souls that fight to survive in this mix of love, hate, ignorance, geniality and pain that is commonly known as LIFE. Marquez is great and this book is the reason why Marquez is great. READ IT.
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