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Summary: Perfection
Review: Having to read this for my 10th rgade english class was the best decision i ever made.This family shows true emotion and character.From the cock fight to the execution of the General. this book keeps you on the edge . Don't expect anything normal.
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Summary: Magical Realism and Biblical Allusion: a people's history
Review: The literary vehicles, magical realism and biblical allusion actively fuel this opus. This book is a debatably fictitious freeze-frame of the unrecognized Colombian lowlands people's previously oral history. What you may consider magical may well be considered reality by the people you are reading about - don't belittle it as a quixotic author's imagination. Circular timeline and Spanish names consistently flummox English readers. You cannot read a few pages and put it down, though -trust me- Plow ahead - after 100 pps. it will begin to clear up. Note the tenses of the first line - time is not linear in this rainforest - reader beware. It has been written that this one line contains the entire book. Also, the parallels to Genesis are widely established - So, is this the book of Genesis for an unsung people? You tell me...
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Summary: One of my all-time favorites!
Review: The first time I finished this book, I tried to tell all my friends and family members about the story, but could not find the words. I am so glad my fellow readers have the same difficulty in describing this wonderous tale! The second time I finished this book, I was no closer to having a description than before...and so it goes into the 4th, 5th, and even 10th reading. However, you would have to look long and hard to find more beautiful fiction. Trust me on this one...read it and enjoy a once-in-a- lifetime experience...you will be glad you did!
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Summary: Beautiful!... but confusing
Review: I liked this book enough to rush out and buy 3 other Garcia Marquez books. For me that is rare. I found it to be a magical and poetic work, but with so many different characters (many with very similar names)concentration is essential. I am writing this now mainly for those of you who have heard of Garcia Marquez but have not yet read any of his work. My advice is to start with Love in the Time of Cholera. It is also a poetic, mystical, and romantic story but with essentially three major characters it is much easier to follow. Then read Chronicle of a Death Foretold. When those two have sparked you then take on One Hundred Years of Solitude! But expect to be turning back to previous pages, and refering to the family tree printed at the beginning of the book many many times. Either way, read something by Garcia Marquez. He is fantastic.
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Summary: One of Colombia's gems is our literary treasure...
Review: Have you ever wonder of the real face of a country behind the nasty and violent news? Colombia is not just a place were drugs grow and violence is common place. Colombia is also a magical place where the natural beauty surpass the routine. One hundred Years of Solitude is a passage to the magical world of Colombia. It is not just a best seller, it is a must for anyone interested in the other face or I must say in the real face of life. Sandra Montenegro, a Colombiana
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Summary: The BEST book ever written
Review: I enjoyed reading the other reviews written about this book because it made me realize that many other people have been as deeply moved as myself. I never realized that the written word could be so expressive. I was in my first year of law school, right in the middle of exams, when I finished reading the book around 2:00 a.m.. I immediately started reading it again. I have read it since then, and plan to reread it on a regular basis. Many times I have walked into a bookstore and read the last page, and everytime I get chills up my spine.
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Summary: Arguably the best book ever written.
Review: 100 years of soliltude is touching in a way that few things in the world ever are. It is almost uniquely insightful, and makes you wish that the real world was so poetic and melancholy. I have been told that it spawned a genre called 'magical realism' in which a realist text is troubled by supernatural occurance. In a similar way this novel will trouble and change the way you see your world. Few writers ever manage this feat, in this half of the century Gabriel Garcia Marquez has only Milan Kundera and V.S.Naipaul for company.
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Summary: From a thankyou note sent to the friend who gave me the book
Review: "My Dear Friend, I shall try to express to you the joy and release that I have experienced through your thoughtful gift of "100 Years of Solitude". It has more firmly cemented my belief that the right things find their way to you at the right time.
As I read the last words on page 81 of this beautiful book, I broke into a fit of joyous laughter and saddest tears such as I have never experienced in my life! As if all of the pain and joys of living up to this moment had found release. I can find no proper words to describe what I feel, except to say that I feel strangely at peace; with a sense of hope and love for this life that is ours. No matter that all that we work and strive for in life may end in being "tied to a chestnut tree with a shelter of palm fronds". I am reminded that it is the very struggle that makes life worth living and beautiful. I am left with a sense of indefinable courage to go on. I love this life! What a wonderful adventure it is, and how lucky I am to have all that I do. When it comes down to what is important, I shall die happy knowing that my life is filled, and made worthwhile, by the gifts of love and friendship of many wonderful souls. Thank you for your gift my friend." These words were written spontaneously upon finishing the first part of the book. That was over 3 years ago. Although I have not yet reread it, the ghost of this fantastic work has never left me. I would have liked it to end differently, but the magical power was not in my control. Truly one of the most compelling and glorious works I have ever read.
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Summary: great sex scenes
Review: Iloved the sex parts.
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Summary: Unforgetable story
Review: This is one of those books that you can read as many times as you wish. The story is told in a poetic way, and it makes the reader's mind to float somewhere between reality and dream, and you wonder if this is a fairy tale or just a fiction. Anyway, I think this is Garcia's best work ever.
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