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HAH absolutely. And I'd like to get rid of 100 years of Solitude and put Oblomov on it.

... sky War and Peace by Tolstoy Kristin Lavransdatter by Undset Steppenwolf by Hesse The Tin Drum by Gunter Grasse A Hundred Years of Solitude by Garcia Marquez

#133: I finished 100 years of solitude this month as well and I agree 'slog' sums it up. I liked his Love in the time of cholera much much more.

I may give Love in the Time of Cholera a try. I have tried to read 100 Years of Solitude and just cannot. Maybe the other book will do the trick.

... Goncharov Royal Game by Stefan Zweig The Outsider by Albert Camus The Summer of Katya by Trevanian One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

... Sembra un pianeta di una lontana galassia! Questo sì che suona davvero fantascientifico! :P) Ousia cosa mi dici di Cent'anni di solitudine e del realismo magico per esempio? Lucia!

... of wasting my life reading any more. 2 War and Peace - yes, I probably should but I probably never will. 3 One Hundered Years of Solitude - I've got it. i will read it eventually. 4 Anne of Green Gables - I never got round to it as a child and I doubt if I'll bother now. ...

... from Proust (in a good way) and making my way through The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James and Cien Anos de Soledad by Garcia Marquez. Anyone else using the Clifton Fadiman Lifetime Reading Plan?

Of course, I'm not stopping here! I've got a few books in the works right now (100 Years of Solitude, Adjunct: An Undigest, The Three Musketeers, Les Miserables, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. I usually have an assemblage of books in my stack, but I think I started the Agatha Christie novel ...

... books the would probably be something like this. The Count of Monte Cristo Kokoro The Good Earth The Plague 100 Years of Solitude/Memories of my Melancholy Whores Language in Thought and Action Robot Dreams < A short story, but still one of my favorites Guy de Maupassan ...

... I was separating out Geoffrey Fox's One Hundred Years of Solitude, Monarch Notes from Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. They showed up as I separated various "notes" or "critical" editions from the main work; and when I recombined the ones that still had ...

I need help separating unrelated works from Gabriel García Márquez's, One Hundred Years of Solitude. Among the 17,978 members cataloging this work, we seem to have embedded references to Of Love And Other Demons, The Autumn of the Patriarch, Love in The Time of Cholera, and No One Wr ...

... lots of Spanish and French lit books (my majors), Racine, Corneille, and Moliere, lots of "Magic Realism" including 100 Years of Solitude, 7 novels by Mario Vargas Llosa 25: More mysteries and other crap fiction as well as Jane Austen and George Eliot 30: More mysteries, true ...

... the novel. The side stories never detracted from the whole for me, but seemed to enrich it even more. Thinking, perhaps of 100 years of Solitude where there seems to be a story that repeats itself with different characters, I would say this novel is not like that. The characters, even minor one, ...

I just started 100 years of Solitude, it's been on my tbr pile for years.

... because of its sprawling, post-colonial sweep. There's something intangible, indescribable about Anglo-Indian literature. A Hundred Years of Solitude for its magic realism. Cannery Row because of Doc. :)

One Hundred Years of Solitude Harry Potter

Jim53 is right. It sounds like magical realism. have you tried A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and maybe even The Life of Pi by Martel? Personally, I would avoid The Historian. I found it turgid.

... Magic Realism. I mean that in a positive manner. The quintessential Magic Realism book is Marquez's A Hundred Years of Solitude. This is an astounding book and one that I whole-heartedly recommend to all readers. And then recommend again. If you like the Life of Pi, ...

The Life of Pi is typical of

I'm going to jump on the LEC bandwagon with Django and just mention that the Limited Editions Club edition of One hundred Years of Solitude is fabulous, if you are lucky enough to find it at a decent price. At the risk of hitting a sensitive spot with some, I had to edit the touchstone ...

... down for each scene. Future books on my reading list include: The Handmaid's Tale, Catcher in the Rye, 1984, and 100 Years of Solitude. I plan on reading them once for pleasure and then doing the aforementioned plot exercise on them. I've already read The Handmaid's Tale and 1984, but ...

... River. To read Marquez I need to drown out everything else in the background, I listened to Mozart while reading A Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. Marquez and Mozart go together like coffee and chocolate :-)

A Hundred Years of Solitude and Bleak House, both through no fault of their own. I just keep trying to read them at the wrong time and life gets in the way. I also find it really hard to pick them back up because I'm so far through but I can't really remember what just happened...

... by Ayn Rand, and skipped The Shack. And anything by Hemingway will always have a place in my library. Oh, 100 Years of Solitude... never finished it. Wanted to like it, tried to like it, but couldn't.

... If you consider magical fantasy a subgenre of fantasy, then I'd also expect people to have read Gabrial Garcia Marquez 100 years of solitude, and Isabel Allende The house of the spirits. Then there is all sorts of regional books, Danish or Scandinavian books, that danes may have ...

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#30 is on my TBR stack too. I've liked others by McCullough. Started One Hundred years of Solitude yesterday and finding it very good 100 pages in. How did I miss this before?

... by Buck The Count of Monte Cristo By Dumas Dealing with Dragons by Wrede (tease me about it and I'll fight you!) 100 Years of Solitude by Marquez Lolita by Nabokov The Phantom of the Opera by Leroux (Gets me every time. *sniffle*) Watchmen by Moore My exposure to ...

... to life. Magical realism seems to be realism with magic added. To use Garcia Marquez as an example, there is a scene in 100 Years of Solitude where gypsies come to town and give everyone magic carpet rides. It is described as just something that happened that day. Haruki Murakami also does ...

... is a definite magical realist feel to the novel, though any supernatural elements are left ambiguous. It did remind me of A Hundred Years of Solitude in the way that the story of a town reflects the story of the nation itself. In Solitude, the myth-like quality (magical elements, repeated ...

Cent ans de solitude (Gabriel García Márquez) **** A crazy wonderful story set in a crazy wonderful world by a crazy wonderful author.

... follow the Poe Shadow and in the 1700s as the Monk, fighting temptation (and losing). I tried to be the Colonel for 100 years of Solitude in Macondo, but I think I'm too many other places at once right this moment. (that was fun!)

... this section. see Books about Books for my review. ideas: Brick Lane, The Virgin Suicides, Towelhead, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Jane Eyre, Atmospheric Disturbances, Decline and Fall, The Well and the Mine, The God of Animals thoughts: - Vikas Swar ...

... would have some expression in real life effects. But, the novel goes beyond even the sort of apocalyptic possibilities of A Hundred Years of Solitude into a nightmare realm of occultism, twisted sexuality, and political violence. Often surreal and disturbing, sometimes funny, it makes for a ...

... MOET ik gelezen hebben?”, dan zou ik zeggen “Elsa Morante”. Alleen op de wereld door Hector Malot (in 1960) Honderd jaar eenzaamheid door Gabriel Garcia Marquez (in 1972) De Geschiedenis door Elsa Morante (in 1985) The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner door Claire ...

#66 - after doing the BBC thing of richard's I decided to put Love in the Time of Cholera on my TBR list - I have read 100 Years of solitude but not this one library booksale coming up - will have to take copies of my TBR lists with me (as well as a list of what's on my shelves now waiting ...

... (and slightly overwhelming) 1-15 list: 1. Farewell to Arms- Hemingway 2. Days and Nights of Love and War-Galeano 3. 100 Years of Solitude-Marquez 4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being-Kundera 5. Everything is Illuminated-Safran Foer 6. Jane Eyre-Brontë 7. To the Lighthouse-Woo ...

If I were on a desert island, I would bring along 100 Years of Solitude. If that wasn't allowed, I'd go for The Magic of Fire: One Hundred Recipes for the Campfire, or really anything by A. Hermit.

... The Sea by John Banville 16 Samlade dikter by Tage Danielsson 17 Röda rummet by August Strindberg 18 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 19 Lord of the Flies by William Golding 20 The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens 21 We Need To T ...

... Crash, Neal Stephensen 51. Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kid 52. The Poe Shadow, Matthew Pearl 53. 100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez 54. The Monk, Matthew Lewis 55. Island of the Sequined Love Nun, Christopher Moore 56. Zodiac, Neal Step ...

... list, which is constantly subject to change and currently does not seem to include much fiction: Speak, Memory 100 Years of Solitude The Upanishads The Sufis War and Peace Lives of a Cell Children's book top five: The Little Prince The Hobbit The Tomten A Li ...

I liked A Hundred Years of Solitude but mainly because it was just so offbeat and different from the other books that had been forced upon me that year. Love in the Time of Cholera I finished but did not like as much. I also enjoyed Like Water for Chocolate which is similar in writing ...

... and that may have mixed me up. I think the only books that I actually enjoyed in her class were Moll Flanders and A Hundred Years of Solitude Among the books required for reading were The Fountainhead(gah!) Henderson the Rain King, Heart of Darkness, and Madame Bovary as ...

I've never read 100 Years of Solitude but I have read Alphabet of Thorn.

Ha ha ha! I havent read Love in the time of cholera.... but I've read 100 years of solitude

... the best book on John Brown too after reading Gilead (where he played a role in the history of the family). I have read 100 Years of Solitude in English. Really it is a goal by the end of the year to get my Spanish up to the level where I feel I can read it well (though slowly).

... the Civil War) and religion/spirituality. Years ago, I had enough hubris to believe my Spanish was good enough to read 100 Years of Solitude, but I'd like to re-read it (in English) to see what I missed :-) Happy Reading!

... ov All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham The Wild Geese by Ogai Mori The Confusions of Young Törless by Ro ...

Books I Started But Didn't Finish 1. Midnight’s Children—Salman Rushdie 2. One Hundred Years of Solitude—Gabriel Garcia Marquez 3. White Teeth—Zadie Smith 4. All Quiet on the Western Front—Erich Maria Remarque 5. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union—Michael Chabon ...

... of violence and relations in this small town. (An explorationintoviolenceandrelationsinasocietydunnit? No, doesn't work.) A Hundred Years of Solitude shows Marquez using his narrative skills to bring to life the history of Latin America, but this novel shows he can be just as adept when ...

4. Books in translation/Reading Globally 1. 100 years of solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2. The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov 3. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami (15/01/09) 4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera 5. A Quiet Li ...

Books in Spanish 1. 100 años de soledad by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes 3. Cantar de mio Cid 4. La casa de los espiritus by Isabel Allende 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

... way this book made me feel. Maybe it's just me? For example, I have yet to meet someone (other than me) who did not like 100 years of solitude. I hated that book, yet everyone else I know who has read it absolutely loved it & praise it! So, maybe it's just me!

... Letters from a Stoic (9-16) Poetics Nobel Laureates (1-8) The Magic Mountain (9-16) Cannery Row (17-24) One Hundred Years of Solitude Contemporary (1-8) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (9-16) Post Office (17-24) The Crying of Lot 49 Novels by Women ...

I've got to nudge One Hundred Years of Solitude because it is a modern classic. Love that magic realism!

... Will you persevere to the bitter end? I have to confess I didn't finish Satanic Verses either. I did eventually finish 100 Years of Solitude even though I'm not keen on magical realism and after a slow start came to really enjoy The God of Small Things.

I love Marquez and One Hundred Years of Solitude. It's a little complex, but that book got me interested in magical realism. I'd love to know what you think of it.

9. Books I didn't finish The Life Of Pi - Yann Martel The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie 100 Years Of Solitude - Gabriel Marquez Faces In The Water - Janet Frame The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann The God Of Small Things - Arundhati Roi My Traitor's Heart: A South African Exi ...

A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann Black Mountain Breakdown by Lee Smith Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: Life, Love and a Year on the Couch by Lorna Martin

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Mine is easily Gabriel García Márquez. Everyone post their favorite and maybe some of the books they like the best. One Hundred Years of Solitude Love in the Time of Cholera Of Love and Other Demons

... ic * 860 Spanish & Portuguese literatures o 861 Spanish poetry o 862 Spanish drama 863 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez o 864 Spanish essays o 865 Spanish speeches o 866 Spanish letters o 867 S ...

... Professional Lady by Anita Loos 4 Blondes by Candace Bushnell The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

... because the protagonist often ust seems whiny. I also love Chronicle of a Death Foretold but I haven't tackled 100 years of Solitude yet--it's in my TBR pile. Since you made it to 54 before the end of Septembe in spite of starting late, I think you have no trouble reaching or ...

... challenge, for example). I read Love in the Time of Cholera and found it faster and yes, somewhat more readable than 100-Years of Solitude, but as always, I love Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I've also been re-reading the Stephenie Meyer vampire series so that I can read number 4 in ...

Seven Story Mountain by Thomas Merton Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Third Man by Graham Greene The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

... was devoted to noting all the ways in which Christian was creepy. Great family saga, partially inspired me to pick up 100 Years of Solitude later on. Unlike the latter, though, I developed an attachment to two characters who promptly expired, making me sad. :(

... 7. Alexander Solzhenitsyn – One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Ralph Parker, 1963) 12. Gabriel Garcia Marquez – 100 Years of Solitude (Gregory Rabassa, 1970) 15. Bertolt Brecht – Poems (John Willett, Ralph Manheim, Erich Fried, et al 1976) 17. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie - Montai ...

... Nancy Mitford 3. The Third Man Graham Greene 4. The Outsider Albert Camus 5. 100 Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez 6. Hideous Kinky Esther Freud 7. Saturday Ian McEwan 8. Steppenwolf Hermann Hesse ...

... gone! Also listing shortly: MMP Cell Prayers for Rain Mystic River Dealing with Dragons Trade Paperbacks 100 years of solitude Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister The Schwa was here Really good YA book, and good for boys Hardcover no DJ Children of the Lamp

The Thin Man/Big Boned Nineteen Minutes/100 Years of Solitude Slow Man/Fast Women The Master/The Idiot White Teeth/Black Beauty

The LEC 100 Years of Solitude is stunning. Rafael Ferrer did the illustrations. There are several brightly colored full page illustrations and lots of very cool pen and ink drawings and "doodles" in the margins and set in the text. To me they are very well suited to the book. It's signed by Fer ...

Wow! I'd love to own the LEC's 100 Years of Solitude! What are the illustrations like? I have the LEC Borges' Ficciones and confess to being disappointed in the lithographs, which look just like simple mazes. The later LEC editions, after Sidney Shiff took over running the Club, are very ...

Now you have me curious! I only have 3 LEC titles: A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers, Uncle Remus, and 100 Years of Solitude. While I have a lot of Easton Press and a Heritage Press or two, I don't have any duplicates to compare. But I'll be on the lookout for a Heritage or Easton Pres ...

I agree on the Hitchhiker's Guide, it's also one of my all-time favorites. And I'll add Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit. I know it starts with an "O" in English, but as I read it in German, I'll mention it here. It took me a while to get through it, but I simply loved this book.

I think the one I was most impressed by this year was A Hundred Years of Solitude though there have definitely been some contenders.

I'm not sure I'd want to tempt fate by reading a book titled A Hundred Years of Solitude while stranded. :D

... I don't have (too busy reading) but I'll give it a quick go: Middlemarch Gone with the Wind Wuthering Heights A Hundred Years of Solitude The Lord of the Rings trilogy (I guess thats three, but worth it) Watership Down Mansfield Park Rebecca Lonesome Dove War and Pe ...

That one's on the list, and I've read it, as well as One Hundred Years of Solitude...

I finally finished Cien años de soledad/A Hundred Years of Solitude, and my review is here. fyrefly, how about reviewing Magician: Apprentice. Whoever picks for me, please choose from my CarlosMcRey in What Are You Reading Now? : Top Five Books first quarter of 2008 (Mar 29, 2008, 10:00pm)

... Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Moby Dick by Herman Melville Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Cuentos Completos I by Julio Cortazar

Finished One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I greatly enjoyed the opening chapters of the book concerning Jose Arcadio Buendia, but after that there were so many different storylines & characters (a lot with the same names) that I just couldn't connect with the characters ...

... sitten. Sen jälkeen oli taas pitkää taukoa ja en ole oikeastaan ensinkään varautunut lukemaan kaunokirjallisuutta. Sadan vuoden yksinäisyys hieman kiinnostaa ja ehkä Mika Waltari. Nojoo, jotain runoutta lueskelen satunnaisesti ja sarjiksia myös. En todellakaan lue paljoa, ehkä ...

... ***½ 8. Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf ****½, Demian ***½ Triple {complete} 9. Gabriel García Márquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude ***** 10. Knut Hamsun - Victoria ** 11. V.S. Napaul - A Bend in the River ***½ 12. J.M. Coetzee - Disgrace *** 13. Rudyard Kipling ...

Definitely One Hundred Years of Solitude, which made me want to find a place as much as possible like Macondo. Of course, there's no Macondo, and the place which Macondo was modelled on is not like it used to be anymore. Fortunately, South America is a big place, so if you seek, you will find ...

... of Malte Laurids Brigge - an amazing novel, and clearly not too obscure. On the other hand, there are some 11464 copies of One Hundred Years of Solitude - another novel I love, but which clearly has the advantage of being more recent, more widely available, better marketed and more marketable ...

... by Irvine Welsh The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera}} The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko One-Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner Bliss!!!

... ter. In no particular order: The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 1984 by George Orwell Honorable mention to Saturday by Ian McEwan.

A Hundred Years of Solitude seems to work fine.

... copies 5 THE KING OF TORTS By John Grisham. 1,892 copies 6 THE NOTEBOOK By Nicholas Sparks. 2,350 copies 7 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE By Gabriel García Márquez. 11,339 copies 8 BLEACHERS By John Grisham.1,107 copies 9 KEY OF VALOR By Nora Roberts. 660 ...

I highly recommend that you give One Hundred Years of Solitude a chance, at the least. It is not my favorite (Love in the Time of Cholera is), but it was still good. I abandoned a Christmas gift from my husband: A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 by Andrew Roberts. I ...

My experience with One Hundred Years of Solitude was that it was the kind of book you have to give yourself over to, if you know what I mean. It was like some of the Russian fiction, in which you have to give up trying to get all the names straight and have faith that familiarity will come with ...

... story. literally. I'll probably give it another go... sometime this year. On another note, I think I should re-read One Hundred Years of Solitude as well

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I haven't read it in about 5 years. But I believe the story spans across 3 generations.

Anna Karenina. Followed in no particular order by: Confederacy of Dunces, East of Eden, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

I greatly enjoyed One Hundred Years of Solitude. On the other hand, I thought The Da Vinci Code was utterly dumb, and I have never read anything else by Dan Brown. All the puzzle inside a puzzle inside a puzzle stuff became very boring and repetitive and silly.

... think at age 50 I could let go a little more easily! I liked The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. We read One Hundred Years of Solitude several years ago in book club, and I think half of the discussion that evening was centered around who finished, who didn't, and why. Persona ...

... Min (China) 7-8. Between Two Worlds, Miriam Tlali (South Africa) Numbers 8-1. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez 8-2. At Swim, Two Boys, Jamie O'Neill 8-3. The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas 8-4. ...

Finished reading One Hundred Years of Solitude, which was really good, and have now started Anna Karenina.

#63 ireed110: I cannot blame you for giving up on One Hundred Years of Solitude. I've tried it a couple of times, and finally resigned myself to the fact that I am never going to make my way through it.

I gave up on One Hundred Years of Solitude. I will try again someday, if only because my son loves it and I really respect his judgment. What did it for me was when it fell out of my purse at work, and the bookthong came out. I thought I'd put it back in the right place, but after reading ...

lisacharlotte18, I thoroughly enjoyed One Hundred Years of Solitude, I hope you do too!

Finished The Ladies of Grace Adieu, which was very good, and have just started One Hundred Years of Solitude.

... I was a huge Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende fan when I was starry- eyed. I kinda wonder whether I would think One Hundred Years of Solitude is rather ridiculous now. But in a way . . I don't want to lose the memory of loving those books.

5) One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez It took me way too long to get through this book. I had a lot of stuff going on so it was hard to find time to really sit down and get into the story. Overall, I didn't really think that it lived up to the hype and I found myself ...

... to have a lot less racism than the the US. Land and people I thought a lot about this when I was recently reading One Hundred Years of Solitude and especially the end of Of Love and Shadows where it seemed that the land had such an affect on the people and as the land changed the ...

... Tehran , Azar Nafisi 4,080 copies 8. 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, Patricia Schultz 982 copies 9. One Hundred Years of Solitude , Gabriel García Márquez 10,971 copies 10. Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon 12,147 copies 11. The ...

... ended up buying: Waiting by Ha Jin Silas Marner by George Eliot To Die in Italbar by Roger Zelazny One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Gridlinked by Neal Asher Idoru by William Gibson The Time of the Dragons by Bruce Venables ...

I feel like I've just come home. Hello, like-minded readers! Just yesterday I gave up, again, on One Hundred Years of Solitude. I feel SO obligated to read and love this book because my son read it in college, loved it, and loaned me his copy. It was interesting for a while, but then it was ...

This should prove to be a fun way to add a little variety to this years reading. {Original Challenge completed June, 24th} {Original Challenge doubled November, 18th} Categories now start at Message ...

Best of January '08 1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 2. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham 3. A tough decision... I'll go with Being There by Jerzy Kosinski

Just started One Hundred Years of Solitude.

... por eso me gusta leer libros escritos en este idioma que de verdad me encanta. El ultimo libro que he leido en espanol es Cien anos de soledad, mas bien un clasico! Quizas alguien me pueda recomendar buenos libros (que no sean demasiado dificiles, jejeje!!!) de la literatura espanola e ...

Hey, I enjoyed Love in the Time of Cholera, but it was nowhere's near as good as Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. Okay, drneuton, I am adding that to my wishlist! Michael Chabon is another one of my personal gods*. *This is not an invite to jargoneer to commence telling me what ...

I snagged Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Soiled Doves by Anne Seagraves for FOUR DOLLARS at the thrift store!

I really enjoyed the first half of One Hundred Years Of Solitude. It was interesting as I had no real knowledge of South American history. Unfortunately, as the generations passed and new characters seemed to keep having the same names as older characters, I got thoroughly confused and lost and ...

... Ella Minnow Pea sounds amusing. It makes me think of that James Thurber novel about the letter "O". I read One Hundred Years of Solitude in college and loved it. I just couldn't get interest in Cholera though. It's still hanging around the house somewhere unfinished.

I'm very slowly making my way through One Hundred Years of Solitude, but I just started a new job and find myself falling asleep when I sit down to read it.

I really liked One Hundred Years of Solitude but I couldn't get into Love in the Time of Cholera at all.

My most popular book is 1984, followed by To Kill a Mockingbird, Brave New World, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Catch 22. Interestingly, I've had all these books since the 60s or early 70s and, when I continue down my list of "most shared" books I see that I have to get well down ...

... on the plane this afternoon; my review is posted here. Carlos, how about Cien Años de Soledad for you? I feel like I'm the only person in the world that didn't like it, and I wonder if it would be better if I read it in Spanish. Whoever's ...

... that I have read any thoroughly enjoyed: Anna Karenina The Bothers Karamazov Beowulf Gone with the Wind One Hundred Years of Solitude The 237th Star Trek/Star Wars Novel ;o) See, all is not lost.

... avoid editions of something I might want to read that has her logo on it, and I'd be very unhappy to see my copy of, say, 100 Years of Solitude proclaimed as belonging to that "series". I'm not going to go so far as to delete the 1001 Books label from anything, since I'd rather wait for an ...

... him for dying and A Song of Ice and Fire is waiting til they are finished. This year I might finish Paradise Lost and One Hundred Years of Solitude and more long term - A Brief History of Time and Hawking's revision of those theories. sigh.

... finish it, but I really can't wait to be done with it. >2 I thought Rabassa translated for Marquez, and I loved both One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera.

... was so-so and didn't request this one. I'm not sure whether it's the translation or the author, I know Rabassa translated One Hundred Years of Solitude, for example, and I loved the prose in that book.

Okay, okay, I have to put my two cents in: I liked One Hundred Years of Solitude. My only "problem" with it was I found myself constantly having to refer to the family tree in the front. I had problems keeping all the characters organized in my brain. I am almost finished with Love in the Tim ...

I hated One Hundred Years of Solitude, which I had to read for my first college literature class. That was a long time ago (1992), so I don't recall a lot of details. I do remember being bored and actively disliking most of the characters. I also remember getting into an argument with most of ...

... Magus 4 Perdido Street Station 5 Los Detectives Salvajes 6 Cien años de soledad (A Hundred Years of Solitude) 7 Moby Dick 8 House of Leaves IV Libros en Español 1 Cuentos Completos I ...

I'm in, I'm always looking for a new reading challenge, and this will help me knock off some books on my TBR Pile. Here's the topics/books I've come up with so far... 1001 Books to Read Before I Die: 1. On Beauty by Zadie Smith 2. Life of Pi by Yann Martel 3. Alias Grace by Ma ...

... pieces of A Prayer for Owen Meany, which John Irving wrote in part in tribute to the Tin Drum. I'm afraid I loved 100 Years of Solitude too, even more than Love in the Time of Cholera. I agree with the notion of just letting myself go with the flow and enjoying the ride. The magic ...

... rewarding, satisfying reads. Marquez I have found brilliant every time I have read him - too infrequently of late, sadly. One Hundred Years of Solitude is surely one of my desert island books - I lived and breathed and dreamed its poetic prose - its poesie, perhaps - for months after reading ...

One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Garcia-Marquez, was on of the books for an English class at college (Literature of the Fantastic). I just couldn't get in to this book. I disliked most of the characters and really felt that it drug on forever. Maybe we over-analyzed it and spoiled the fun... . ...

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude Now, that's a lot of solitude. And this is a long chain, so I will start a new one with this same book.......

... you brag about having read them?" This I get from the likes of David Copperfield, Far from the Madding Crowd, 100 Years of Solitude, Walden and Crime and Punishment.

... culture and history might play a part in literary movements, but it might also be that a few Sub-Saharan authors picked up One Hundred Years of Solitude and felt inspired.

... House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski 5. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley I also really liked One hundred years of Solitude, The Name of the Rose, (even if i knew who did it 100 pages in), Ulysses and Trainspotting. I still have Walden to finish and War ...

... Stern 4. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski 5. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley I also really liked One hundred years of Solitude, The Name of the Rose, (even if i knew who did it 100 pages in), Ulysses and Trainspotting. I still have Walden to finish and War ...

#15 I also loved A Hundred Years of Solitude even though I wouldn't have considered myself a fan of magic realism. Love in the Time of Cholera is also amazing. These books were so descriptive that I felt I was living the stories along with the characters. I could hear what they were ...

I too, tried One Hundred Years of Solitude - three times. I'll knock a few off my TBR list before I try a fourth time.

I fought my way through One Hundred Years of Solitude. I think I could have coped with a couple of decades. Eventually I lost the will to read, and just turned the pages mechanically, running my eyes down each page. I also hated Dictionary of the Khazars, and when I reviewed it for LT, one of ...

... poems by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz o 862 Spanish drama o 863 Spanish fiction - 5 incl. One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel García Márquez o 864 Spanish essays o 865 Spanish speeches o 866 Spanish letters ...

... Alaa Al Aswany (34) The English patient by Michael Ondaatje (74) To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee (119) One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (107) Possession : a romance by A.S. Byatt (78) The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (77) ...

My guess is that of those 2% very few are recent books. Looking at the top non english books on LT the first is One hundred years of solitude at number 23, from 1967. Of the other 11 in the top 100 books only The Alchemist is more recent (1988).

... reading Marquez Love in the time of Cholera wanting to finish it so i can then go see the film. having read 100 years of solitude and memories of my melancholy whores I am familiar with his magical insights and slow moving, sensual tales. so far he is not dissappointing!

... The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke Honorable mentions: 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Possession by A.S. Byatt The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters Independent Peopl ...

... I was in school, and I remember that it was pretty good (in the García Márquez magical-realism way). I'd highly recommend Cien años de soledad (One hundred years of solitude) as well. I can't really imagine how it would play out as a movie, but maybe it'll be alright... Has anyone heard ...

... - Candide by Voltaire 853 Italian Fiction - If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino 863 Spanish Fiction - One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 873 Latin Epic Poetry and Fiction - Aeneid by Virgil 882 Classical Greek Drama - Antigone by Sophocles 883 Cla ...

Today I finished rereading One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, which my book group will be discussing on Thursday. I'm looking forward to the discussion--I loved it the first time I read it, and was just as entranced the second time around, but I know that some of our ...

Welcome, keren7! I am in Colombia, where all manner of strange things happen but are accepted as fact, in One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Got three going at the moment: Cien anos de soledad (Gabriel Garcia Marquez); The Burn(Vassily Aksyonov-- I'm already exasperated); Hiding Out (Jonathan Messinger-- great stories in this one, and the author just did a reading at Internationalist in Chapel Hill, which was a treat).

... the Nobel Prize for Literature, which is given to an author for their entire body of work, was listed on the work page for 100 Years of Solitude.)

... lovely book of short stories and a novella, mostly historical fiction and many with a botanical angle. I'm now starting One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, for aforementioned book group.

... the pages of these books and realize that another layer of meaning has been to what goes on around me. Garcia Marquez's Hundred Years of Solitude I've read more than once; some chapters of it three times or more. Like #3, The Noli Me Tangere, about four times since it was required ...

I am now reading Love in the time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I think I like One Hundred Years of Solitude more than this one.

... (etc.) Languages) The Cyberiad PN (General Literature) Fantasia Mathematica PQ (French, Spanish (etc.) Literature) 100 Years of Solitude PR (English Literature) Beowulf PS (American Literature) The Martian Chronicles PT (German (etc.) Literature) Momo PZ (Fiction, Juvenile ...

... translations) Sartre's No Exit Karel Capek's R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (Required) Garcia Marquez's Hundred Years Of Solitude -- simply blew my mind and completely overwhelmed me. #21/TheresaWilliams "I discovered Tao of Pooh and Zen and the Art... much later in ...

#26 - I received One hundred years of solitude as a gift, with the advice to draw up a family tree/character map as I went along. Admittedly, I have yet to crack the book...

Tried to read One hundred years of solitude but found it hard going & a not a little disjointed. All the characters seem to share the same name! Plodded on for about a hundred pages then packed it in as a bad job. Felt like a chore to read it & I wasn't enjoying one bit.

... The most recent book I've regarded as mostly a waste of time was Dictionary of the Khazars. I was pretty bored by A hundred years of solitude too.

... - Daughter of Fortune (review) - Isabel Allende Colombia - One Hundred Years of Solitude (review) - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Africa Congo/Brazzaville* - The Pois ...

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper The Woman Who Had Two Navels by Nick Joaquin The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien The Harry Potter Series by J. ...

... surreal, novel -- to see what LTers might have come up with in their taggin efforts: The trial by Franz Kafka One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov Life of Pi : a novel by Yann Martel The wind-up ...

19. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This was fantastic and fabulous. Often quite dense, as with Midnight's Children there were a hundred little epsiodes and details with each character -- though the hardest part by far, for me, was to keep all those Aureliano's and Jo ...

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

... five that came at the top of the list. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller The great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Life of Pi : a novel by Yann Martel The name of the rose by Umberto Eco So, whatever these ...

... novel. Gone with the Wind fed the romantic adolescent heart mightily. Here is more of a list: Rebecca by du Maurier One Hundred Years of Solitude Jane Eyre Dune Pride and Predjudice recently, I have been stunned by The Time Travelers Wife and Snow Falling on Cedars just to ...

... I did not agree with him, but that didn't spoil the book. I didn't stop cleanly, I'm still stuck 2/3 of the way through One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (and although I've greatly enjoyed it am not hugely enthusiastic to finish it). I'm two stories from finishing F ...

finally finished 25. cien anos de soledad by gabriel garcia márquez

... Luis Borges mentioned here. His anthology Labyrinths is a wonderful look at his work. Gabriel Garcia Marques's One Thousand Years of Solitude I believe is considered classic MR. Same with Isabel Allende. I apologize if I'm being too obvious here.

... hit-or-miss, depending on the book or author, as can most genres. For GGM, I'd recommend Chronicle of a Death Foretold, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, or Strange Pilgrims. The last is a short story collection, so it might be easier to dip in and out of.

... say. There's a quote from Garcia-Marquez that I think comes into play here... "The tone that I eventually used in One Hundred Years of Solitude was based on the way my grandmother used to tell stories. I discovered that what I had to do was believe in them (the stories) myself and ...

I was entranced by the first sentence - and indeed the entire first chapter - of One Hundred Years Of Solitude, but got bogged down after about 150 pages and still haven't finished the book despite several failed attempts. However, this may be the year, especially since I bought a copy with ...

#6- fleela, I'm pretty sure One Hundred Years of Solitude is considered an example of magic realism. And yeah, KromesTomes I feel the same way. Within the first 20 pages or so of Solitude someone started flying around outside the narrator's window and I checked out.

... going to re-try The Brothers Karamazov next year. And I would like to re-read some of my favorites from my 20's such as A Hundred Years of Solitude, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood again soon to get my now older cynical opinion of.

... and began to wonder whether his fame and Nobel Prize had worn thin - in my eyes many of his books are glorious- of course One Hundred Years of Solitude and i did recently enjoy Memories of My Melancholy Whores getting a kick out of the amorous meanderings of an aged man in his 90's. Anothe ...

... - one meditations for your soul gives you a list with The Great Gatsby, Life of Pi, One hundred years of solitude and Catch-22 in the first five. Shakespeare, Anthony Burgess, Margaret Atwood, Nabokov... Desiring God : meditations of a Christian ...

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... book I read? Probably not. I find books are very much a "personal taste" thing. Myself, I could never get into One Hundred Years of Solitude despite it's being one of the best books of the Twentieth Century (apparantly). There are even people who don't like Harry Potter, or so I've ...

Here's a dust jacket that's worth money. The first US printing of the dust jacket for One Hundred Years of Solitude has an exclamation point at the end of the lead paragraph on the front flap. Like this, "....ever written in Latin America!" The later ones are like this, '...ever written in Latin A ...

What did you think of Memories of my Melancholy Whores? I've only read One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez but I certainly enjoyed that work quite a bit. I know this one is supposed to be a little different from usual. Any thoughts?

... of Wisdom by T E Lawrence One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L Sayers One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

... of Wisdom by T E Lawrence One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L Sayers One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Irregulars Strike Again, by August Derleth One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Murther and Walking Spirits, by Robertson Davies A Long, Fatal Love Chase, by Louisa May Alcott Death by the Riverside, by J.M. REdmann

... night time by mark haddon during my holidays, and just finished 24. idioten by jakob arjouni still reading cien anos de soledad...

... Karel Huizdala by Vaclav Havel * Denmark - Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg * Dominican Republic - How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents by Julia Alvarez * France - Two Novels: Jealousy and In the Labyrinth * Germany - All Quiet on the Western Front by E ...

Thank you guys for taking time to answer. I read One Hundred Years of Solitude and found it interesting. Like most of you, it did seem such a tedious read to me. But I'm such a Gabriel Garcia Marquez fan since the first time I was introduced to magic realism ages ago (I think he was the ...

Yes, it was a shocker. It took me quite a while with one hundred years of solitude as well, but i persisted and i think it was worth it.

... to say none, but then I saw Love in the time of cholera in the touchstone column, I did read that one. I tried to read One hundred years of solitude years ago but couldn't finish it. Maybe I should try again.

33. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez pp464 Finished it just in time for his return home!

I'm aiming for at least 50 for the year, don't know if i'll make it but will try. Finished in May 1 * One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2 * Damaged by Cathy Glass 3 * The Secret Life Of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 4 * ...

... everthing he has written except for his newest one(s) -- although it has been ~ 10 years since I have read him. IMHO -- One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera are vastly superior to his other works. I always name One Hundred Years . . as one of my favorite books of ...

... by Rashid al-Daif (amazing, painful, and funny surrealist novel set during the Lebanese civil war) South America: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (my exposure to S. American lit is SO limited!) Europe: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (not her best, ...

I found One True Thing, Fall on your knees, the Wonder Spot, and One hundred years of solitude at a garage sale today and got them all for $2. I also found Lisey's Story the other day.

... pages, just casually interested to see that my typical read is more than 300 pages. Thanks also for the moral support on One Hundred Years of Solitude!

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... past the first chapter, and I have tried. And...this may put me beyond the pale in your eyes but I was bored to tears by One hundred years of solitude and The unbearable lightness of being. Perhaps magical realism isn't for me, though it seems like the sort of thing I should like.

From One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez: "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."

... with something that has received critical acclaim, to answer the question, "what is this all about?" Recent example: One Hundred Years of Solitude. Guides can also be helpful when reading the classics.

I have no business buying any more books...but I - CAN'T - STOP! LOL! Yesterday I picked up One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Last week I used a $40 gift certificate at Barnes and Noble to buy: Intuition by Allegra Goodman Halfway House by Katherine N ...

Here are my first two for April: 16. One Hundred Years of Solitude - review: didn't like this one so much. 17. Cloud Atlas - review: FANTASTIC! Predict this will be my ...

I recently finished One Hundred Years of Solitude and am now reading Cloud Atlas.

I am in the mythical Colombian village of Macondo with One Hundred Years of Solitude. Pretty bizarre place, I must say.

One Hundred Years of Solitude All J.K. Rowling Harry Potter books! All of the Lord of the Rings books!

I just finished Old Filth last night (twitchy touchstone on that one), and am now moving on to One Hundred Years of Solitude, which has been languishing on my TBR pile for some time now.

... nice covers, some have nice writing. Some are fancy handbacks made of leather and gold. Some have fabulous artwork like Modesty Blaise The Gabriel Setup or Kingdom Come. Some can make you go 'wow' or move you. If it takes slogging through them over 2 weeks for them to do that, though, ...

... Poetics. Also, some books mean different things to us when read in different contexts: my original experience reading One Hundred Years of Solitude (leisure reading) was a completely different experience from subsequent readings of the book in graduate school (analytical readings). Intri ...

... serfs. It warped his life and made him leave Russia. He had a lifelong love affair with a famous married mezzo-soprano Pauline Viardot-Garcia who was the sister of Maria Malibran. Turgenev was close to her husband and acted as the family pet in Baden-Baden. I also enjoyed a lot of the Blo ...

... political attitudes. he had an illegitimate daughter by a serf girl, and he had her raised in great comfort supervised by pauline viardot-garcia, the famous singer and his sometime mistress. there is a wonderful biography of turgenev by v.s.pritchett called the gentle barbarian. also, he ( ...

... Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke The Lor ...

I would really like to be able to follow conversations about individual books. For example, I'm reading One Hundred Years of Solitude right now, and if I go to this page, I can see a list of group discussions in which this ...

>37 All right, did I miss anything important in the second half of One Hundred Years of Solitude? (Besides someone having a baby named Jose, Arcadio, or Aureliano? Snark. Sorry.)

These just in via paperbackswap.com: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen and One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Added to the TBR pile ... !

... in which the characters all have different names Hee hee! I've found precious few other people who didn't like One Hundred Years of Solitude, and you just hit on one of the main reasons it bugged me so much. I did finish it, but it takes a LOT for me to put a book down, and in that ...

One Hundred Years of Solicitude Humbert Echo: Foucault's Pudendum Sleeping With the Lambs (sequel to Silence of the Enemy) Emmanuel Sainte-Bove: Volupte: The Singular Man John Wilkes Barre: Infamous Essay On the Assassin (Includes Amish Whoopie Pie recipes). what minds? what ...

I used to have trouble giving up on books, but not so any more. The one I most recently gave up was One Hundred Years of Solitude. I wouldn't say that it was horrible or boring, just uninteresting, and I might have endured if not other books were tempting me. Other books I have given up on are ...

... but I just could not get my mind around I guess. The one that comes up right off the top is Gabriel Garcia-Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude. Anyone else come across a recommended 'great' book that they had trouble with?

... but I just could not get my mind around I guess. The one that comes up right off the top is Gabriel Garcia-Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude. Anyone else come across a recommended 'great' book that they had trouble with?

... but I just could not get my mind around I guess. The one that comes up right off the top is Gabriel Garcia-Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude. Anyone else come across a recommended 'great' book that they had trouble with?

Most popular -- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 4,264 copies 10% mark? The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri - 981 copies 50% mark - Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata - 681 copies 100th most popular book - Stolen Lives; Twenty Years in a Desert Jail ...

still reading Midnight's Children . . interesting, like an Indian One Hundred Years of Solitude Need a map, and a history lesson of India though. So dchaikin -- honestly, I would go with the Border Trilogy first, in toto longer, but kinder and gentler -- at least try something "light" like A ...

... back. Probably read Watership Down 3 or 4 times. The one book I'd like to re-read (but new books keep callin' my name) One Hundred Years of Solitude I would be interested to see how my jaded 30 something year old self would now respond to magical realism. I loved it in my twenties when all ...

... now, but now I am enjoying it. They included Anna Karenina, War and Peace. Madame Bovary, Crime and Punishment, One Hundred Years of Solitude. I intend to re-read War and Peace when the new Pevear-Volokhonsky translation comes out. I am thinking of rereading some books that I ...

Of my most recent reads, I really liked the endings of both One Hundred Years in Solitude and Ghostwritten. In both books it's just so beautiful or even amazing how everything just comes together, or resolves. I'd have to go through all my books, but the one that comes to mind that I've read ...

... with you on Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera. It left me so cold I didn't even finish it, and I'm a big fan of his One Hundred Years of Solitude. I've reached the point on Cold Mountain where I'm just skimming to get through to the end. I have at least figured out what I don't like ...

... a very witty writer, too. Incidentally, Marquez was said to have said that he preferred Rabassa's English translation of One Hundred Years of Solitude to his Spanish original.

... haphazardly out of the fiction titles I had rated as fives: The Idiot by Dostoevsky Germinal by Zola One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez Hamlet by Shakespeare Ulysses by Joyce The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck The Recognitions by Gaddis ...

... now half way through Wuthering Heights. So far I love both of them, for different reasons. After that I will move on to One Hundred Years in Solitude.

The postman finally arrived! Together with a pile of bills, he bestowed upon me.. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood. What to read first? Best get on with my 'to read' pile!

I'm about 40 pages into One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I've always heard wonderful things about it, and it's so far really living up to the hype.

... - George Orwell Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) - J.K. Rowling One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) - J. ...

... all the unfinished books I have on my shelf. I have Anil's Ghost Drowning Ruth Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell One Hundred Years of Solitude and a couple of others that I really want to discipline myself into finishing. Maybe that will be my end of year resolution. To finish those ...

I tried to read One Hundred Years of Solitude in the early 70s and barely got to page 50, and had no idea how anyone could possibly get through it. I went back to it in 1990 and it was a completely different circumstance: the story and the language flowed beautifully, the almost quaint magical-re ...

warbrideslass - don't worry, you're definitely not the only one who doesn't understand all of the praise heaped on One Hundred Years of Solitude. I just couldn't get into it, couldn't be bothered to figure out which of the thirty seven characters with the same name was being referred to, didn't ...

... my kind of book--and it combines two of my abiding interests--New York City and the American Civil War. I'm with you on One Hundred Years of Solitude. I took it from the library, and even with a renewal I just couldn't get involved in it. Oh well, there is room for individual taste, even ...

That is my feeling about One Hundred Years of Solitude I keep wondering what I am missing because a book so highly honoured and praised should not seem so terribly bad to me, should it? I mean it's just boring and pointless so far. If someone could enlighten me about it's meaning or direction I ...

... {BTW, the y in Dis/Dysfunction is his own spelling.} Magnificent. Rabassa is a master translator; I remember his name from One Hundred Years of Solitude, Garcia Marquez's masterpiece, as well as from some of Vargas Llosa's works. Rabassa is proving to be quite amazing and impressive. I ...

Currently reading One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and I'm expecting to finish it this evening.

... a punch at GM. (Incidentally, VL wrote his thesis on GM, thereby creating the original friendship). I don't agree that One Hundred Years of Solitude is the seminal work of Latin American fiction however. I think that would probably be Men of Maize by Asturias, which is the first magic ...

Oh, I had a fun day at the Joseph-Beth Booksellers store today. I got Evidence of Things Unseen, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Plus, I got The Thirteenth Tale, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, The Jane Austen Book Club and The Memory Keeper's Daughter ...

... realism. Not sure that Rushdie surpassed Marquez. Midnight's Children is a great book, but is it better than One Hundred Years of Solitude. Rushdie's other books by comparison don't approach his masterpiece, while Marquez has written two other great novels, Love in the Time of Cho ...

... Balthasar and Blimunda. Which is not the usual favorite choice by him I think, but I just loved that book. One Hundred Years of Solitude. So many books by Haruki Murakami, but I'll limit myself to: Kafka on the Shore, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Hard-Boiled Wonderl ...

... Balthasar and Blimunda. Which is not the usual favorite choice by him I think, but I just loved that book. One Hundred Years of Solitude. So many books by Haruki Murakami, but I'll limit myself to: Kafka on the Shore, Dance Dance Dance and Hard-Boiled Wonderland. ...

... I wanted aren't part of the offer: Proust and the First Folio of Shakespeare. Oh well, now I can get that copy of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Epics of the Middle Ages I've wanted. And then there's The History of Western Philosophy. What else? I'm like a kid in the candy ...

... Frank Mistress Masham's Repose T H White Sakuntala Kalidasa The Jungle Book The Second Jungle Book One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez Alice B. Toklas Cookbook Diana Souhami English Eccentrics Edith Sitwell

One Hundred Years of Solitude (71) Perhaps I've artificially bumped that one up since I have it in about 12 languages but I've only read it in two and I tag all my non-reference books with either "read", "unfinished", or "unread". So without my odd little collection it would probably ...

... my first trip to Mexico when I bought El nombre de la rosa and I expanded into collecting origional language after I read One Hundred Years of Solitude and started to spend days in Mexico City street stalls and the used bookshops behind the cathedral to find all the García Márquez in Span ...

... my first trip to Mexico when I bought El nombre de la rosa and I expanded into collecting origional language after I read One Hundred Years of Solitude and started to spend days in Mexico City street stalls and the used bookshops behind the cathedral to find all the García Márquez in Span ...

... materials (linguists, philologists, me) d) people who collect books in various original languages such as Cien años de soledad, Se una notte d'Inverno un viaggiatore, and Die unendliche Geschichte (also me) ... or some combination or the above?