100 Years of Solitude
I began reading this book in December and here I am midway through January and only midway through this book. I got this from a buddy of mine who tossed it 200 pages in. I'm not sure why it's gotten the hype it has. I thought of abandoning it last night but couldn't.
Anyone else feel me on this one or am I missing something? If so, please enlighten. I'd like to finish it without feeling like I'd lost part of my life for no good reason.
"I thought I had mono once for an entire year. Turns out I was just really bored."
Wayne Campbell
I don't know what movie you're talking about, but it is definitely not that.
seven years in tibet
aaah gabriel garcia marquez and his magical realism
seven years in tibet
Ahahahahaha. Yeah I'm dumb. How the hell did I mix them up?
I have not yet read it but I probably will. Just finished "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Marquez and I'm thrilled to read more.
"Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested."
"Jemand musste Josef K. verleumdet haben, denn ohne dass er etwas Böses getan hätte, wurde er eines Morgens verhaftet"
well, if you pick up 100 years let me know....I'm moving on to The Crying of Lot 49
"I thought I had mono once for an entire year. Turns out I was just really bored."
Wayne Campbell
Try 'Love in the Time of Cholera' by Marquez. It holds up better, I think.
I found the most frustration part of 100 Years to be that all the character's names overlap, making it confusing (for me, an idiot) to keep track of who was doing what. I had to keep referring back to the family tree at the beginning, but that ruined the flow of his writing, which has a distinct and beautiful sound to it. I loved Lot 49. It's the only Pynchon I've been able to get into.
"Fuck with me and we'll see who shits on the sidewalk."
-Joan Allen
Best line from the worst movie.
I was so confused about all those names but I tried and kept going. At the end I didn't really know who lived on and who was whose son and whose ghost appeared in the backyard and who was the oldest grannie (if I was right she lived on and on through many generations). To me it was almost like a short version of some biblical text wannabe and it tried to include everything from love to hate to sex to beauty to spirits to human nature and it was too overwhelming that I did not understand what the hell I read when I finished.
I'm sorry to hear that folks couldn't get into this book. I think its one of the most beautiful books I've ever read, filled with moments of great sadness and beauty. Since then, I've also read "Chronicle of a Death Foretold", which was also very good. I'm hoping to read everything Marquez has published.
It's one of my favorite books, ever. I think 'Chronicle' is one of the most perfect pieces of fiction I have ever read. Read his short stories!
I'm so glad there's another Marquez fan. 
"Strange Pilgrims" is on my short list!
"Strange Pilgrims" is on my short list!
Excellent!
My favorite collection is "No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories"
Is that book they made the movie out of? You know, Brad Pitt and his really wierd Austrian accent?
If I'm thinking of the right piece of cinema, I remember liking it. Haven't read the book though.