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One Hundred Years of Solitude

By Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780380015030

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A best seller and critical success in Latin America, Europe, and the United States, One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of teh mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family. It is a rich and billiant chronicle of life andContinue

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It is too good for me to say anything :)

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Littleferryboats said on Mar 1, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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It's a very sad novel. Not in the sense that great tragedies happen and melodramas fill up the plot, but that the whole atmosphere lives up to the name of the book - an atmosphere of unbearable solitude. Actually individual tragedies do happen and they happen quite frequently, but they are dealt ... (continue)

It's a very sad novel. Not in the sense that great tragedies happen and melodramas fill up the plot, but that the whole atmosphere lives up to the name of the book - an atmosphere of unbearable solitude. Actually individual tragedies do happen and they happen quite frequently, but they are dealt with in an almost nonchalant way, which makes the tone quite controlled. But that is what makes the book: the tragedies seem so inevitable that one knows they will keep repeating. Is Marquez alluding to the entire human race? Maybe, "because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth." When all humans are killed off for whatever reasons in the future, perhaps there won't be a shred of evidence that we ever existed.

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Holmes said on Jul 24, 2009 about the Paperback edition | 1 feedback

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Dunno how to put it...it's just captivating

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fruit said on Apr 14, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

Marquez has a unique writing style, and it's interesting to see it repeated in "100 Years of Solitude" as well as another one of his books, "Love in the Time of Cholera."
100 Years seemed to have more of a tragicomical twist to it, almost catch22-like, if I had to pin a likeness to it. I really en ... (continue)

Marquez has a unique writing style, and it's interesting to see it repeated in "100 Years of Solitude" as well as another one of his books, "Love in the Time of Cholera."
100 Years seemed to have more of a tragicomical twist to it, almost catch22-like, if I had to pin a likeness to it. I really enjoyed it.

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fruitfulfig said on Feb 4, 2012 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

Epic. Think of it like genesis. I found it dense at times, and it definitely helps to keep track of character names (who someone's related to, who they're sleeping with, and sometimes both). I recommend it only if you are going to commit to it and read the whole thing. GGM is unlike any other aut ... (continue)

Epic. Think of it like genesis. I found it dense at times, and it definitely helps to keep track of character names (who someone's related to, who they're sleeping with, and sometimes both). I recommend it only if you are going to commit to it and read the whole thing. GGM is unlike any other author I've read, with some fantastic imagery and some really screwed up themes.

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Sarabear135 said on Feb 25, 2010 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

One Hundred Years of Solitude

This book is loosely based on the Book Of Genesis. It starts at the beginning with the Garden of Eden. There is the 'Cain and Abel' story and Noah. But the Book of Genesis ends with the rebirth of humankind whereby this novel ends with the finality of death. There is no consolation for the people ... (continue)

This book is loosely based on the Book Of Genesis. It starts at the beginning with the Garden of Eden. There is the 'Cain and Abel' story and Noah. But the Book of Genesis ends with the rebirth of humankind whereby this novel ends with the finality of death. There is no consolation for the people condemned to 100 years of solitude.

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Jelly Belly said on Dec 25, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback