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Jan 23, 2024Dunehead rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
I sincerely tried to read and appreciate this book, but ultimately found it to be strange nonsense, and I don’t mean that in a good way. Instead of finding it to be compelling, I found it to be rather annoying. I’m just glad I didn’t…
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Dec 04, 2023RyanRoo rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
This book is required reading for just about every high schooler in Colombia so it’s interesting to me seeing people here giving up on it due to the themes/family dynamics etc. I was around 14-15yo when I first read it, and remember having…
Nov 27, 2023_hanah_ rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I’m grateful to be alive and able to read books like this.
Nov 10, 2023
I found it very difficult to follow the story and hard to figure out what the author was trying to make out. The author is very creative such that every character is eccentric enough. It combines real, surreal, sub-real, supernatural…
Jun 25, 2023ElsBooks rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I’m being so generous with this rating regarding my own experiences with this book. I’m only giving it more than 2.5 stars because when I think 2.5 I think “meh”. This book was by no means just “average.” Before you pick this monster up…
May 11, 2023jeremymathew rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
there is so much Colombian history woven into this plot. It seems that a lot of American readers miss the plot, get overwhelmed and put this book back on the shelf. If this is you, Ted Ed has a really great, brief short video called “why…
May 04, 2023
Multiple Recs! "This is a unique literary experience, overwhelming in its virtuosity and magnificent in scope. There is nothing I can compare it to, as there are no other books like it. It is practically a genre unto itself. 10/10 would…
Apr 24, 2023
Banned book list on KCMO library garage April 2023
Jan 04, 2023Cljackson99 rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
DNF. Got thru 1/4 and got bored. Entertaining enough but then got repetitive and I didn't care about the characters. Couldn't keep them straight enough to follow their storylines and it's a loooong book.
Jun 14, 2022
When book is available at South Omaha Branch, please let me know.
May 07, 2022APL1000896689543 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
In the beginning there was a book that was sold to me as a classic. I had just finished Don Quixote, and so I was used to reading challenging text. I was ready to give up on this tome because it's quite a crazy ride. People that claim…
Apr 22, 2022priscilla_46 rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
The author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is a skillful writer and evidently has many fans. I am not one of them. I listened to the audiobook - got through the first disc of 12. In that first 1/12th of the story, a young teenage boy…
Apr 18, 2022
To understand this book the reader must be a person from Latinoamerica and to have lived there since infancy. There is a true reality about the social complexities. the economic structure and the diverse belief systems that run through the…
Feb 27, 2022
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Feb 08, 2022abcabby rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
I tried very hard to finish this book but couldn't concentrate on all the detail and similar names. Got to page 250 and decided I needed a quite spot and lots of time. Maybe try again?
Oct 10, 2021JANETDONNELL1951 rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
This is the third time I’ve tried reading this book. It is a classic and supposed to be ‘good’ for me. I am a prolific reader but can’t even get to page 20. The book is poorly written and the subject matter is bizarre. I wish he knew…
Aug 31, 2021leki7658 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
The town of Macondo was founded on the desperate fantasies of a wandering man, Jose Arcadio Buendia, and his family. Home to a series of wild and often mystical events in the coming generations, Macondo and its inhabitants evolve with the…
Aug 16, 2021ryderthompson rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
“One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel García Márquez tells the story of the eccentric Buendía family and their ties to the fictional town of Macondo, beginning with its founding. Márquez integrates a realistic narrative with mythical…
Jun 27, 2021alexqise rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
This tale takes over the course of a hundred years and many generations of the Buendia family from the 1820s to the 1920s. Jose Arcadio Buendia first builds the city of Macondo, where the story takes place, in the middle of a swamp. The…
Jun 05, 2021
I get a kick out of reviewers who complain about what is an acknowledged masterpiece, but blame the book rather than themselves. Yes, Kelly, I talking about you. (I can't review the book yet, but will come back when I have had a chance…
Apr 08, 2021Kelly0102 rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
100 years of solitude is exactly what reading this book feels like. So many characters have the same or extremely similar names that it’s difficult to keep them straight in your mind. Relationships are also terribly confused due to incest,…
Nov 21, 2019wyenotgo rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Here we have on one hand the fatalism that Latin America inherited from Catholic Spain and on the other hand sheer whimsy — magical realism taken to extremes. But in the end it becomes a great tragedy: an almost enchanted society, happy…
Aug 27, 2019Linyarai rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
I read this for the "Set In South America" part of my 2019 reading challenge. I didn't like it, it was a 100 year summary of a family that kept using the same names every generation. I couldn't keep any of the characters straight and it…
Aug 06, 2019ArapahoeKate rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
While this is a challenging read, I believe Gabriel Garcia Marquez pushes us as readers to accept the impossible, think outside our own opinions and perspectives, and better understand the human condition. It took several running starts…
Jun 27, 2019jmreid1220 rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Yes, I can understand why this is so critically acclaimed. yes, indeed. This book is beautifully written and it certainly stretches your imagination. That being said, this was a bit of a slog and I felt a strong need to "power…