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Our latest book club pick, “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” is definitely the sort of novel I would have liked reading with a class. I enjoyed the magical realism employed throughout, and there are moments of pure poetry in the book. In fact, the very first line of the book might be my favorite opening line to a book, EVER.
(Quick aside: Marquez’s first line rivals Ernest Hemingway’s famed “shortest story,” which was created when members of the Algonquin Round Table made a bet that no one could ...more
(Quick aside: Marquez’s first line rivals Ernest Hemingway’s famed “shortest story,” which was created when members of the Algonquin Round Table made a bet that no one could ...more
Jun 26, 2009
Noam
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Álvaro was the first to take the advice to abandon Macondo. He sold everything, even the tame jaguar that teased passersby from the courtyard of his house, and he bought an eternal ticket on a train that never stopped traveling. In the postcards that he sent from the way stations he would describe with shouts the instantaneous images that he had seen from the window of his coach, and it was as if he were tearing up and throwing into oblivion some long, evanescent poem: the chimerical Negroes in
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A challenging read...but the words drip off the page like a cool, sweet South American drink. It's worth the trouble it takes to read. Makes me wish I could read Spanish.
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Apr 04, 2007
Vanessa
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my first experience with magical realism. fell in love with it and have read it a thousand times since, even once in the original spanish.
