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One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez

Start date: June 1, 2015

Finish date: July 1, 2015

Discussion: Group Read (2015)

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Group Read (2015)

* Group Read (June 2015) --One Hundred Years of Solitude (No Spoilers!)
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Group Read (July 2015) --The Unbearable Lightness of Being (No Spoilers!)
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Nov 30, 2014 Parthiban Sekar rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: read-again, translated-texts, favorites, spanish-trans

Cease, Cows, Life is short!

This is probably the best story (Not "Book") I have read in recent times. Amidst all the talks about how boring this book is for some who still have to read because of group-reads or curriculum or whatever, this is a unique story which can neither be repeated or replicated. And that's how I find this masterpiece of Gabe!

It is true that repeating names might seem to cause some kind of confusion while reading and many of us I know dropped or stopped reading this book ...more

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Jun 12, 2015 Ritwik rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, magic-realism

How do you characterize a book that you love or you look forward to make it your favorite? Which special qualities do you look for so as to attribute those features to a book or a genre that you find yourself likely to fall in love with or have a pre-conceived set of notions and expectations and in the process confine yourself to a limited set of genres or a single genre?

I had a look at the reviews of the most popular books in the genre of magic (al) realism and disappointingly came across a str ...more

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Dec 23, 2016 Naddy rated it really liked it

Although the “One hundred Years of Solitude (OHOS) ” has ended but I still feel I am in dream and wandering in the streets of Mocando, listening to Buendia family affairs, thinking about fluidity of time, inset, solitude, magic realism, symbolic realism, science, alchemy, chemistry, utopia, epic myth, etc. though some details are mushed up and some are clear.. Well that’s what is OHOS

To be honest, initially I had difficulty to get accustomed with the writing of Gabriel García Márquez, I re-read ...more

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May 29, 2015 Ashita Thakur rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

There was a town with a breath of fire,
Where women thrust their hips and men would perspire
Where incest was so common they called it passion
and naming your child Aureliano was the latest fashion
Where 'Everything is known' but not your own mother,
The guy next to you might as well be your brother,
Where the dead come alive with warm breaths,
To reveal secrets and warn about coming deaths,
There lives a family called Buendia touched by irrevocable madness,
In the town that reeks of eternal sadness,
Keep ...more

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Jun 11, 2015 Anirban Nanda rated it it was amazing

Shelves: classic, fantasy, tragic, magic-realism, tragicomic

At last I have completed this mammoth book on magic realism, on fantastical reality which spans for 100 years along with the rise and transformation and fall of Buendia family, with indistinguishable names and umpteen numbers characters, combined with black comedy and irresistible pun that with knock you out and make you sometimes sleep, sometimes sit at the edge of your study chair, sometimes bang on your laptop or book or kindle and it will make you understand that how much well Marquez can wr ...more

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