Reviews tagging 'War'

One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez

70 reviews

moss_005's review against another edition

adventurous challenging slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Genocide, Incest, War, and Colonisation

Moderate: Infidelity and Sexual content

Minor: Pedophilia

eliss02's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I've read this for an university exam, I despised it so much it made me sick a few times but I constantly think about it. Despite me disliking this book it was one of those I've printed on my mind.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Misogyny, Gun violence, Mental illness, Violence, War, Death, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Colonisation, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Cursing, Dementia, and Incest

Moderate: Infidelity

noonjinx's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I only read this book because it’s one you are “supposed” to read, and I was expecting to struggle through and begrudgingly accept that it was clever like Midnight’s Children, but I ended up loving it.

It tells the story of seven generations of the Buendia family living in the remote Colombian town of Macondo. The family history is tied to the founding, growing, modernising and ultimate decay of the town. It really shouldn’t be so compelling because there are less than a hundred pages per generation, but it’s so beautifully written (and translated by Gregory Rabassa) that I couldn’t put it down. I don’t think there’s one sentence out of place in 400 pages.

In a single page it can jump between funny, sad and horrific. The tone and the magical realism are mesmerising and there is something delightful on every page. I loved the stories of prophesies, ghosts, magical plagues and hundred and fifty year old characters who turn up again when you’re least expecting them.

I don’t think I’ll ever forget the feeling I had when I suddenly realised where the ending was heading.

Definitely one I’ll come back to in the future.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War and Incest

Minor: Murder

laserdiscreader's review against another edition

challenging reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

This was a slog for me and I debated DNF'ing multiple times, spurred on only by the facts I read this for a reading challenge and I knew this to be a classic held in high regard by many people. It's an account of a family's life, incredibly detailed in some regards while jumping around time and space and handwaving away details in others. The style of writing is quite possibly the only thing I enjoyed about this book and therefore the only thing that got my rating of it to 3 stars. Maybe time will be kinder to me response to this than my current feelings after having spent over two weeks forcing myself to get through it. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cannibalism, Grief, Incest, Murder, Sexual content, Child death, Forced institutionalization, War, Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Abandonment, Violence, Death, and Infidelity

maribarreto's review against another edition

adventurous

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Abandonment, War, Mental illness, Infidelity, and Violence

joanabryant's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Hate crime, Gun violence, Genocide, Police brutality, Incest, Rape, War, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Mass/school shootings, and Adult/minor relationship

gaby_inz's review against another edition

challenging reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Cursing, Incest, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Child death, Infidelity, Gun violence, Injury/injury detail, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Rape, Suicide attempt, War, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, and Alcohol

Moderate: Genocide, Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/injury detail, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Animal cruelty, Miscarriage, Sexual violence, Body horror, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Dementia, and Misogyny

no_u14's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, War, and Sexual content

Moderate: Classism

planecemetery's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, War, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, and Incest

Moderate: Sexual content

mosca's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

0.75

Livre utile dans la compréhension d’un certain pays à une certaine époque, mais difficile à apprécier à l’époque actuelle.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexism, War, Miscarriage, and Racism