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مائة عام من العزلة by د.سليمان العطار, Gabriel García Márquez

8 reviews

linkkill's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Police brutality, Dementia, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Body horror

dazzlingreader_'s review against another edition

challenging emotional funny mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

this book its a wonderful mix between non-fiction and fantasy, the stories can make you feel uneasy, disgust, love and also angry, sometimes thinking about the Buendías as a crazy family to just see them as what they really are a intricated family tree with more than just one turn.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Dementia, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and War

midwifereading's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

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

1.0

What does GGM smoke when he's writing, because, 😳😳😳. I almost DNF'd this one too, because it's just too much. But, it's a book club book, and I really wanted to say I finished it. And I did it. Listening to the audio on 1.5x speed. 😬

Ultimately, he's a brilliant and beautiful writer, but his subject matter is disturbing, his characters impossible to like, and his style is very difficult to follow at times.

That said, I pulled up the Wikipedia page outlining the plot and characters, which really helped me follow the story much more easily, especially because all the characters have the same three names!!! That family tree came in handy.

This story wanders all over the place, and is supposedly an allegory of sorts about Columbian society, classes, elites, and politics. No wonder I don't get it. I know nothing about Columbia. Although I now wish I did know something! 

There is some stunning visual imagery, especially surrounding death. (Yellow butterflies, any one?) Th characters are vivid, but don't quite feel real, though I assume they're not supposed to. 

Anyway, this book is enough to tell me I probably don't like multi-generational family sagas, because never want to read anything like it again. 

100 Years of Solitude may be considered an international masterpiece, but couldn't it have been told without all the incest and pedophilia? Maybe?

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Trafficking, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

Have some other resources handy to help you understand it.

kmuttschall's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Gun violence, Incest, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

cvturner's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

Beautiful, magical, weird. I've read it five times. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Genocide, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and War

pandabulous's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Gore, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

Minor: Genocide and Suicide

sunny_not's review against another edition

challenging dark informative tense slow-paced

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

3.0

Honestly my personal enjoyment of this book is about 1.5 but I respect the author for creating such a complex, multilayered story with a huge cast of characters who unfortunately mostly share the same name. I was happy to see the book ending mostly because I didn't have to read another Aureliano or Jose Arcadio story. It was definitely not an easy read and I'm glad that I could finish this big and challenging book. Although it's interesting I didn't enjoy it a lot. I strongly disliked the characters decisions and I didn't feel a connection to them. 

I also didn't read the synopsis of this book so I didn't know that this was a story about incest basically, which I hated.

Overall it's good but I don't think it was for me. I also strongly advise anyone who is interested in this to read the content warnings because there are a lot. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Dementia, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and War

gagne's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

I've decided if a man told me this was his favorite book, it's a red flag.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, and Sexism

Moderate: Blood and Gaslighting

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Confinement, Fatphobia, Dementia, Trafficking, and Death of parent

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