Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

58 reviews

ppp's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective relaxing slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Incest, Infidelity, War, and Dementia

Moderate: Animal death, Colonisation, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Adult/minor relationship, and Sexual content

kjf524's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Rape, War, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Blood, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pedophilia, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Sexual violence, and Violence

peej_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging lighthearted reflective slow-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

4.75

I think it would be hard for me to add anything else to reviews of this book that have not already been said by better critics and writers than I, but I will say this:

oftentimes as I try to get back into reading after Ye Olde Adolescent Hiatus that so many of my peers and those before me have gone through, I find myself stuck starting books that I should read vs. books that I want to read. Not wanting in the sense of thinking the concept of a book is interesting and starting to read it; rather in the sense of wanting to read the book after you’ve gotten some ways in. I’ll try to pick up a book that adults are supposed to read, something that’s complicated and well-esteemed and at the reading level that every standardized test I took in school told me I was.

As a result, I’ve read books (some even in the short number of reviews I’ve published here) that were informative, books that won awards or were deemed classics, but were terribly hard for me to get through and enjoy much of the time (#respectfully you cannot get me to read Tom Sawyer ever again). Some just seemed so thick and their prose so antiquated I could barely bother (1001 Nights, I promise I’ll get back to you someday baby). At a certain point I felt like I was doomed to only enjoy YA novels, manga and those airport reads people pick up while starting their holiday. All fun and good things in their own right! But nothing that I could enjoy while being challenged.

Enter Cien Años de Soledad— Nobel Prize Winner, national treasure of Colombia, the seminal work of Latin American fiction. 

I can’t say it was easy for me to get through that first chapter as it was my first time in maybe a year reading a proper book, but that’s more atrophy than anything. Once I found my footing, I was hooked. The book is complex and intricate, containing the lives of what seems like an entire village all in beat with the grand scale of time itself, yet still shrouded with a presence of disconnection from reality. It’s very easy to keep plugging along, seeing the world through the almost supernatural lives of the Buendías, but the last 100 pages hit like a truck. I didn’t find a place I wanted to stop in that final act. I was entranced in a proper novel for the first time ever (I think).

If you’re looking for a perfect blend of what you should vs. want to read, if you’re looking for a bit of challenge but still a well-paced work of fiction, read Cien Años de Soledad. You will thoroughly enjoy it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Incest and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Infidelity

dorkestra's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective 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

4.5

The cyclical nature of this family is devastating to watch unfold. There are some patterns I did not even realize until after I finished, looking at the family tree. Not a conventional read, and there are many disturbing parts of this book, but it still rates highly in spite of that. Very well written/translated (Gregory Rabassa's translation). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Animal death, Incest, Pedophilia, Injury/Injury detail, Colonisation, Alcohol, Violence, Gun violence, Adult/minor relationship, and Sexual violence

chasekj's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective slow-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

4.5

It took me forever and a day to finish, but I loved this book. I'm struggling to put into words all of my thought because it is hard to adequately describe the story to anyone who hasn't read it. I've never been happier/more proud of getting through a book 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Sexual content, Incest, Grief, Infidelity, Mental illness, and Death

Best for those who enjoy having to really think about what they're reading

cleansky7's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Mass/school shootings, Death, Colonisation, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Police brutality, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, War, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Pedophilia, Genocide, Sexual violence, and Terminal illness

warmrats's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny slow-paced

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

5.0

A masterpiece. I could read this book a million times and still miss things woven into the story

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Colonisation, Grief, Incest, Infidelity, and War

jsuispoesie's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

4.25

When I was 15 y.o. - after bein  traumatised by the description of an abort in the first part of the narration - I decided I woul  never read this book.  Here I am, ten years later, after finishing this terribly long book, with the unpleasant sensation that this is gonna be one of the best reading of the year. Let's be clear, I absolutely despise the scene of rape and child abuse that the narrator throws in the stories like nothing. There are too many characters, and after a while I started to hate everyone because the characters I loved were no longer the center of the story. I'm not sure I completely understood all the war part, but I guess it's kinda the point of it. After all it really seemed like a spent a hundred years reading this, but at the end of the day I could not - not - like these characters, only because I saw them from the beginning of their life to their end. I don't give it 5 stars for the reasons I enumerated, but gosh I hate the fact that I liked this book!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Pedophilia, and War

Moderate: Alcoholism, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Vomit, Rape, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Child death, Incest, and Alcohol

Minor: Genocide

miayukino's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Confinement, Adult/minor relationship, War, Sexual content, Child death, Body horror, Animal cruelty, Suicide, Murder, Mass/school shootings, Gore, Death of parent, Animal death, Grief, Incest, Infidelity, Violence, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Vomit, Blood, Religious bigotry, Racism, Colonisation, Fatphobia, Sexism, and Excrement

tommy_g's review

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity

Moderate: War, Mental illness, Incest, Sexual content, Police brutality, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Death, Child death, Colonisation, Death of parent, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pedophilia, and Adult/minor relationship