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A review by shaunireads1
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
3.0
I definitely feel a sense of accomplishment after finishing this book! I started it thinking I could take my time, but when Garcia-Marquez died when I was about 100 pages in, the request list at the library all of a sudden exceeded the number of copies available and I was forced to return it. When I got it back, I thought there was no way I would be able to finish it in three weeks, but then I got sick and didn't have the energy to do anything but read. I finished it with plenty of time to spare!
I can understand why so many people love this book, and why it is a classic. The prose is well-crafted and the cyclical plot is clever. If I had read this as part of a literature course, I probably would have appreciated it much more. It's definitely the kind of book you need some context for and that requires outside explanation, which I'm sure will be easy to find now that the web is abuzz with tributes to Garcia-Marquez and his work.
I can understand why so many people love this book, and why it is a classic. The prose is well-crafted and the cyclical plot is clever. If I had read this as part of a literature course, I probably would have appreciated it much more. It's definitely the kind of book you need some context for and that requires outside explanation, which I'm sure will be easy to find now that the web is abuzz with tributes to Garcia-Marquez and his work.