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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

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mosca's review against another edition

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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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hot_water's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-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

4.0

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rosy_carolynne's review against another edition

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

4.0

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aiona's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious reflective 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

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ra2chael's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging mysterious 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

5.0

Wow. Where do I even start? One Hundred Years of Solitude follows the Buendía family throughout 7 generations over 100 years that feels more like an entire span of a universe. That’s what this book feels like - reading the happenings of a world from its creation to its eventual combustion. It overflows with veiled biblical retellings, magic, irony, desire, and the infallible human nature to fall into the same old traps over and over and over again.
Outside of the central theme of solitude, ‘Time is a circle.’ Is one of the most repeated ideas in the book. It’s what stayed with me the most and indeed at some point it really clicked for me how important it is that the characters all have the same names, as it really adds to the blurring of time and reality in a simple but genius way. There’s so much more to say about this book. Though it’s not super long every page is so full and the poetic style requires so much concentration that it feels like it could be 2000 pages long even though its 400. I slugged through the first half over almost 2 months and then it finally clicked and I zoomed through the second half. So , so incredible. 
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borninexile's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense 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? Yes

4.75

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hollybearhouck's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious 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

4.0

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peashawn's review against another edition

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

5.0

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ainaruizdegauna's review against another edition

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

3.25

"Cien años de soledad" es uno de los grandes clásicos de la literatura hispanoamericana y esa esa la razón por la que lo empecé a leer. García Márquez tiene una mente privilegiada y un estilo de escritura que hace que sea fácil avanzar en este libro, sin que ello implique que no pueda ser el punto de partida de reflexiones sobre la vida importantes. Ahora bien, mi puntuación se debe a que el libro se me ha hecho ligeramente pesado y me ha costado acabarlo por una característica intrínseca de este: la circularidad. Si eres unx lectorx que necesita que la historia avance hacia algún objetivo, seguramente no disfrutes de este libro. Esto no quiere decir, claro está, que el libro no sea bueno. Pero no es una lectura fácil en ese sentido. 
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lausokay's review against another edition

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

2.0

This is an extremely weird book. I liked it at first and thought the beginning was really interesting. But I got the jist quite soon and then it just became boring to me. And just really disturbing and weird. Don’t know what the author’s fascination with incest is.
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