Reviews tagging 'War'

Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez

175 reviews

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, Miscarriage, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and War

hot_water's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Incest, and War

rosy_carolynne's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Murder, and War

aiona's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Child death, Death, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, and Sexual content

Minor: Violence and War

ra2chael's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest and Pedophilia

Moderate: Violence and War