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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
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
slow-paced
Um die Hälfte zu lang.
Die erste Hälfte, einer der wildesten und besten Sachen, die ich je gelesen hab.
Die erste Hälfte, einer der wildesten und besten Sachen, die ich je gelesen hab.
I feel any review I could write wouldn't be enough to do this book justice...
It's epic and domestic at the same time, every beginning is an end, it's a cycle of solitary souls coming and going and a testament to how every family member's actions echo in the others' lives past and present. Marquez's way of describing all this is magical and mundane at once.
Just like all the miracolous and tragic events that happen again and again. There are so many genius elements! The Genius loci of a family house that keeps calling back its people and is peacefully haunted by them, political wars and events and that are forgotten because the official history has chosen to obliterate them, the power of nostalgia and what it really is. There is so much to unpack.
Apologies this is a little chaotic, I'm aware.
Note to self: favourite characters were probabily Remedios Buendìa, Colonel Aureliano Buendìa, Ursula and José Arcadio Buendìa.
It's epic and domestic at the same time, every beginning is an end, it's a cycle of solitary souls coming and going and a testament to how every family member's actions echo in the others' lives past and present. Marquez's way of describing all this is magical and mundane at once.
Just like all the miracolous and tragic events that happen again and again. There are so many genius elements! The Genius loci of a family house that keeps calling back its people and is peacefully haunted by them, political wars and events and that are forgotten because the official history has chosen to obliterate them, the power of nostalgia and what it really is. There is so much to unpack.
Apologies this is a little chaotic, I'm aware.
Note to self: favourite characters were probabily Remedios Buendìa, Colonel Aureliano Buendìa, Ursula and José Arcadio Buendìa.
Que genialidad la forma de contar la historia de una familia incluyéndola dentro de un universo irreal. El realismo mágico en todo su esplendor
یک بار یک نفر جرئت کرد تنهایی او را به هم بزند، وقتی از آنجا رد میشد پرسید:
«حالتان چطور است سرهنگ؟»
در جواب گفت:«به انتظار تشیع جنازهام نشستهام.»
«حالتان چطور است سرهنگ؟»
در جواب گفت:«به انتظار تشیع جنازهام نشستهام.»
Very slow reading but lovely book. Particularly hard (as others have said before) to keep track of the family tree and all the damn names. Ultimately I'm skeptical of this "magical realism". To me it feels just like an unreliable or even senile (like some of the characters) narrator.
what a load of bs. i firmly believe márquez is using the magical realism genre as a decoy to normalize the sexualization of children. but what makes this so unbearably revolting is the fact that i was only about 30+ pages into the book and there are already plenty of references to incest, rape, pedophilia, and the hypersexualization of literal children. it's frankly unnecessary and just straight-up creepy.
i finally get why this was "featured" in oprah's book club (whatever that's supposed to mean). really should've taken that as a sign to NOT get this book fml.
i finally get why this was "featured" in oprah's book club (whatever that's supposed to mean). really should've taken that as a sign to NOT get this book fml.
4.5 estrellas
Esta es la segunda vez que leo este libro y me gustó incluso más que la primera.
El único problema que tengo con el libro es que la segunda mitad del libro no es tan entretenida como la primera. En especial mi problema fueron los personajes masculinos. Todos parecían copias mal hechas de Aureliano y José Arcadio y por lo mismo no me importaba mucho que les ocurriera.
Esta es la segunda vez que leo este libro y me gustó incluso más que la primera.
El único problema que tengo con el libro es que la segunda mitad del libro no es tan entretenida como la primera. En especial mi problema fueron los personajes masculinos. Todos parecían copias mal hechas de Aureliano y José Arcadio y por lo mismo no me importaba mucho que les ocurriera.
Ouchie owie so many Jose’s! Uuh this is a really good book that my brain does not like. Hope to come back to it someday