Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit by Gabriel García Márquez

274 reviews

joseph51latas's review against another edition

5.0

challenging reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book builds a vivid world that grows and dies over the course of a century. Isolation, recalcitrance, and the predetermination of history drive the characters and the plot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Incest, War

oachv's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Colonisation, War, Classism

jmdressel's review against another edition

3.5

dark funny mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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this book was a challenging read! the writing was very stream-of-consciousness focused, and so there was less of a reading story, and more just like someone was telling a story in person. this is the first book i’ve read in the magical realism genre. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Medical content

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Alcohol, War

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Excrement, Cannibalism, Colonisation, Classism

juiceman's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark funny reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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One of those books that you can’t fully appreciate until you have finished it. Wasn’t going to give it 5 stars until I got to the last page and suddenly found myself wishing I could read it with fresh eyes all over again, with the mystery and unknowing of where it was all going. Where are we all going?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Gun violence, Incest, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual violence

Moderate: Sexism, Suicide, Vomit, Murder

Minor: Death, Eating disorder, Miscarriage, Antisemitism, Dementia, Pregnancy, Colonisation, War

annagrimmyy's review against another edition

1.0

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Dnf at 135 pages 

I can understand why this is considered an important piece of literature. 

That being said, due to the fact that every female character is raped (up until 135 pages at least), I cannot believe that to this day people are heralding this book without critiquing the way women are treated. Gave up reading as quite frankly there are better classics that deserve my time more than this load of horseshit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Domestic abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Murder, Pregnancy, War

lolosadcat's review against another edition

5.0

dark reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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this book has some of the most consistently superb writing that i've read - not only in prose, but structure as well. the plot of this book isn't so much a linear plot as much it is the meandering story of the rise and fall of a line of people and their town, jumping around points of time. however, every story beat and reveal feels carefully placed and the entire book has great, steady pacing. 
that being said, i would recommend reading this with the family tree accessible to help remember the character's names and relationships. the repeating names can be confusing to track, but they are important to the themes of certain traits and flaws repeating in the family. 

definitely one of the most fascinating books that i have ever read. i'll be thinking of this doomed family and their exploits for quite a while. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Animal death, Pedophilia, Racism, War

glorifiedloveletters's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional funny sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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On Bluesky, there's a monthly book club that seems to be mostly "I always meant to read that" selections, and this is one of those books. I'm so glad I decided to participate because, yes, this is worth reading. ("Sara, this book is one of the best known..." YEAH I KNOW, but sometimes you gotta state the obvious.)

Some of the deaths and uh..... relations.... are a bit hard to stomach, but that's part of the point of the book and isn't just because of changing times. You'll also have to flip back to the family tree at the beginning in order to keep track of all the Aurelianos. The rest is a wild ride of magic and devastation, and it's a masterclass of descriptive writing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Medical trauma, Colonisation

Moderate: Animal death

fluttertutter's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 24%

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the writing is good but i just can’t get into it :( there’s like no plot and very confusing which i’m like am i too dumb for this??? and since there’s not really any plot there isn’t like a ‘moral of the story’ kind of direction that it’s going too and i’m just not sure what i can takeaway from the story when im like almost a quarter into the book 🥲 relationships in this book were all kinda weird too and at where i stopped there’s pedophilia and sort of incest too so if anyone is uncomfortable with that here’s your warning 

 

last straw came when aureliano wants to marry a child (he is old enough to be her father) and then he literally grooms her teaching her how to read etc while waiting for her to hit puberty so that he can marry her and then she dies…??? the whole rebeca and amaranta part was weird too im so confused

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia

adhdru's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 47%

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A pesar de ser un clásico que quise amar, ni el conocer al icónico Macondo ni a las leyendas de la familia Buendía lograron encantarme como lo ha logrado con gran parte del mundo. 

Este libro es indiscutiblemente centrado mas en los personajes que en cualquier tipo de trama. Normalmente, esto es una plusvalía para mí en los libros, pero en este caso en el que los personajes son complejos pero tan desagradables (y no en esa manera que me hace amarlos más) solo he hecho la lectura de apenas la mitad del libro un gran tedio. 

Por otro lado, la narración de Juan Pablo Raba me ha parecido bastante buena. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, War, Classism

noranorasolosolo's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 17%

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Excruciating to read, wild ass prose tho

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Incest