Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

18 reviews

jsuispoesie's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.25

When I was 15 y.o. - after bein  traumatised by the description of an abort in the first part of the narration - I decided I woul  never read this book.  Here I am, ten years later, after finishing this terribly long book, with the unpleasant sensation that this is gonna be one of the best reading of the year. Let's be clear, I absolutely despise the scene of rape and child abuse that the narrator throws in the stories like nothing. There are too many characters, and after a while I started to hate everyone because the characters I loved were no longer the center of the story. I'm not sure I completely understood all the war part, but I guess it's kinda the point of it. After all it really seemed like a spent a hundred years reading this, but at the end of the day I could not - not - like these characters, only because I saw them from the beginning of their life to their end. I don't give it 5 stars for the reasons I enumerated, but gosh I hate the fact that I liked this book!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Pedophilia, and War

Moderate: Alcoholism, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Vomit, Rape, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Child death, Incest, and Alcohol

Minor: Genocide

robbie_russen's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Violence, and War

Minor: Suicide and Miscarriage

izzie_chamomilletea's review

adventurous reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This was insane
And I loved it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest

Moderate: War and Miscarriage

isarza's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

Siempre disfruto mucho dem realismo mágico. 
Intenté leer este libro hace muchos años y me exasperó el hecho de que todos se llamaban igual. Esta segunda vez disfruté mucho de la primera parte del libro y pude entender que sus destinos estaban sellados por los nombres, estaban condenados a repetirse.
Me gustó mucho cómo se manejó el tiempo como algo cíclico a pesar de que generalmente odio ese tipo de historias porque creo que forzar a los personajes a terminar en el mismo lugar en el que empezaron estanca su crecimiento y es un retroceso en la mayoría de los casos.
Sin embargo creo que es un libro DEMASIADO largo. La primera parte es muy entretenida pero los personajes de la segunda mitad no son tan interesantes como los de la primera. 
Fernanda es insufrible y sus hijos también, la historia decayó a partir de que ella llegó.

Además de que todo el incesto y la pedofilia me parecieron sumamente desagradables. Esa fue la razón de que no pudiera llegar ni a la mitad del libro la primera vez y saber que es el tema más recurrente en el libro. García Marquez te lo quiere poner como que es el amor y que el último Aureliano terminó con todo porque sí fue concebido con amor pero fue resultado de una relación incestuosa. Es el segundo libro de García Marquez que leo que tiene esos temas y hace que me de miedo leer más de él porque qué perro asco. Espero que se lo hayan comido las hormigas también a él por viejo cochino

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Incest, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Racism, Adult/minor relationship, Miscarriage, Animal death, Religious bigotry, Dementia, and Mental illness

zendthyl's review against another edition

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, War, Adult/minor relationship, Dementia, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Police brutality, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Child abuse, Gun violence, Murder, Sexual assault, Eating disorder, Genocide, Incest, and Violence

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

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

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

lizzzitro's review against another edition

challenging mysterious sad tense 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Child death, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Violence, Vomit, Eating disorder, Incest, Mass/school shootings, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Rape, War, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, and Suicide attempt

ana610615's review

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-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: Police brutality, Sexual violence, Violence, War, Adult/minor relationship, Murder, Sexual assault, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Suicide, Colonisation, Death, Grief, Rape, and Sexism

ran_sophia's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

The book reads me well and I was able to orient in the story, which surprised me quite a bit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Rape, Forced institutionalization, and Medical content

Moderate: Colonisation, Sexism, Miscarriage, War, Self harm, and Death

Minor: Homophobia, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, and Child death