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3.84 AVERAGE
3.84 AVERAGE
GGM’s got a way of finding poetry in little factual details, and reporting poetry like fact. It’s just a perfect little book.
yay another school book (not rlly but whatever) it was short which made it fine but the actual story kinda felt odd to me. it was also translated and i’m actually so bad at understanding books like that so let’s say i was rlly confused while reading this and leave it at that
challenging
dark
informative
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
reflective
medium-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
dark
funny
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A journey on the train ride of killing Santiago Nasar. The way Marquez writes makes you feel like you contributed. A great novel and short too.
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I had an old review on here, but I wrote it when I first joined the site, and it hit such a high level of embarrassing that I just had to delete it. Sorry, younger self. Nothing personal.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold was the first Marquez I ever read, for school, and I've been wanting to re-read it more or less since the moment I finished it back then. In high-school I was reading mostly young adult trash and Agatha Christie, so the idea that there was some decent literature that I liked even then is a testament to how great this little book is. I think it was one of the few things that everyone in my high school class liked, too.
It opens with the murder of Santiago Nasar, and the strange situation that surrounded it, which is that everyone in town knows Pablo and Pedro Vicario are waiting for Santiago Nasar so they can murder him, but no one warns Santiago Nasar. Either they assume he already knows, or they assume someone has stopped the Vicario brothers. It's kind of like a wide-scale example of the bystander effect.
Of the Marquez novels I've read, this is the least surreal - not much magical-realism in sight. Instead, this is written up in more of a journalistic evalution of the events, the narrator recounts the story from assorted witnesses, interviews them years later, assembling the wide list of coincidences and facts that resulted in Nasar's demise - however, it's done with Marquez's ever-beautiful way with words, single sentences that pierce the soul in exactly the right way.
Teenage Taylor didn't get a lot of things right, but she knew enough to know that this was a great little book, and she nailed it.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold was the first Marquez I ever read, for school, and I've been wanting to re-read it more or less since the moment I finished it back then. In high-school I was reading mostly young adult trash and Agatha Christie, so the idea that there was some decent literature that I liked even then is a testament to how great this little book is. I think it was one of the few things that everyone in my high school class liked, too.
It opens with the murder of Santiago Nasar, and the strange situation that surrounded it, which is that everyone in town knows Pablo and Pedro Vicario are waiting for Santiago Nasar so they can murder him, but no one warns Santiago Nasar. Either they assume he already knows, or they assume someone has stopped the Vicario brothers. It's kind of like a wide-scale example of the bystander effect.
Of the Marquez novels I've read, this is the least surreal - not much magical-realism in sight. Instead, this is written up in more of a journalistic evalution of the events, the narrator recounts the story from assorted witnesses, interviews them years later, assembling the wide list of coincidences and facts that resulted in Nasar's demise - however, it's done with Marquez's ever-beautiful way with words, single sentences that pierce the soul in exactly the right way.
Teenage Taylor didn't get a lot of things right, but she knew enough to know that this was a great little book, and she nailed it.