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3.84 AVERAGE
3.84 AVERAGE
I think this is the best book I’ve ever read for school
When I first started this book, I'll admit I was a little confused. It seemed to be a story about a murder that everyone knew was coming, everyone knew why, and everyone already knew who committed it. So overall it felt like a detailed solved mystery report about the event from different angles. It isn't until the end that everything you thought you knew may not have been true at all. Amazing book!
dark
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-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:
Complicated
this man could write. i love his books. what a legend. such drama such prose. chef’s kiss
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder
challenging
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
GMM always delivers incredible writing and this one is no different. Some real banger sentences in here. Doesn't hit quite as hard as 100 Years of Solitude tho, might warrant a reread
Reading this directly after One Hundred Years of Solitude was serendipitous. It was a bite-sized version of Marquez's style that calls back to itself. In the same way as One Hundred Years of Solitude, it sweeps you off your feet as the story carries you along before you truly get to the bottom of what is happening. The events leading to the murder of Santiago Nasar seem to be their own character in this story, driving away reason while at the same time barreling towards Santiago's fate.
"But the main attraction was the father: General Petronio San Roman, hero of the civil wars of the past century, and one of the major glories of the Conservative regime for having put Colonel Aureliano Buenda to flight in the disaster of Tucurinca. My mother was the only one who wouldn't go to greet him when she found out who he was. "It seems all right to me that they should get married," she told me. "But that's one thing and it's something altogether different to shake hands with the man who gave the orders for Gerineldo Marquez to be shot in the back."" p. 33
"I was to ask the butchers sometime later whether or not the trade of slaughterer didn't reveal a soul predisposed to killing a human being. They protested: "When you sacrifice a steer you don't dare look into its eyes." One of them told me that he couldn't eat the flesh of an animal he had butchered. Another said that he wouldn't be capable of sacrificing a cow if he'd known it before, much less if he'd drunk its milk. I reminded them that the Vicario brothers sacrificed the same hogs they raised, which were so familiar to them that they called them by their names. "That's true," one of them replied, "but remember that they didn't give them people's names but the names of flowers." Faustino Santos was the only one who perceived a glimmer of truth in Pablo Vicario's threat, and he asked him jokingly why they had to kill Santiago Nasar since there were so many other rich people who deserved dying first" p. 52
"But the main attraction was the father: General Petronio San Roman, hero of the civil wars of the past century, and one of the major glories of the Conservative regime for having put Colonel Aureliano Buenda to flight in the disaster of Tucurinca. My mother was the only one who wouldn't go to greet him when she found out who he was. "It seems all right to me that they should get married," she told me. "But that's one thing and it's something altogether different to shake hands with the man who gave the orders for Gerineldo Marquez to be shot in the back."" p. 33
"I was to ask the butchers sometime later whether or not the trade of slaughterer didn't reveal a soul predisposed to killing a human being. They protested: "When you sacrifice a steer you don't dare look into its eyes." One of them told me that he couldn't eat the flesh of an animal he had butchered. Another said that he wouldn't be capable of sacrificing a cow if he'd known it before, much less if he'd drunk its milk. I reminded them that the Vicario brothers sacrificed the same hogs they raised, which were so familiar to them that they called them by their names. "That's true," one of them replied, "but remember that they didn't give them people's names but the names of flowers." Faustino Santos was the only one who perceived a glimmer of truth in Pablo Vicario's threat, and he asked him jokingly why they had to kill Santiago Nasar since there were so many other rich people who deserved dying first" p. 52
I think the expectations were too high. You know, Marquez and his magical realism, everybody portrays him as the god of South American writing, whose every word is magic. Well, I preferred Bulgakov's magical realism. However saying this the end is superb.Contrary to many books that I have read, that suddenly just finish as if the author has got bored of his book, this book has a well thought ending that grips you. Unfortunately it did not grip me on the way to the end. Probably best read in a single sitting (which I failed to do)
Comme le titre l’indique, ce roman est une tragédie. quelqu’un va mourir pour réparer l’honneur perdu. Le narrateur essaye de reconstituer les événements.
Tout le monde est au courant mais personne ne fait rien (ou pas assez) pour empêcher ce qui va se passer.
Par contre, je déteste que l’élément déclencheur soit une meuf qui est ramené par son nouveau mari chez ses parents parce qu’elle est pas vierge. Et tout le monde trouve ça normal que le gars ramène la marchandise.
Tout le monde est au courant mais personne ne fait rien (ou pas assez) pour empêcher ce qui va se passer.
Par contre, je déteste que l’élément déclencheur soit une meuf qui est ramené par son nouveau mari chez ses parents parce qu’elle est pas vierge. Et tout le monde trouve ça normal que le gars ramène la marchandise.
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes