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aaronjs's review against another edition
funny
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- 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
pollypocket48's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
5.0
dazzlingreader_'s review against another edition
challenging
emotional
funny
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
this book its a wonderful mix between non-fiction and fantasy, the stories can make you feel uneasy, disgust, love and also angry, sometimes thinking about the Buendías as a crazy family to just see them as what they really are a intricated family tree with more than just one turn.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Dementia, Toxic friendship, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Abandonment, Confinement, Incest, Physical abuse, Sexual content, War, and Violence
piper_may's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
5.0
the people are such People. he understands relationships in the same fundamental way tolstoy and ferrante do. gosh i’m ready to reread it already!!
bibliotecabecca's review against another edition
challenging
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
lloaiza's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
fcty's review against another edition
5.0
i wasn’t sure how much i was going to like this when i started reading it and realised how much incest and pedophilia is in this book, but this book honestly took my breath away. the further into the book i got the more things started to click into place in my brain and i read the last page with an ache in my heart. i don’t think any other book that features magical realism, generational trauma and the cyclical nature of history can be fairly compared to this, because i thought the elements of magical realism were so well-woven into the story that it felt natural to hear that a random character can shit diamonds (though i acknowledge that i need to read more LatAm lit since ‘magical realism’ is more akin to a way of viewing the world). all this alongside astute critique of Columbian and Latin American governance, the military, the complicity of imperialist first world nations in exploiting the third world for capitalistic gains and the subsequent loss of a unique culture to the forces of globalisation, and finally, a warning against nostalgia.
(side note: gabriel garcía márquez could conceive of almost every member of the Buendia family being incestuous, with some of them being pedophiles and one offhand implication of bestiality, but couldn’t conceive of any of them engaging in homosexuality?? come on)
(side note: gabriel garcía márquez could conceive of almost every member of the Buendia family being incestuous, with some of them being pedophiles and one offhand implication of bestiality, but couldn’t conceive of any of them engaging in homosexuality?? come on)
jerushae's review against another edition
3.0
I knew going into this that Magical Realism wasn’t for me, but if it’s your thing, this is the book for you. I found if I couldn’t read for at least 45 minutes at a time, I had trouble getting into the book. It bounces all over the place and in some instances, an interaction takes up several pages while in others months pass in a single sentence. All that said, I was still invested in the characters and interested to see where the story took them.