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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

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lemonyemily's review against another edition

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dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

It's weird and I loved it.

daniellop's review against another edition

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5.0

Me ha matado por dentro. Me enganchó desde el inicio y esta tan bien escrito que es imposible dejar de pensar en él. Solo viene a confirmar que los libros sobre sagas familiares y el realismo mágico me flipan.

sliemann's review against another edition

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challenging emotional slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

toriacatt's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional funny inspiring slow-paced

5.0

tipostrambo's review against another edition

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2.0

Leaps and lurches from one random (though sometimes beautifully written) episode and half-thought to the next. The impression is of someone who took a very large stack of index cards, wrote down every single start of an idea that passed through his head on those cards, then rubber-banded the whole pile and handed it to his editor, who, trembling in the presence of a bonafide genius, didn’t change a word. I left feeling pummeled, and a little pissed off. I don’t care if this is the guy who wrote the achingly beautiful Love in the Time of Cholera, I don’t care if he’s a national treasure and won a freakin’ Nobel. In this particular case, the literary emperor has no clothes.