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gameonysus's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
The drama of this book had entertaining moments and some of the lines are really well written. The best thing about this book is it gives you a really strong sense of setting. Good at painting a picture but I just thought it was alright. Not in love with it.
Content Warnings
Minor: Gore
meg_elyse's review against another edition
challenging
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Gore, Blood, Body horror, and Medical content
chaoticnostalgia's review against another edition
challenging
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence
Moderate: Alcohol and Misogyny
Minor: Sexism, Sexual content, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, and Excrement
_lovedelirium's review against another edition
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
4.0
18/06/2023
Tan exasperante como la primera vez que lo leí. Cómo lo dice el del prólogo, si bien desde el primer párrafo se plantea que Santiago Nasar muere, una no puede pero esperar que algo a través de la historia cambie su destino, y cuesta resignarse a lo contrario.
Como la muerte hace de todos unos santos, porque a cómo de describe a Santiago intuye una que no era personaje agradable, y sin embargo, ahí va uno con el pobre Santiago Nasar!!!
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2015
Tengo mi examen de español en aproximadamente dos horas y recién termino el libro. No esperaba que en realidad me fuera a gustar tanto como lo hizo, pero así fue. Ahora sólo espero que eso juegue a mi favor en este examen!
Tan exasperante como la primera vez que lo leí. Cómo lo dice el del prólogo, si bien desde el primer párrafo se plantea que Santiago Nasar muere, una no puede pero esperar que algo a través de la historia cambie su destino, y cuesta resignarse a lo contrario.
Como la muerte hace de todos unos santos, porque a cómo de describe a Santiago intuye una que no era personaje agradable, y sin embargo, ahí va uno con el pobre Santiago Nasar!!!
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2015
Tengo mi examen de español en aproximadamente dos horas y recién termino el libro. No esperaba que en realidad me fuera a gustar tanto como lo hizo, pero así fue. Ahora sólo espero que eso juegue a mi favor en este examen!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore and Murder
kirame's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Murder, and Death
Moderate: Violence, Infidelity, Medical content, Misogyny, and Alcohol
Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, and Animal death
taylorlanxon's review against another edition
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? No
3.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Gore
pasavedra's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Murder, Gore, Sexual harassment, Sexism, and Violence
quillify_'s review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Classism, Cursing, Death, Misogyny, Murder, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Colonisation, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Sexism, and Sexual violence
susannah_knox's review against another edition
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
tense
medium-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
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore, Murder, Misogyny, Blood, Death, and Sexual assault
andra_mihaela_s's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
"Chronicle of a Death Foretold" is another masterpece by Gabriel Garcia Marquez!
In this short novel, we follow the narrator as he tries to reconstruct the events of a tragedy 27 years after, through a journalistic approach. Maquez starts from a simple premise that packs a powerful punch, letting you, the reader, perplexed why nobody tried to stop the anounced crime?!
Here is my rough translation of the back of my copy (I believe is perfect in giving you not only an idea about what you're going to read, but also in creating a solid image about this comunity):
<i>Many from those in the port knew Santiago Nassar was to be killed. Don Lazaro Aponte, a colonel from the military academy, now in reserve, and mayor for eleven years, greeted him with his fingers."I had my own justified motifs to believe there wasn't any danger to him anymore", said he. Not even father Carmen Amador worried:"When I saw him safe and sound, I thought everything was a lie", he told me.
No one even wondered if Santiago Nassar was warned, because it seemed impossible to everyone that he wasn't... </i>
In my opinion, this book talks about how people react in extraordinary circumstances, how they search for a way to shine light onto themselves and their part in the story, instead of the actual subject. I think the beginning, with Santiago's mother, Dona Placida Linero's account of her son's dreams to the narrator gives me a solid proof the author wanted to express why and how a tragedy can and will become about everybody else but the victim.
Due to it being so short and so impactful, I won't speak about the plot too much.
Just like when people give interviews about an event, with each perspective( be it from the colonel, the priest, Santiago's mother,etc.) we start the story fresh at some point in that fatal day. An interesting fact which I want to mention is the strange connection people had for the crime...and that was the coming of the bishop...funny how such a tragedy was weighted only as important as a anual event(from what I gathered...the locals mention the bishop's favorite dish, they prepare for a speech, know exactly when to come by the docks,etc.)
This is very much a story after the crime, and how people moved on, more or less affected. We get the tale between the wealthy stranger, Bayardo San Roman, and the poor girl, Angela Vicario(...btw...the ending to this was wild!>..>), the priest and colonel who couldn't understand how they judged so wrong, we get a somewhat removed account of how the crime was conducted by the Vicario brothers, Pablo and Pedro(interesting choice as everything else is said by someone, yet here we get an almost omnicient perspective), we get the exoneration of the "white man"'s family/household (Santiago is called "white man" by several people in their account; we find out he's actualy an Arab/Turk...or at least that's what the villagers said...>..>), Mrs. Clotilde Armenta - the store owner who had more than enough time to intervine, and the personal story given by the narrator presenting his grief in not doing anything. (once again interesting choice..as the 27 years of not doing anything).
We have other additions to all these reports, that, combined with the tidbits about the village, the importance of the bishop's coming, and the detail account about the wedding party, create such a great story that will force you to read it in one sitting!
My favorite characters are Angela and Mrs. Armenta, and my least favorite, the victim's mother.
As the construction of this novel implies, we get to see very little about our protagonist in absentia; it goes so far that the victim is declared someone else in all this! :)))
Santiago, in my opinion, was not a good person, but he wasn't bad either. In his last hours when everyone knew what was going to happen he was glorified and a victim(the only time he was portrayed as such), so that imediately after to become a grotesque vision and, later on, the means of self-indulgence.
<b>I won't give content warning for this novel due to it containing a major spoiler in regards to the plot, but if you read before from Garcia Marquez, his unexpected grotesque descriptions are not missing from this one!</b>
I highly recomend this book to everyone!
<i>-Santiago, my hijo, she shouted, what happened with you?
Santiago Nassar recognized her.
-They killed me, tia Wene, he said.</i>
Enjoy
In this short novel, we follow the narrator as he tries to reconstruct the events of a tragedy 27 years after, through a journalistic approach. Maquez starts from a simple premise that packs a powerful punch, letting you, the reader, perplexed why nobody tried to stop the anounced crime?!
Here is my rough translation of the back of my copy (I believe is perfect in giving you not only an idea about what you're going to read, but also in creating a solid image about this comunity):
<i>Many from those in the port knew Santiago Nassar was to be killed. Don Lazaro Aponte, a colonel from the military academy, now in reserve, and mayor for eleven years, greeted him with his fingers."I had my own justified motifs to believe there wasn't any danger to him anymore", said he. Not even father Carmen Amador worried:"When I saw him safe and sound, I thought everything was a lie", he told me.
No one even wondered if Santiago Nassar was warned, because it seemed impossible to everyone that he wasn't... </i>
In my opinion, this book talks about how people react in extraordinary circumstances, how they search for a way to shine light onto themselves and their part in the story, instead of the actual subject. I think the beginning, with Santiago's mother, Dona Placida Linero's account of her son's dreams to the narrator gives me a solid proof the author wanted to express why and how a tragedy can and will become about everybody else but the victim.
Due to it being so short and so impactful, I won't speak about the plot too much.
Just like when people give interviews about an event, with each perspective( be it from the colonel, the priest, Santiago's mother,etc.) we start the story fresh at some point in that fatal day. An interesting fact which I want to mention is the strange connection people had for the crime...and that was the coming of the bishop...funny how such a tragedy was weighted only as important as a anual event(from what I gathered...the locals mention the bishop's favorite dish, they prepare for a speech, know exactly when to come by the docks,etc.)
This is very much a story after the crime, and how people moved on, more or less affected. We get the tale between the wealthy stranger, Bayardo San Roman, and the poor girl, Angela Vicario(...btw...the ending to this was wild!>..>), the priest and colonel who couldn't understand how they judged so wrong, we get a somewhat removed account of how the crime was conducted by the Vicario brothers, Pablo and Pedro(interesting choice as everything else is said by someone, yet here we get an almost omnicient perspective), we get the exoneration of the "white man"'s family/household (Santiago is called "white man" by several people in their account; we find out he's actualy an Arab/Turk...or at least that's what the villagers said...>..>), Mrs. Clotilde Armenta - the store owner who had more than enough time to intervine, and the personal story given by the narrator presenting his grief in not doing anything. (once again interesting choice..as the 27 years of not doing anything).
We have other additions to all these reports, that, combined with the tidbits about the village, the importance of the bishop's coming, and the detail account about the wedding party, create such a great story that will force you to read it in one sitting!
My favorite characters are Angela and Mrs. Armenta, and my least favorite, the victim's mother.
As the construction of this novel implies, we get to see very little about our protagonist in absentia; it goes so far that the victim is declared someone else in all this! :)))
Santiago, in my opinion, was not a good person, but he wasn't bad either. In his last hours when everyone knew what was going to happen he was glorified and a victim(the only time he was portrayed as such), so that imediately after to become a grotesque vision and, later on, the means of self-indulgence.
<b>I won't give content warning for this novel due to it containing a major spoiler in regards to the plot, but if you read before from Garcia Marquez, his unexpected grotesque descriptions are not missing from this one!</b>
I highly recomend this book to everyone!
<i>-Santiago, my hijo, she shouted, what happened with you?
Santiago Nassar recognized her.
-They killed me, tia Wene, he said.</i>
Enjoy
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder, Death, Violence, Hate crime, and Gore
Moderate: Emotional abuse
Minor: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Suicide attempt