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A review by mitskacir
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
3.0
Mixed feelings about this book, but overall beautiful writing full of magic. This book tells the story of several generations of the Buendia family and the town of Macondo. Character's names, personalities, scandals, dramas, and hopes cycle through each generation, making the cyclical nature of life - and paradoxically it's ephemerality - quite apparent to the reader, and perhaps not so much to the book's characters.
The writing style reminded me greatly of Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate, which I enjoyed more because of the relateability of it's female characters. My third Gabriel García Márquez book, I've found I often feel like his female characters are not very realistic and are written through a male gaze (despite the fact that they are often strong, independent, and complex characters). This is a large part of why I took of a star.
The writing style reminded me greatly of Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate, which I enjoyed more because of the relateability of it's female characters. My third Gabriel García Márquez book, I've found I often feel like his female characters are not very realistic and are written through a male gaze (despite the fact that they are often strong, independent, and complex characters). This is a large part of why I took of a star.