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Title: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory Rabassa ISBN: 0-07-243423-6 Publisher: McGraw-Hill College Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $12.80 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.54 (404 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the Best Ever
Comment: Gabriel Garcia Marquez has written many interesting and beautiful books about his native Colombia. This is, pardon the expression, the granddaddy of them all. It tells the story of the Buendia family who left a town near the coast and traveled through the mountains to found the town of Macondo in the interior of the country.
The plot tells the story of several generations of the family and chronicles, in an almost off-hand way, the revolutions/civil wars that plagued Colombia throughout its history, the amazements of invention and technology of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the strength and drama of family, and of course the romance in life.
If this is the first Garcia book you read, it will take some time to get used to the book. The characters have similar names, and the story twists and turns through time, going back and forth almost at will. The characters and the author all accept magical events as commonplace. A few of the deeper thoughts may be difficult to understand; I know there were some sentences that were too deep for me. But, above all, you will be charmed by the beautiful writing, engrossed by the plot and in love with the world that Garcia creates.
Rating: 5
Summary: THIS BOOK SHOULD BE REQUIRED READING AT EVERY HIGHSCHOOL!
Comment: I was not forced to read this in higschool; I was not forced to read it in college where I took several literature classes. It's a shame it took me so long to discover such a masterpiece and I wish I could go back to make this novel more influential throughout my ENTIRE life. The magical realism of this novel is unbelievable. It leads to a very exciting epic journey into the livliehood of hundreds of years in generation after generation of a family. The passion of the author seeps through it's every page. I believe it was a descriptive account of the feelings a young boy had growing up in Columbia through all of it's governmental changes; and how it changed his life in such a way to be able to write such a moving work of art. I believe it speaks to all of us, that we can all identify with SOMEOME in the book, and is a portrayal of what we all come to know as a familial circular history. As sad and tragic as it may be sometimes. I can definitley say that this book changed my perspective and thinking in some ways and I only wish I had had the experience earlier.
Rating: 5
Summary: Absolutely Amazing.
Comment: This is definately one of my all time favorite books. The trick is to pay close attention to the family tree in front so you don't get confused. It's a great read for anyone interested in history, anthropology, english, lit.... Serious and amusing, nothing comes close to describing how perfect this book describes humanity. Read it.
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Title: Love in the Time of Cholera (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ISBN: 0140119906 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith Grossman ISBN: 1400041341 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: One Hundred Years of Solitude [Cliffs Notes Study] ISBN: 0822009641 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: 01 February, 1984 List Price(USD): $3.50 |
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Title: Collected Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ISBN: 0060932686 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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Title: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club) by Carson McCullers ISBN: 0618526412 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 21 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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