One Hundred Years of Solitude in Read Between the Wines

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez,

Gregory Rabassa (Translator)

Start date: January 1, 2015

Finish date: January 31, 2015

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May 20, 2011 Jason rated it did not like it

Shelves: wine-club, reviewed, abandonment-issues

I stalled so hard on this book. Mostly because it鈥檚 terrible, but also because my life is insane right now and I鈥檓 finding it hard to concentrate on anything.

(But mostly because it鈥檚 terrible.)

I think people love this book because of the way it makes them feeeeeel. It鈥檚 a highly romanticized account of a family of settlers in a magical town known as something (I forget what because I don鈥檛 care). But nothing really鈥�happens. And while some of my favorite books are ones in which stuff 诲辞别蝉苍鈥檛 real ...more

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Jan 28, 2013 Lyn Elliott rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: translation, prize-winners, fiction, latin-america

My favourite of all Marquez鈥� books, I think.

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Jul 31, 2008 Kate LaClair rated it liked it · review of another edition

This book started and ended strong, but the middle dragged a bit, probably because it covered the span of 100 years and included multiple characters with the same name, which got pretty confusing, even after referencing the family tree in the front of the book. I think I probably would have been happier with about 50 years of solitude.

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