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Cem Anos de Solidão by Gabriel García Márquez

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glorifiedloveletters's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny sad slow-paced

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

4.5

On Bluesky, there's a monthly book club that seems to be mostly "I always meant to read that" selections, and this is one of those books. I'm so glad I decided to participate because, yes, this is worth reading. ("Sara, this book is one of the best known..." YEAH I KNOW, but sometimes you gotta state the obvious.)

Some of the deaths and uh..... relations.... are a bit hard to stomach, but that's part of the point of the book and isn't just because of changing times. You'll also have to flip back to the family tree at the beginning in order to keep track of all the Aurelianos. The rest is a wild ride of magic and devastation, and it's a masterclass of descriptive writing.

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fluttertutter's review against another edition

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the writing is good but i just can’t get into it :( there’s like no plot and very confusing which i’m like am i too dumb for this??? and since there’s not really any plot there isn’t like a ‘moral of the story’ kind of direction that it’s going too and i’m just not sure what i can takeaway from the story when im like almost a quarter into the book 🥲 relationships in this book were all kinda weird too and at where i stopped there’s pedophilia and sort of incest too so if anyone is uncomfortable with that here’s your warning

last straw came when aureliano wants to marry a child (he is old enough to be her father) and then he literally grooms her teaching her how to read etc while waiting for her to hit puberty so that he can marry her and then she dies…??? the whole rebeca and amaranta part was weird too im so confused

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adhdru's review against another edition

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A pesar de ser un clásico que quise amar, ni el conocer al icónico Macondo ni a las leyendas de la familia Buendía lograron encantarme como lo ha logrado con gran parte del mundo.

Este libro es indiscutiblemente centrado mas en los personajes que en cualquier tipo de trama. Normalmente, esto es una plusvalía para mí en los libros, pero en este caso en el que los personajes son complejos pero tan desagradables (y no en esa manera que me hace amarlos más) solo he hecho la lectura de apenas la mitad del libro un gran tedio.

Por otro lado, la narración de Juan Pablo Raba me ha parecido bastante buena.

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noranorasolosolo's review against another edition

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Excruciating to read, wild ass prose tho

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vineivy's review against another edition

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dark funny reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Will be thinking about this for ages. The magical realism is so cool to me, it feels different from fantasy in that it's just what the world felt like back then. Magical happenings and tales told between towns were real. The characters are all EXTREMELY flawed, which is a main draw of the book. The way it's written is exactly what I like. Not too much flowery language, getting to the meat of what's happening.

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