One Hundred Years of Solitude

"Alright, I've made two separate attempts to make it through this book and both times have failed, so I am giving up for awhile and moving on. I would like to finish it someday, but can't do it right now. While I appreciate the trippy dream-like bizarre scenarios so vividly created through intense imagery, plot and character-wise the book is too fragmented & strange for me to follow through and keep track of even what is happening."

"DNF from me, too many triggers and hard to follow along with all the storylines and names"

"This book was honestly kind of hard to follow. It's been on my radar for a while but I figured since it's Hispanic Heritage month, why not finally pick it up? Well, I'm not sure how I feel about it. 3.25/5 stars. I honestly don't have a ton of thoughts on it."

"Everything happens all at once, time dissolves away, and recurring events repeat endlessly. It’s dreamy and bizarre yet somehow feels really familiar in a weird way. It’s a very unique mode of writing and an odd reading experience that is definitely singular, but I slogged through this and the experience for me was not very enjoyable."

"This is on my list to again. Wonderful..."

"The best literacy in magical realism "

"Beautiful writing and gripping narration of the journey of human life through an undulating literary gymnastics and unparalleled storytelling. I wish I understood Spanish so that I could read the original writing."

"While initially the overly descriptive nature of García Marquez can be a bit boring, this book is hands down one of the best I've ever read. The intrige and depth of the characters unravels as you follow the family to lead you to a book ending that nothing has ever achieved in terms of sensation for me, making me hungrily turn every page in a crescendo of words to culminate in an ending that made me feel empty once I put the book down because I knew nothing could compare to reading it again for the first time. If I could, I would in a heartbeat read it for the first time again. I read it in Spanish, as I am Colombian and is my native language, and there are definitely some things lost in translation. If you have the chance to read it in spanish I cannot recommend it enough. "

"WOW!"