false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171542653m/105189.jpg 105189 33 This is Marquez's account of a real-life event. In 1955, eight crew members of the destroyer Caldas, were swept into the Caribbean Sea. The sole survivor, Luis Alejandro Belasco, told the true version of the events to Marquez, causing great scandal at the time. 7893082 2006 total:932|5:208|4:365|3:272|2:71|1:16| 932 3474 1220 74 4 2 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 16 05:52:03 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 20 11:36:23 -0800 2008 The Old Man and the Sea, John Steinbeck's The Pearl...)

Been meaning to read GGM for ages, but a mammoth novel can be intimidating. So when I saw this slim volume on the shelf, I picked it up. Discoveri...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 21 14:38:35 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 21 14:47:25 -0700 2007 shipwrecked sailor reminds me a lot of life of pi with the whole lost-on-a-boat-trying-to-find-a-reason-to-survive plot. in my opinion, sailor kicks pi's ass hands down because it really fucking happened to this guy. yikes.

i was totally immersed in the world this book creates. i read ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sat Apr 25 05:56:16 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 09:45:36 -0700 2009 Amazon.com one day, probably for a book on poetry about the sea, and this came up as one of those "you might also like this" links. To be honest, I've never read anything by Gabriel Garcia Marquez before...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Nov 18 09:23:56 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 18 09:24:23 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Jan 12 20:17:02 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 12 20:48:23 -0800 2008
I guess the book suffers more from my mistak...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 03 07:24:15 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 07 07:12:53 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon May 14 09:00:54 -0700 2007 Tue May 15 08:58:53 -0700 2007 The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor was originally published as a fourteen part newspaper story in 1955. Written as a first person account, the book tells about a sailor in the Colombian navy, who is knocked overboard and survives for 10 days on a raft...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 16 12:43:57 -0700 2008 Sat May 17 07:48:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 12:44:15 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 12:44:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 10:02:06 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 10:02:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Nov 15 18:20:40 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 18:23:53 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 01 13:45:30 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 00:15:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Sep 05 09:09:43 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 05 09:15:30 -0700 2007
The fact that this is a non-fiction piece...a piece that is part of Garcia-Marquez' journalism portfolio makes ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Mon Feb 04 07:48:33 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 04 08:04:11 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 16:35:08 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 16:42:13 -0700 2009 El relato, es casi anecdótico: alguien en este mundo queda a merced de todo: el mar, el sol abrasador, los tiburones, la sed en un mar repleto -no es casual- de agua, el hambre, la desesperanza, la soledad.
Esa historia que...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Oct 03 14:04:27 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 03 14:04:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Mar 05 14:17:38 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 14:19:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 11:52:58 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 13:48:43 -0800 2009 The Old Man and The Sea and Life of Pi. Especially told in the way as these three stories mentioned... awesome.more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Fri Apr 11 09:37:28 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 11 09:40:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 true false Wed Jan 07 01:39:54 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 01:40:08 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=105189