false <![CDATA[Relato De Un Naufrago]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167484138m/23900.jpg 105189 29 Translated by Randolf Hogan. In 1955, Garcia Marquez was working for <i>El Espectador</i>, a newspaper in Bogota, when in February of that year eight crew members of the Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were washed overboard and disappeared. Ten days later one of them turned up, barely alive, on a deserted beach in northern Colombia. This book, which originally appeared as a series of newspaper articles, is Garcia Marquez's account of that sailor's ordeal. 1997528 1384 The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (International Writers) total:893|5:197|4:348|3:265|2:69|1:14| 893 3324 1172 68 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...]]> 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...]]> 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 Thu Mar 05 14:17:38 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 14:19:16 -0800 2009 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...]]> 4 0 true false Wed Jan 07 01:39:54 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 01:40:08 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 16 12:43:57 -0700 2008 Sat May 17 07:48:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Dec 27 19:54:26 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 20:04:51 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Tue Feb 03 21:34:50 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 22:58:27 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 15:06:37 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 15:09:46 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 12:54:19 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 12:56:27 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jan 12 05:21:44 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 05:23:11 -0800 2009 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...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 12:31:54 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 12:35:59 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Thu Jan 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 13:08:56 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 13:09:54 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=23900