Julia's comments (member since Nov 10, 2009)

Julia's comments from the Latin American Literature and Magical Realism group.

Never mind, Linda, i've got some trouble getting into it as well.......now i'm on holiday in berlin and have started something else in between, and i'm not yet sure if i will get back to amado's book very soon........i think i was about 130 pages into the book when i forgot it back home and i was still waiting for the story to start......the threads of the story seemd really disattached from each other and while i quite liked some parts, others bored me to death....well, but i'll give it another try as well.....Nicole, have you already read it completely? and did you like it? (let me know if it's worth putting more effort into it.....:-)

I've started with it today (somehow i really managed to finish my last book yesterday evening, yay!!!!) and i'm really looking forward to discussing this with you.......not much to say yet, as i just had some minutes on the bus, but hopefully soon more.....

for me as well, great....

Hey Linda, that sounds really interesting, i'll see if your uni library has it - i have to admit i've never heard of Mastrata, but she sounds like an author worthwhile checking out.....

muchas gracias, Polyana.......i'll give it a try, especially as you say it's such a fast read, and it'd be good to read some gabo again - i've been neglecting him for a while....

and really interesting to hear your opinion on The General in his Labyrinth , maybe i'll give it another chance now that i've learned more about Latin American history......i read it when i was still in high school, and had virtually no notion at all, and i think i never finished it.....

i did love One Hundred Years of Solitude, of course, and i quite liked Love in times of the Colera and Of Love and other Demons, but i just couldn't finish The General in his Labyrinth - it was so PLAIN boring and unwinding.....but maybe you're right and it's also because here Simón Bolívar is much less known and the whole idea of a unified Latin America leaves us more unaffected.....still, maybe it's just me, as i usually have problems with books which include lots of military strategy and descriptions of fights and stuff, i suppose that's just not for me........Anyone has read Memories of my Melancholy Whores? I'm thinking about reading it, but there's so much other stuff on my to-read-list at the moment that probably it'll take some while (except some of you tell me it's the best book ever...)

Hey Nicole, i've just joined the group, but sounds great.....i've done some portuguese as well, and would love to read more in that language.....