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This book was brilliant in so many ways. The prose is gorgeous and surreal, the story is often hilarious, and I loved García-Márquez's technique of giving characters the same name/similar temperament through the generations.
The pacing, however, drove me mad. There was no ebb and flow, no crescendo. Wars and incest were written at the same breathless pace as baking bread. Sometimes I just wanted to slow down and savor what was happening, and instead I was thrust forward in time. ...more
The pacing, however, drove me mad. There was no ebb and flow, no crescendo. Wars and incest were written at the same breathless pace as baking bread. Sometimes I just wanted to slow down and savor what was happening, and instead I was thrust forward in time. ...more
This book made me feel less of the 'ardent reader' that I thought I was...I tried, I really really tried, because I know that I'm 'supposed to' read it, but I would have performed one hundred years of servitude to get out of reading the book....could NOT get into it at all...
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It’s ok. Let me think about it more. Lots happened but nothing interesting after the first 1/3.
Feb 21, 2008
Julia
rated it
it was amazing
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Jan 21, 2013
Laura
marked it as to-read
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no-ebook,
audiobook-download
Mar 26, 2017
Lauren
rated it
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