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The story of the Buendia family, living in the fictional town of Macondo, is anything but ordinary. Welcome to Latin America, where the surreal becomes custom. The reading can get a bit confusing at some points (why are so many characters named the same), but is incredibly beautiful. The scene with the butterflies is one of my favorite moments in literature ever. The history of Macondo is the history of our countries too, devastated by civil war and foreign occupations, and struggling to adapt t
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I think this got better towards the end. It was a long read. Many characters many generations of the same family. There was a lot to keep track of throughout the story. Some themes and ideas weaved in and out of the story and that was a nice surprise. Great prose. Read out loud it sounds great!
This was the first Garcia Marquez I'd ever read and I swam through it, all engrossed with the story and the characters. Now that I'm older and have studied him more, I have so much more appreciation for him and his sense of magic realism.
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Marquez is a master of language, writing halting descriptions of thoughts, interactions and places. However, I found certain sections of the book were challenging to get through as the movement of the plot was quite slow.
Jul 04, 2008
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marked it as to-read
