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Why do struggle to finish this novel? This is the third time I have stalled out more than half way through. I just can't seem to care about this family...tell me: should I tough it out?
Grant Rodriguez-Mouland It is like a hypnotic potion that does not work on everyone. It will draw you in or leave you unchanged. If you are well into it and do not like it, i…moreIt is like a hypnotic potion that does not work on everyone. It will draw you in or leave you unchanged. If you are well into it and do not like it, it will not get much better. One can see that when it was published it spoke of things that had never been spoken in a new way of speaking, it was destined to take off. As a reader of primarily non-fiction I was modestly enchanted by it. I finished it because I wanted to experience it, not because I was drawn into it. (less)
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez
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