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Thoughts?

>> No.3407918

>>3407893
I remember picking it up in a library, and not wanting to have to remember the inevitable myriad of names in saga books like this one.

Im sure its quality writing. Its in the classics section of every library i frequent

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Creo que es interesante, y a veces pienso que es magnifico que un hombre de Columbia, escribiendo en español puede obtener tal notoriedad.

(mi título favorito: Memoria de mis putas tristes, aunque no me gusta el libro.)

>> No.3407952

It's good.

>> No.3407955

"magical realism" is only the beginning of what's good about the writing, when other people think its the main feature

its great, i highly recommend giving it a read

>> No.3407957

The title sounds interesting

>> No.3407966

Kinda reminded me of my family. Not so much the women but the men.

>> No.3407976
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>>3407893
>Remedios the Beauty
Was it autism?

>> No.3407978

>>3407976

yes

>> No.3407981

>>3407966
is ur family dynastic in ur home country with vagrants and ne'er do wells traveling the world and getting into miscellaneous exploits

or do u mean like they're all fundamentally solitary

tell us a story

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>>3407976
She was the one that ate dirt, right? Disgusting.

>> No.3407987

>>3407981

The men in my direct family (meaning dad and brothers, not really my uncles) are extremely solitary. We know very little about each other. I don't even know how old any of my siblings are besides my youngest brother. I know pretty much nothing about my dad. I don't know where he grew up, if he finished high school, if he played sports, etc.

All I know is he welds for a living.

>> No.3407997

>>3407982
No, the one who walks around naked and generally acts aloof.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hundr_Years_of_Solitude#Fourth_generation
Actually most of males in the family strike me as assburger as well.

>> No.3408013

>>3407987
that's legit bro

i feel for u even tho i can't relate me and my dad are pretty tight but me and my syblings never talk i think that's okay

>> No.3408024

>>3407987
How did this become the norm?
Were you ever chastised or made to feel ashamed as a child for asking personal questions or relating in a way that was to revealing of your internal life?

>> No.3408031

>>3408024

No. We just never seemed to care and our dad never seemed to have any desire to tell us about himself. We all like to keep to ourselves and have all taken on different hobbies and interests (me an my siblings). It just came to be like this.

We don't hate each other or anything. I would bail any of my brothers out of jail if it came to that. We just don't bother to enter into each others lives.

>> No.3408075

>>3407918
I believe there are like 30 characters with the same name in this book? (correct me if I'm wrong OP) 3 or 4 of them being main characters.

I felt like the characters were very intriguing, particularly the early ones, but that, on the whole, the plot kind of dragged on for a long time (100 years is a long time, I guess). I had to kindof plow through to the end as I was losing interest in the seemingly meandering narrative. Good though.