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Almost finished this bad boy.

What did you think of it? Did you like it? I'm liking it so far.
What was your favorite part? Character?

>> No.6397752

Cant remember a thing in it but i read it and liked it and that's the first time i can post this on /lit/

YEAH

>> No.6397754

>>6397735
It's a really great book. Currently ordering a copy of Love In The Time Of The Cholera.

>> No.6397766

>>6397735
Great book, love the characters, especially in the first half of the book. The foreshadowing and inevitability of the events that happen, and their repeating nature was engaging.

Also the whole magical realism was well executed, hadn't read anything quite like it before.

>> No.6397773

>>6397735
Still don't know which Arcadio was which. IMO this book is horribly overrated. It's about litarally nothing.

>> No.6397791

One of the best
I liked it a lot
The very beginning and the very end
Remedios

>> No.6397835

>tfw there's an actual character named "Meme"

>> No.6397851

>>6397735
OP here. Just finished it.
I liked the magical realism and the peculiar atmosphere of the book. Also the cyclical repetition of the events and the ending were very cool.

>> No.6397860

>>6397773
They all had different names, stop asking your care worker to type things for you, you spaz.

>> No.6397865

>>6397773
>litarally
>books are only about what actually happens

This sentiment and your spelling don't quite match.

>> No.6397884

>>6397865
Not him but what do you think was the whole meaning of the book? What was Marquez trying to communicate/show?

>> No.6397888

>>6397735
I think it's fucking terrible, just meandering and pointless with nothing much to say or no coherent story arc.

I lost patience with it, the constant introduction of new characters who were inconsequential and dsicarded as soon as they were invented just made my head spin.

>> No.6397890

>>6397884
Not the one you're replying to but the book is an allegory for the history of Colombia

>> No.6397893

>>6397865
What I came away with was that the punishment was to be cast away into a fictional world and watch the family they built be destroyed, and the world itself collapse as the final nail - the futility of the suffering and strife.

But in many ways I think he's talking about the relative nature of truth and family history in rural society. Magical or not, they were so isolated it was largely irrelevant. Family was whatever it was decided, things that were forgotten no longer existed.

But I haven't read it in 18 months, so feel free to say I'm full of shit.

>> No.6397902

>>6397884
it's basically Colombia during their civil war

>> No.6397927

>>6397735
A cool interpretation: since Marquez attaches supernatural powers to the acts of writing, interpreting a text and reading it (as seen various times in the book), Macondo and its events only happened because YOU read it, just like the destruction of Macondo only happened because Aureliano read the parchments that narrated it (and you read that he read it).

>> No.6397935

It could have used a fewer characters.

>> No.6397942

>>6397884
>worrying about meaning
>books need an overraching meaning to be valuable
>authorial intentional fallacy

turbopleb

>> No.6398359

>>6397927
That is a very Borgesian interpretation. I like it.

>> No.6398367

>>6397735
Love this book. It is basically the book that got me into reading stuff other than science fiction. And having it on my bookshelf got me laid once.

>> No.6398471

>>6397735
loved it. felt biblical in some ways. need to read it again though as I haven't read it in ten years.

>> No.6398822

>>6397890
>>6397902
Its not about Columbia, it's about a 100 years if lonely family, where no one was the person he would like to be. Ezpcept this nudist girl

>> No.6398920

>>6398822
It is clearly an allegorical take on the history of Latin America. It's all there: Colonialism when crossing an impentrable jungle to found the village, the trading with the outside (gypsies, arabs), the railway and modernity (cinema gramophone, etc) which brings the loss of magic, the neverending civil war between liberals and conservatives that bleeds the village (and the country), the american imperialism of the banana plantation and the repression of workers (based on a real event)... and many more that I am probably leaving out. Of course the book also delves into other themes but that's the underlying story

>> No.6399143

>>6398367
>having it on my bookshelf got me laid once
I'm assuming /lit/erate boipussy.

>> No.6399153

>>6398920
Also, women are cunts.
>Rebeca cheating on her fiancee with the first muscular hung-like-a-horse Chad she sees.
>Amaranta almost killing her sister to steal her bf and then, when he finally falls for her, rejecting him just for shits and giggles until he kills himself.
>All those guys that died because Remedios was too hot to bear.
>That other guy that got paralyzed because Fernanda arranged for him to be shot because he was fucking her daughter.
Jesus, what a bunch of cunts.

>> No.6399162

>>6397735
Read it on a recommendation of a qt colombian grill

she browses /lit/

hi sweetie

>> No.6399454

>>6397735
I liked it a lot, truly. Best part for me is the first Macondo generation, the very start, around the insomnia incident.
My fav character has got to be Aureliano (am I remembering that name correctly?!).

Random fact, García Márquez considered the English translation his favourite language to read the book.

>> No.6399669

Im a descendant of the guy Garcia Marquez based General Buendia on.

haven't read the book myself but its on my list

From what Ive heard about the story though, I can tell you the family curse is still ongoing...

>> No.6399764

I get really annoyed reading his drivel; there isn't really much depth at all. he's the MNightShaya of literature (or vice versa). just the ramblings of a perverted indio with a surprise ending tacked on like the tail to the donkey that wows the masses. mexicans, arabs and bill clinton love him - (morons, pedos and a pervert) that'll tell you all you need to know.

>> No.6399776

Can someone explain Remedios the Beuaty's ascension to heaven?

>> No.6399852

>>6399764

I assume you enjoy The Turner Diaries and all of Evola´s opus, right?

>> No.6399922

>>6399454
how many languages could he speak though?

>> No.6399936

One year ago friday..

>> No.6399950

>>6397884
the cyclical nature of time

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6400374

I liked the part where that one guy married a 9 year old.

>> No.6400391

>>6399454
>Random fact, García Márquez considered the English translation his favourite language to read the book.
I've heard this many times but I remain skeptical. I did, however, read the book in english and I thought the prose was wonderful. It reads like your grandpa is telling you a story.

>> No.6400512

>>6399153
They also, while getting none of this prestige, run this village. If the home is symbolic to the prosperity of the family, then some credit is due with the homecarers.

>> No.6400611

it is great, but it is a pleb baiter

also there is so much happening that is easy to forget about it, but it is cool to talk about it with other people because they will probably remember about some passages that you couldn't and vice versa, so it is like sharing memories

anyways, something I never can recall exactly, what happens to the father? I think he goes crazy (don't remember why) and than their family ties him up to a tree and forget about him?

>> No.6400636

>>6400611
He sees/has visions of Melquiades (I think that's his name, the gypsy) and eventually dies. I can't remember more than that.

>> No.6400739

>>6399776
Dat ass was out of this world.

>> No.6400743

>>6400391
>It reads like your grandpa is telling you a story.
That is EXACTLY what he was going for. He said that he imitated the style of his grandma when she told him ancient folk tales.

>> No.6400749

>>6400512
Fuck them. Hated all of them cunts except Ursula. She alone ran the house and the village for decades, while the other vaginas were busy cheating, fucking with each other and sulking.

>> No.6400756

>>6400611
>>6400636
He also becomes a ghost that regularly interacts with his descendants, at least for a while.