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Totally new to this board. What do you do you guys think of this book?

>> No.6911426

>>6911425
Well fucking hell, my typing error has already damned me as an illiterate troglodyte. Damn

>> No.6911430

>>6911425
Never read it. Read a few of his other works. Don't like them. I notice with a lot of those writers of the so-called Latin American Boom, they write a paragraph describing a fucking sunset or the smell of the sea and then one sentence about how the character feels. I can't stand description. It's fucking useless.

>> No.6911432

>>6911425

Masterpiece of the last century, it deserves all the hype it gets.

Joder Los que odian

>> No.6911439

>>6911430
I'm a huge fan of highly descriptive writing (Balzac, Proust, etc), so that's not a point of detriment for me. But then again, it's all up to the reader; literature is highly subjective, and just because I enjoy something doesn't mean you have to.

>>6911432
What do you think of Love In The Time of Cholera? I also adore that book.

>> No.6911498

If you are not a latin american, you will not get. Fuck, is a great book, a cought myself thinking how the story is soo familiar to me. Fucking america latina,

>> No.6911509

>>6911425
>reading transaltions

>> No.6911518

>>6911439

Great book, the both of them are usually used to justify Marquez's fame. The rest of his works I do not care much for, but I'll always remember the first time I read one hundred years. The feeling of total alienation in the first part due to the purely objective-descriptive style, not caring for any character apart from the colonel. Then the horror when realizing the same detachment is used to describe the doom of the later generations due to the errors of the founders.

>> No.6911520

>>6911509
>not knowing Spanish

>> No.6911522

>>6911439

PS if you haven't read Vargas Llosa's books, you might like what he does

>> No.6911525

>>6911518
It's very similar to Nausea, but even more emotionally potent

>>6911522
Duly noted

>> No.6911529

>>6911509
>>6911520
>Knowing Spanish, reading translation anyway
because that's the cheapest copy I found.

>> No.6911530

>>6911520
dejese venir puto

>> No.6911556

I haven't read much from Marquez, all I have read is "El coronel no tiene quien le escriba", "Cronicas de una muerte anunciada" and "Memorias de mis putas tristes". I absolutely loved the last one, such a great book.

>> No.6911561

>>6911425
It's like ripping off your own dick and then anally fucking yourself with it until you bleed to death or sepsis sets in.

>> No.6912552

>>6911425
what i've seen is that people either absolutely love this book, or absolutely hate it.

>> No.6912693

>>6911425
Great I liked it. You can read it.

>> No.6912694

>>6911522
My sister gave me his lastest book, The discreet hero, and it's also my first by him. So far I kind of like it but it's not excellent.

Did you read it?

>> No.6912704

>>6911425
>Totally new to this board

Welcome. A first point to a newcomer: this is supposed to be an anonymous imageboard. When you use a tripcode like that, it defeats the purpose of the board and makes you look like a narcissistic idiot. Doing it to identify yourself as OP might be fine, but outside of that...

>> No.6912753

>>6912704
This

Unless you're a Literature professor at a well-renowned college, a successful published author, or Virgil's zombie goast, you shouldn't be tripping.

Polite sage.

It's an amazing book that manages to nail the reader to the absolute complexity of what happens over multiple generations of a family

>> No.6912771

Women seem to really like this book. I know four or five that say this is their favorite book.

>> No.6912817

>>6912753
>Virgil's zombie ghost
I wish.

>> No.6912830

>>6911556
Of love and other demons.
Try it.

>> No.6912838

>>6912693
Read the thread. He has.

>> No.6912843

>>6912830
idk why that book is so underrated.
I think it is great.

>> No.6912852

>>6912838
He/She*.
When will you learn /lit/

>> No.6912859

>>6912843
Yes it really is. The characters in that one are so memorable. The girl, the monk, the Voltarian apostate/necromancer.

>> No.6912863 [DELETED] 

>>6911425
filtered

>> No.6912865

>>6911556
>"Memorias de mis putas tristes"
Memories of my sad pussies?

>> No.6912867

Borges was a better writer.

>> No.6912884

>>6912867
Coolio

>> No.6912952

>>6912704
>>6912753
Whoops, forgot to disable my trip. Thanks for reminding me guys.

>> No.6912953

>>6912865
Memories of my sad whores.