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Anonymous Sun Sep 27 12:58:33 2015 No.7166023 [Reply] [Original]

what did you think about 100 years of solitude?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 13:08:21 2015 No.7166073 >>7166023 It was great. It was like the book of Genesis in forwards and reverse.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 13:15:46 2015 No.7166105 good

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 16:31:51 2015 No.7166827 I probably didn't understand shit but the feeling reading this book gives is like nothing else. Everything seems so large and meaningful.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 22:40:53 2015 No.7168432 everyone is josé, everyone else is aureliano.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 22:46:47 2015 No.7168440 >>7166023 pretty great. I should probably re-read it, actually.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 22:52:58 2015 No.7168453 I really enjoy magical realism and thought this was some top tier shit when i first read it but after giving it some thought i realized that the author was just a pervert disguised as someone with talent

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 22:55:32 2015 No.7168458 its really fucking bad

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 23:03:12 2015 No.7168486 >>7166023 it's possibly the best book ever written

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 23:22:30 2015 No.7168563 It's a masterpiece. The war and the final are my favorite parts, I really enjoy the scene that Aureliano tries to commit suicide and fails. Also, what the saint with the money meant?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 23:51:09 2015 No.7168679 >>7166023 atrocious, unrealistic, contrived, lacking in subtlety, awkward

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 23:56:45 2015 No.7168705 >>7168563 saint with the money??

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 23:57:52 2015 No.7168709 Good book with few ideas

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 00:01:00 2015 No.7168725 >>7168679 >atrocious, unrealistic, contrived, lacking in subtlety, awkward lmao. dumb gringos cant even dance. how can they ever understand latin america and its culture?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 00:05:29 2015 No.7168749 really liked the magic realism.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 00:16:53 2015 No.7168798 >>7166023 The suffering of the characters was immense and for me viscerally unpleasant. Love in the time of Cholera is the same way. He tortures his characters throughout their whole lives. I did like the revelations of the last few chapters though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 01:45:43 2015 No.7169067 can anyone recommend a decent translation?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 02:54:56 2015 No.7169200 >>7169067 the Rabassa one is the only English one I'm aware of. others might exist but the Rabassa one won a lot of awards and Marquez (maybe facetiously) claimed it was better than the Spanish original so nobody ever reads any others

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 03:58:15 2015 No.7169279 Who shot Jose Acardio?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 04:16:25 2015 No.7169309 imagine borges but remove all talent and insert the perverted machinations of a hack gone wild. arabs & mexicans dig the fuck out of him, that should tell you all you need to know.

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 08:40:06 2015 No.7169773

Regarding his own literary constraints when writing novels, McCarthy said he's "not a fan of some of the Latin American writers, magical realism. You know, it's hard enough to get people to believe what you're telling them without making it impossible. It has to be vaguely plausible."

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 10:10:03 2015 No.7169944 >>7166023 One of my favorite pieces of literature ever. Cant wait to reread it in a few years.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 10:36:35 2015 No.7170000 >>7169773 that is such bullshit. one can enjoy, understand, and get immersed into both styles. Mcarthy beter shut the fuck up and release that new novel soon.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 10:51:12 2015 No.7170030 >>7169944 This very much. I'd like to reread it now but I want to give it some time.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 12:16:57 2015 No.7170264 Magical Realism is basically the Family Guy of literature. It's just one skit or meme after another.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 12:28:21 2015 No.7170307 File: 41 KB, 526x440, Hepburn12_152.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7170264 >basically the Family Guy of literature. It's just one skit or meme after another.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 12:30:17 2015 No.7170317 >>7168705 not him but i remember there was a statue of a saint filled with gold coins or something among the likes of that that went missing or something

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 12:41:55 2015 No.7170348 >>7170264 are you missing part of your brain?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 12:42:01 2015 No.7170349 If you enjoyed the novel, check out Big Mama's Funeral

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 17:53:41 2015 No.7171477 >>7170000 quads for trufax McCarthy confirmed for mad.

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 18:21:13 2015 No.7171616

The ending sentence was pretty great and the book was good.

Also this reminded me to add it to the books I have read in the last few months.

count of monte cristo
norwegian wood
roadside picnic
darkness at noon
100 years of solitude
musashi

Finished musashi minutes ago. Trying to decide what to read next...

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 18:34:46 2015 No.7171675

>>7169773
In a way Blood Meridian is magical realism too. Besides, I don't believe that magic in Solitude is really suppose to be happening. I interrupted it as more unreliable narrator. The magical happening is more false recollections, local legends, etc. From the first sentence the story is set up as an adult remembering a childhood event, and the last few chapters introduce that the author has second or third hand knowledge of events, being a citizen of Macondo himself. Everything could have happened, or have been some embellishment or exaggerations.

The most magical thing that happens is Remedios the Beauty ascending to heaven. Right after that happens its said that was the story they told the townspeople, and that it was just accepted. That should mean that her being lifted to heaven is just a story that family told, covering up something that really happened.

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 18:55:18 2015 No.7171750

Read it in Spanish and loved it. It's the first Spanish I've read cover-to-cover. I did it to improve my vocabulary and grammar. I'm going to read Don Quixote next.

GOAT characters:
>el Coronel
>Aureliano Babilonia
>Gernieldo Marquez
>Ursula Iguaran
>Melquiades obv

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 18:56:38 2015 No.7171758 >>7169279 They never said. I think it's was staged by the conservative government because Jose Arcadio saved his brother's life. One of the best parts of the book.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 19:22:15 2015 No.7171820 >>7166023 My favorite book

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 20:14:49 2015 No.7171941 >>7171758 Long live the liberal party!

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 21:01:53 2015 No.7172066

CHARACTER TIER LIST

GOD TIER
Melquíades
José Arcadio Buendía
Colonel Aureliano Buendía

GREAT TIER
Úrsula Buendía
Amaranta Buendía
Pietro Crespi
Colonel Gerineldo Márquez
Arcadio
Aureliano Segundo
José Arcadio Segundo
José Arcadio Buendía IV
Aureliano II

GOOD TIER
everybody else

BAD TIER
José Arcadio Buendía
Rebeca Buendía

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 21:04:45 2015 No.7172073 >>7172066 >BAD TIER >José Arcadio Buendía I meant José Arcadio Buendía II (son of José Arcadio Buendía and brother of Colonel Aureliano).

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 22:20:37 2015 No.7172324 >>7172073 What? José Arcadio wasn't basiclly Brock Samson!

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 10:30:14 2015 No.7173909 >>7172066 >no Aureliano III >no Remedios, la bella >no Aureliano Babilonia >no Remedios Moscote

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 11:08:33 2015 No.7174009 >>7172066 >GOD TIER >Melquíades Yes

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 11:12:29 2015 No.7174021 >>7172066 ABSOLUTE TRASH TIER Fernanda

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