One Hundred Years of Solitude

[lydy]

I've read about half. I don't like it and I'm not going to continue. The words are very nice, and the magic realism doesn't bother me, but I don't like the people in the book at all. I don't like the distance everything seems to be at. Some of the people are actually repugnant.

Have you read it and liked it? Why? Have you read it and disliked it? Why?

Comments

[lydy.livejournal.com]

"Journeys of the Hero?" What hero? Where? Colonel Arelianos Buenidos (or whatever his name is) is not a hero. He's a butcher in revolutionary clothing. None of the rest of them come even close. They whore around and steal money from their mother, and try to marry prepubescent children, or want to sleep with their aunt who raised them from a baby. Blech. I thought I was free love, but _One Hundred Years of Solitude_ made me realize that I have a lot of standards for "free love." Step brother marrying step sister. I dunno. I shouldn't be so shocked, but it just seems wrong. Am I becoming too staid in my old age?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Also they didn't go anywhere. There were no heroes, and they mostly stayed put.

I felt completely cheated in that class. Even the things I liked were just vastly unsuited for the stated topic. I suppose if he'd titled it "Books This Professor Wants To Ramble About" very few people would have taken the course.

(Not that no professor could design a course like that I would have taken in a heartbeat. But not this one.)

I don't think you're being too staid, no.