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

[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.