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

[aedifica]

On first glance I misread "some of the people are actually repugnant" as "some of the people are actually pregnant."

I remember liking the book a lot, but I didn't read it to myself--the local-to-where-I-was public radio station had someone who would read aloud daily, picking one book and reading it til it was done. He had a good voice and may have made the book better than it would have been on its own, I don't know. I can't actually remember anything that happened in the book now.