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?

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[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

It so happens ((I'm not sure why I've been using that phrase so much lately)) that I read it just a few months ago. I did force myself to finish it, but I Don't Get It. I never did see the point, and the fluidity of the chronology was mildly annoying rather then evocative or significant or anything.
It's reassuring that other people have similar reactions.
(Moshe, "There aren't two cultures, there are only half-cultured people.")