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]

I haven't read any other Latino fiction. I'd love to borrow The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts and give it a try. I'm interested, provisionally, in the other two as well. I am cautious -- I really only read sf and fantasy with occasional outbreaks of non-fiction, but I'm curious about other areas. I've nothing to do this summer, broadening my reading seems like a worthwhile thing to do.

I'm not doing so well on the classics of sf, either. I read The Dying Earth, and hated it. I'm reluctant to try any other Vance.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Pick up Don Emmanuel tomorrow, or I'll send it home with any likely suspects if I don't see you.

Classic SF is, unfortunately, often hate-able. I threw "The Weapons Shops of Isher" across the room, and haven't touched Van Vogt since. Recently, have you come across any new-to-you classics that you adored?

K.