One Hundred Years of Solitude
I bought this book a long long long time ago. I have a strange greediness when it comes to books, so I try to buy as many books possible whether or not I can read them all. One of the books that were selected was One Hundred Years of Solitude. I did not know what the book was about. I just chose the book because the cover was bedazzling (yes, I do judge the book by its cover…sometimes…) and because i knew that it was famous. However, perhaps because it was too famous, or because the title was just too duanting, i never picked it up. For some reason this made me really guilty. I felt like i was committing a crime of making a legendary book just idly stand on the shelf, so when i had to read a book for ap lit i almost immediately thought of this book. Honeslty, even though this book was my first choice i tried to avoid it because it seemed to be too thick, and i knew that i migt not have enough time to read it, but still i came to a decision to read the book. I can really say that i do not regret my decision. Yes, it was a pretty bulky (not too much) book but it was worth it. Peopel say that this book made people view literature differently. Since i am a baby lit student, i do not exaclty know what my views are towards literature, but it indeed is a magnificent book.
This book was completely different from what i expected it to be. I expected this book to be very philosophical (i am not saying that this book is not!) and …just one of those wonderful but boring books, but it really wasn’t like that. In stead, it was a very eventful (maybe too much) book that really captivated my mind. Although it got kind of boring in towards the end, the book thoroughly entertained me. I think i read quite a lot, but i don’t think that i am a good…deep reader, so i must have failed to grasp the whole value of this book. Yet, this book made me speechless. As a i told ms. porter almost the only thing that i could think of that Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a GENIOUS. Really, nobel prize winners are different… FIrst of all, who can think of a imagernary place that is so ordinary and original at the same time? The writing is so imaginative and the writing is so juicy (and i applaud the translator for the beautiful work as well!) Moreover, the story is so complicated, and the author just must be a genious to keep track of al the names, not be confused, and have their individual stories. Whiel i was reading the book i thought that the story got a bit too chaotic. There were too many characters with similar or IDENTICAL names, but then i realized the order in the chaos. The author actually planned out the story, which can be hinted from lines like “as you will see later”
However, more than anything, i loved the ending. I really wondered how the book will end because everything was turning out just so miserably. Usually, i peek and see the ending of the books because i am really bad at supressing my curiousity, but this time i succesfully restraiend myself because i knew that soemthing beautiful would happen. Since i do not want to spoil the ending i will not say it outright but the ending was perfect!!!!!!!! it gave me goosebumps. Also, i felt the evident political satire. I forgot much of my history, but i could sense the twists.
Gosh, my wriitng is like… stream of conciousness…well
now i am going to start Love in the Time of Cholera and i can’t wait for it!!
