PENGUIN One Hundred Years of Solitude

I would like to request everyone who purchased anything just give a review because including me everyone buy something after reading reviews. Let's talk about book so the book is, I would say interesting, confusing, but hard to understand at once, actually if one understand the Buendia family tree you get the store & also the rise and fall of Macondo.

I don't have a lot to say except I felt like I was a member of the Buendia family myself by the time I finished reading this. Genuinely difficult to put down.

Es un regalo para mi hija que ya tiene esta obra en español, cómo en una entrevista Gabriel García Márquez dijo que había quedado muy satisfecho con la versión en inglés, pues me parece excelente obsequio para una lectora bilingüe.

Fun to read. A lot of characters but there’s a chart to keep up. I’m a huge Marquez fan and this is one of his best works. The book overall gave me a sense of solitude after I was done. Netflix is releasing a series soon based on the book. Not sure how I feel about it because the writing style and plot of the story is complex. I recommend reading up on Colombian history during the 60s and 70s because he does touch on that in the book. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is into fiction.

This book was amazing!! Highly recommend everyone to read it.

This is such a wonderful book. The range and breadth of situations, challenges, life problems, joy and most profound heartache that run through the story of one family over 100 years is captivating and fascinating. In that regard the story telling and imagination is incredible. Where I personally struggled with it, was in the fact that so many characters had the same name, at the same time. I know many families around the world do that, but reading quite complex family, romantic and political situations when so many people share the same name, just bewildered me and slowed the pace down. Plus, very often the story telling drifted into the fantastical and supernatural - perhaps that was a reflection of the intended time and age (deep religious and supernatural beliefs) but for me, the "magical" situations diluted the serious drama of the core story. So, I really enjoyed this epic tale, but it was not the most easy of reads.