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Cien anos de soledad (Contemporanea) (Spanish Edition)

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I've had this book in my collection for the last 5 years. I tried to pick it up when I was 20 but I'm glad I waited. A couple of nights ago I couldn't sleep and went to my study to pick it up. I haven't slept since.

Cien años de soledad is a literary triumph. It tells us the story of the Buendías, the founders of Macondo, a small village somewhere in South America (my guess being Colombia, of course). García Márquez takes the reader into the lives and deaths and everything in between of this singular family and how their lives, though so magical and tragic at times, relate to yours and mine. The language and diction are just perfect (though I recommend a good Spanish dictionary because some words can be tricky), making you travel to this very remote place and experience ice, magnets, telegraphs, trains and bananas for the very first time.

This is without a doubt, one of the best books you'll ever read. Get a piece of paper, write down the family tree (because it will get confusing) and enjoy the ride.

"...porque las estirpes condenadas a cien años de soledad no tienen una segunda oportunidad sobre la tierra."

no telling where the currently seated president places it.

As for the rest, seems like you folks never read GGM's "other bible": James Joyce's Ulysses

Had problems with delivery which was promptly handled through wonderful communication. Great transaction. Would purchase from seller again.

This is a book everybody should have in his or her collection. I have read it twice, and certainly will read it again. I've never met anyone who didn't like it. I would recommend it to my best friend and my worst enemy. It's funny, exotic and will make you forget everything around you, even your upstairs neighboors noisily remodelling their apartment.

I'm not one to praise or hype above deserved merit. Cien Años De Soledad, which I read in its original language - Spanish, is the best book I've read. While some may find it confusing, it actually gets easier as you read on.

I tend to breeze through books but this book prevented me for doing so. Albeit for a bit of its complexity but more so because you want to enjoy every minute of it. There are many things, which you know are impossible in the real world, but you want to believe and you do believe in the end.

Some may say that it's a slow read and that some parts are even boring, well, yes, some parts are boring but not so much a flaw of the writing but a way for the reader to really get to know each character thoroughly without distraction.

Another point to note, and the best part to me, is the ending. Most books end with the love-couple finally getting together or the killer finally revealed or the main character somehow overcoming their worst fears, not this one, no sir, this is the mother of all endings. The Sixth Sense's ending is crap compared to the ending of Cien Años De Soledad.

I've only space for 1000 words so I narroved my review to 1 word, BRILLIANT