Comments on rabidrunner: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Funny- I loved this book! I read it in college so...

2012-01-15T19:21:26.244-07:00

Funny- I loved this book! I read it in college so it's been awhile, but I kept it so I could reread it. It reminds me of Gregory Maguire's books a little bit-did you ever read Wicked? It's that magical realism stuff that is just quirky enough to keep me interested.
I have a new one for you- Mutant Message Down Under.
Read it?

I've never read Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, ...

2012-01-10T21:58:25.034-07:00

I've never read Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, but I like his other stuff.

Hemingway was just soooooo sloooooww.

The language sounds kind of funny in English, so t...

2012-01-10T08:55:05.281-07:00

The language sounds kind of funny in English, so that could be. Of course, since I'm not a native Spanish speaker I might just not realize how funny it sounds in Spanish.

Garcia Marquez has a style that sounds (and probably is) pretty pretentious, so I can understand why you would just stop reading. In fact, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of what he's written. But for some reason, I really like this one book.

Jessica, give your other book a try. It might be ...

2012-01-09T05:17:52.704-07:00

Jessica, give your other book a try. It might be a good one. Hemingway was always too depressing. I just didn't ever get his "vibe." Steinbeck, on the other hand, is depressing but I got his "vibe." Not that Hemingway and Steinbeck are similar, just both depressing is all.

Faceless Ghost, hello and welcome! So, while I was reading it, I thought perhaps the magic might have been lost in the translation. Did you like it better in Spanish? It wasn't that I disliked the book, I just couldn't get "into" it. If you know what I mean.

This is interesting. If 100 Years of Solitude isn&...

2012-01-09T00:29:16.585-07:00

This is interesting. If 100 Years of Solitude isn't my favorite book, it comes close. I've read it twice in English and twice in Spanish, and I'm pretty sure I haven't read it for the last time.

If you didn't like the first 100 pages, you probably won't like the rest through, because it's just more of the same.

I have a book by the same dude sitting on my shelf...

2012-01-08T23:08:12.476-07:00

I have a book by the same dude sitting on my shelf. Ugh. We'll see how it goes with that one.

I feel the same way about Hemingway, by the way. You?

I purchased this book due to a book club or class ...

2012-01-08T22:51:37.961-07:00

I purchased this book due to a book club or class or something. Never read it. Gave it to my brother- in-law as he has more time to read than me lately. I asked him to give it a try and see if it would be worth my precious reading time. He read about the same as you and ended with the same result.