Chasing Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[nagmalitongyawa]

Has anyone here read works by Gabriel Garcia Marquez? I am itching to discuss "One Hundred Years of Solitude" with someone... :idea:

[Idril]

I've read 3 of his books, including One Hundred Years of Solitude. We read that book for the forum book club. Here's (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18943) the link, you can see what other people have had to say about the it.

[Moira]

I've read One Hundred Years of Solitude and loved it. Pretty confusing characters but the fictional town and absurd/ magical happenings, symbols ...... beautiful.
Also, i've read Memories of My Melancholy Whores, a novella which did not impress me much.

[manolia]

I've read "one hundred years of solitude" too. Very nice but i had to take pen and paper..with all these names.

[nagmalitongyawa]

it took me nearly 3 months to finish this book (amid all my daily activities) and unexpectedly it has seeped into my system. the way it ended caught me off guard, although i was somehow expecting it. real time & fiction time smoothly merged into a literary work! but it was explained by the author himself that the storytelling style is exactly the same method gabo marquez's grandma would usually employ when narrating stories. as if fantasy/magic is the same as reality. interchangeable even. i guess this is the style of some latin americans (not only of writers, but also of ordinary folks).

[Nossa]

I read One Hundered Years of Solitude..and started reading Love In The Time Of Cholera...but couldn't finish it..YET!! lol
I was a little confused by the names and some of the events that took place at the begining of One Hundred Years of Solitude...I actually had to re-read some parts to get the idea..lol
But it's a GREAT book regardless...and it's def. worth reading!

[B-Mental]

I've read Love in the time of Cholera, and loved it. A little less enthusiastic about 100 years though, too many insanities.

[chasestalling]

borges has a story, circular ruins i think it was, where the protagonist, who is on the verge of death, realizes that he's a figment of someone else's imagination. i wouldn't be surprised if garcia marquez, who has cited borges as an influence, had conceived of melquiades and the parchments as a sort of tribute to borges.

[malwethien]

count me in with those who have read 100 Years of Solitude and loved it :) I've also read Love in Time of Cholera and Love and Other Demons (?) and his autobiorgraphy, Living to Tell the Tale, which is fantastic!! A must read! I didn't like ..Cholera.. that much though

[Demona]

i've read 100 years alone a month ago or so...and just fell in love with it :D The way he narrates the story and the plot itself is simply fantastic. Following the family tree is a challenge, though :)

[B-Mental]

I thought the part about all of the illegitimate sons was actually quite funny. I just felt for the women that would be duped by such a "hero"

[drunkenKOALA]

I read One Hundred Year's Of Solitude and I had to wade through it, because my Spanish isn't good enough, and that was what I read it in. I really liked A Chronicle of a Death Foretold though.

[littlewing53]

i've read solitude and cholera a few times over the years...really enjoyed the color of his tales...and his writing is hilarious as well as sometimes mystical...

[Idril]

I've read 100 Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera and Autumn of the Patriarch and I enjoyed them all on some level. Patriarch was a little hard to get through simply because of it's form, no paragraphs, sentences that could be up to 10 pages long and the constant switch in narrators and perspective but the characters and story were absolutely fascinating. Again, it was heavy on the surreal which is one of the things I've come to really like about Marquez.

[Scheherazade]

Both Cholera and Solitude have excellent openings; the kind one would never forget.

[SeleneMB]

I have read just about everything he has written One hundred years of solitude is one of my favorite books. I just finished re reading it and found that 20 years between readings changes the book completely, I as I am different.

[l'invers]

the books are better in spanish, or at least one hundred years of solitude and love in the time of cholera are.
the translations are excellent, but they still make less sense somehow.
or that could just be me...

[nagmalitongyawa]

the story tells about a cycle... do you think it would have ended differently? i mean, if aureliano and amaranta ursula were not too wrapped up with each other and tried to revive macondo from deterioration, let's say, would it make any difference at all? or does gabo marquez just intend to imply the inevitability of cycles..?

[chasestalling]

i don't feel like showing off