I'm 50 pages in and this is the most boring pile of shit I've ever readWhy did no one warn me?>here's another new character>yes they have the same name as some other character>lol aren't they quirky?>anyone they're gone now they don't matter anymoreAlso why does he seem so fucking horny for little girls?
Yeah, I also felt it was quite overrated.
>>25355627agree. I made two attempts at getting through this, but lost interest around page 80 both times.
>>25355627>>25355680>>25355837Go back to anime and video games.
>>25355627Agreed. I don't know how it's popular. It popularized magic realism, but it's imo one of the worst in the genre.
>>25357738Who would you recommend? I only know of Borges.
>>25355627is this the one with the deaf or the blind village or whatever? that segment was kino, dropped a couple scenes after that though
>>25357747check out The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares. He was a contemporary of Based Borges
Somehow it was on my shelf, probably my mom bought it, and i read the back cover and it seemed really gay so i didn't read it, then i saw it on the lit top 100 so i tried to give it another go and got a few pages in and dropped it again. seemed boring. that's all i have to say
>>25359781moral of the story: don't read books that your mom bought.
>>25355627Why did he shoehorn in his pedo child rape fantasy?
>>25360929She used to read me Robert Frost road less traveled poem and also khalil gibran poems when i was 5 years old. i love my mom
>>25360959One day I returned from school and my mom was crying because she went to my room looking for something and came upon Nicche's "Antichrist" - she thought I was into some Satanic shit when I was just into weed. Good times. (She also told me that if I were ever to do drugs, she'd prefer something like cocaine compared to the evil herb, because the TV showed her cocaine people dancing and herb people looking dead - she has not seen either drug in her life btw). OP is gay anyway, but Cholera is better.
>>25360991>she'd prefer something like cocaine compared to the evil herb, Sounds is a classic mom moment
>>25355627Sometimes it pays off later, but yeah it's kind of a drag especially at the start. In a sense it's supposed to reflect the somewhat transient nature of life blahblahblah. I know you don't care. El Otoño del Patriarca is better at it, imo. It's a non-linear book so a few things do loop back around, but I don't think you will like it.If you want try another author you could try Rulfo for something Faulkner-like , or Vargas Llosa for something more conventional, or Ibargüengoitia if you like short stories.>>25360949>FantasyNot only did he fulfill it himself, it's also unfortunately something that happens in Macondos everywhere.
>>25355627If you're not into it you might as well drop it. There is no line where stuff suddenly starts happening or whatnot.>yes they have the same name as some other character>anyone they're gone now they don't matter anymoreIt's musings on LatAm history, with characters and their lives representing the essence of what happened to Colombia as an entity, though Marquez did try to give it some more whimsy. You either enjoy it by sharing Marquez' sentiment of tragicomedy of it all or it will bore you. >Also why does he seem so fucking horny for little girls?It's not just him it's beaners as a whole. How tf would one ever convey the core of what it means to be Colombian without mentioning pedophilia? It's would be akin to an attempt to portray the quintessential French character that leaves out the homosex.
