Only thirty pages into 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' and I'm totally hooked.

[panader0]

I can't believe I've never read this book before now. Marquez's prose is
poetry. The sun is going down, the light receding, I'll read more tonight
by lamp. I'm so impressed by this writer.

[Dream Girl]

1. Wonderful book. Mesmerizing...I need to reread it.

What made you start it?

[panader0]

3. Just hearing about it for so long--What a feast of literature.

[tblue37]

2. I used to teach it in my Intro to Fiction course. It's one of my favorite books. nt

[Quemado]

4. Best book I ever read.

"Love in the Time of Cholera" is also pretty good.

[bif]

8. "Love in the Time of Cholera" is amazing!

Love that book.

[randr]

5. One of my favs

I believe a film is in the works

[Ghost Dog]

6. If you're reading a translation, praise the translator too!

Translating fine poetic prose into fine poetic prose is not easy (and, frequently, not at all well-paid)..

[UTUSN]

9. This.

[ProudLib72]

10. That's one of the reasons I stopped reading it

I know it's a lame excuse, but I always feel like an imposter not reading a book in the original language. The other reason is because I think I'm missing a lot of the historical allusions.

Then again, I should probably put my misgivings aside and just enjoy the thing.

[Ghost Dog]

11. Don't stop! I've read it in both languages and I can assure you the English translation

is accurate and excellent.

Perhaps keep a Latin-American history reference book at your side.

[Phentex]

7. One of my all time favorites...

I read it in school. Then later just to see how I remembered it. And then again when I talked my son and spouse into reading it.