September 10, 2004
That's a whole lotta solitude
3rd book in 11 months: One Hundred Years of Solitude. It's really really good. It was recommended to me by no less than 3 people who had never actually finished it. But they all praised it nontheless, and now I'm recommending it to you. Even if you don't finish the whole book you should give it a look, the style is memserising and the content brilliant.
Posted by b-ruce at September 10, 2004 08:02 PM
One of my favorite books, and I did eventually finish it, although I started recommending it to people before I finished it. Oddly, it is also a part of the unofficially official Chinese canon of western books, by which I mean, if you meet a Chinese person who has read, say, 10 western books (in translation, I mean), you could probably guess what they are and that Hundred Years of Solitude is one of them. I'd say Solitude is about #8 on the list, which starts with Gone With the Wind and Old Man and the Sea.