{"id":1271,"date":"2018-10-24T15:00:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T21:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2018-10-13T18:03:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T00:03:43","slug":"book-one-hundred-years-of-solitude-1967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/24\/book-one-hundred-years-of-solitude-1967\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1456165951l\/29245354.jpg\" alt=\"One Hundred Years of Solitude\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/>One Hundred Years of Solitude<br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 1967<br \/>\nAuthor: Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez<br \/>\nLength: 844 minutes \/ 14.07 hours<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll admit: I didn\u2019t really \u201cget\u201d this book. I had seen a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B2zhLYz4pYo\">TED-Ed YouTube video<\/a> that told me how great it was, and I decided to give it a try. While there were parts that were entertaining, most of this book went over my head. I suppose if I understood Columbian history and the culture of Central and South America, I might have had a better grasp of what was going on. As it was, I felt lost most of the time and kind of wonder what makes it so highly-recommended.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps my biggest qualm with this book is how its narrative structure is laid out. There\u2019s practically no dialogue, and it\u2019s basically told in the form of a parable or fairy tale. There are a lot of characters, but their names were so similar that I had trouble keeping track of them all. I get they\u2019re all part of the same family, but having to remember so many individuals and the familial connections to each other was a struggle. I also felt a little lost because there wasn\u2019t a strong narrative thread tying everything together other than the fact that it all took place in the same small town.<\/p>\n<p>This is not to say\u00a0<em>One Hundred Years of Solitude<\/em>\u00a0has no merit, though. Some of the elements of \u201cmagical realism\u201d were interesting and could have been the solid base of their own stories instead of being jammed together in this book. The pacing of this book was also pretty peppy, as it didn\u2019t seem to linger too long with one character, realizing that it had many generations to cover. Even though it\u2019s considered a classic (much like\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/12\/book-ulysses-1922\/\">Ulysses<\/a><\/em>), I\u2019m not sure if I agree, and I am certainly welcome to my opinion as you are welcome to yours.<\/p>\n<p>A much better book for those who are \u201cin the know,\u201d I give\u00a0<em>One Hundred Years of Solitude<\/em>\u00a03.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Hundred Years of Solitude Year: 1967 Author: Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez Length: 844 minutes \/ 14.07 hours I\u2019ll admit: I didn\u2019t really \u201cget\u201d this book. I had seen a TED-Ed YouTube video that told me how great it was, and I decided to give it a try. While there were parts that were entertaining, most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,54],"tags":[393,55,105,1506,572,1508,1507,1505,8,1509],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-0-stars","category-book","tag-393","tag-book","tag-classic","tag-columbia","tag-culture","tag-gabriel-garcia-marquez","tag-magical-realism","tag-one-hundred-years-of-solitude","tag-review","tag-south-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}