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Title: The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ISBN: 0-06-093267-8 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (25 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Community of Voice
Comment: How else do you narrate a dictatorship? Nice and pat and all publisher-friendly? So that 'reader response' will vote in your favor?
These may be some helpful questions to briefly ponder when you've reached the point where you're scratching your chin.
After a while, maybe a little like A Clockwork Orange, the delivery begins to make sense... afterall, why do we have to obey the grammatical and lexical conventions picked up since pre-toddlers? Marquez' grammar is perfectly clear. Period stops are for easy thoughts-- like mine, stopping here.
Rating: 5
Summary: I donot intend to die again, Goddammit, let other people die
Comment: This is perhaps the most difficult book I have ever read in my life. Could be the hardest I will ever read. It is a discriptive Stream of Consciousness novel. What does that mean? Stream of Consciousness means that it is written as a man experiences things. It can be erratic and all over the place, like our minds. And sentences will and do go on for pages upon pages. One of the hardest things to get into. But if you do it, the rewards are great.
This book is about a cruel dictator of a small Carribean island. He is at the end of his life and is trapped in his own personal coutry ruled over by a cruel dictator. He is in his own personal hell. It is a very intense story, some of the things he does and has done can utterly disgust you, but you know that there is a small chance this man could find redemption. And on and on through the story, you begin to feel sorry for this cruel, horrible man.
The description of this novel is great. I would reccomend this book only after you have read perhaps more than two of his books (unlike me) and perhaps other "difficult" books. The book is only a little over 200 pages, but could take longer than reading The Odyssesy.
All in all, another masterpiece by Mr. Garcia. I think he should get special recognition for this work. Both the story and the style are perfected. Good job!
Rating: 2
Summary: Simply couldn't finish it...
Comment: I am one of GGM's big fans. However, for some reason I found this book extemely difficult to read. Too much magical realism, if you ask me. I gave it quite a few shots and failed miserably.
I recommend that before you bite into this one, you read some other books of his.
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Title: Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith Grossman ISBN: 0140256369 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ISBN: 0140119906 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: In Evil Hour by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ISBN: 0060919647 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 20 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ISBN: 0345310020 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 February, 1984 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ISBN: 0060929790 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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