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I recently read One Hundred Years Of Solitude, and it's probably the best book I've read in the last couple of years.
Simply amazing.
Is anyone else a Marquez fan, and if so, can they reccommend any books written in a similar style or any other books of Marques which are similar to 100 years of Solitude?
I've read I think three of his books, but 100 years of loneliness it's the best. I've also read the chronicle of an announced death and love in the time of the plague. I think this is just an aproximate translation, but I love much another south american writer, ernesto sabato, and one of his books, Of heroes and graves. You may like it, even though you could find it a bit more somber. I loved it more than marquez's books.
I've only heard good things about Sabato, and will look him up.
I tried to read Marquez's Noone writes to the Collonel, but the audiobook was being read by a person who sounded as if he were in a deep state of depression, which in my mind, is not how Marquez should be read. I always think that in One Hundred years of Solitude, there's something I'm not catching, little hints that Marquez gives which are not explicit. It's interesting to hunt for them, like putting together a puzzle.
I also just finished Norwegian Wood, a pretty powerful book by Haruki murakami. I did not know what to expect from it, and loved every bit of it. Also just started Kokoro by Hatsume SOseki but I can't get into it as well, the story is developing too slowly for my taste.
Also just downloaded The Unbearable Lightness Of Being by Milon Kundera and will give that a go as well.
hmm, let me see. From Milan kundera I've read The book of laughter an forgetfulness, and another one, Imortality. It's nice, but a bit not my taste I would say.
Haruky Murakami... I have Norwegian wood, but didn't read it yet. I have read south of the fronteer, west of the sun... I think this is the english title, I don't know, because I read the romanian translation, and also looking for the fantastic sheep. Quite interesting, as the writer sees the sheep as a fantastic animal, an animal which here in europe is quite uninteresting, and we see as fantastic or mithological the dragon which, maybe, in the eastert culture is seen as a nice or almost normal animal, or at least benefic. However, besides from this, I didn't like the ending much... I've read the golden temple by Ukio Mishima, and liked it though. I must try something by Riu Murakami... He seems to write about the world of imorality, drugs, or that of the mad artists... I have Extasy which I've scanned myself and one more... Infinit blue, or something. I read 99% text books using jaws at first, and now the newance voices on NVDA.
I just finished the Unbearable Lightness, and it was an extremely enjoyable book, though the ending was very abrupt, at first I thought a part of the book was cut out, but after checking, I realized that was the real ending. Quite abrult, but definitely worth the read.
I'm reading The WOrld According to Garth by John Irving, and it is a very excellent book, and is highly recommended.
After Finishing Garp, I am now disagreeing with myself. Up to a point, it seemed quite interesting, but after a certain sceen involving biting and a poked-out eye, I felt that I needed to finish it as soon as possible and get it over with. I hate that feeling and very rarely get it, but Garp is just one of those books for me.
Does anyone know where I can get a text-based copy of THe Autumn of the Patriarch?
I have a Russian audiobook, but I'd rather read it in English, since lingually, it's definitely closer to Spanish than Russian is.
Thanks,
Matthew
I finally found The Autumn of the patrairch, it's at Openlibrary.org, and can be downloaded as protected DAISY if you create a free account. Also note that it has many spelling errors, since certain letters mean different letter combos, e.g in for example, but they're pretty easy to decode, if you see the word in context. It is an excellent book though, even with the errors and is much recommended