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Destiny Inner circle 1429 Posts |
I'll never forget reading Love in the Time of Cholera for the first time.
RIP |
landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts |
Years ago, in NYC there used to be hip little store called Macondo. Now there's a restaurant by that name:
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MobilityBundle Regular user Las Vegas/Boston 120 Posts |
If you don't count books with equations, source code, chess notation, or magic-related diagrams, there's very little I've read. Even when it came to literature I was assigned to read for school, I would hardly ever do it.
Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude is one of the few exceptions. In fact, it might be the only work of fiction I've read twice. |
landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts |
One of the great first sentences in literary history:
"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." I was listening to a talk Marquez gave where he said that he had no idea where the novel was going when he wrote that sentence. But he sat down and wrote everyday for 18 months. There is a wonderful tribute being done that you can hear being streamed on this Internetty thing, which includes a remembrance by Isabel Allende, on the wonderful Amy Goodman's show, Democracy Now! here: http://www.democracynow.org/
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Destiny Inner circle 1429 Posts |
Strangely, considering how much I liked Cholera, I haven't read 100 Years of Solitude but I will remedy that shortly.
(and that's despite having read that first line dozens of times). |
mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts |
!00 Years of Solitude was one of the most memorable books I've ever read. And it's been nearly forty years since I did. Think I'll read it again.
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TonyB2009 Inner circle 5006 Posts |
I am with Bob (and MobilityBundle). A wonderful book, long overdue a reread.
Mobilitybundle, you need to stay in more. There are so many wonderful books and authors waiting for you.
Check out Tony's new thriller Dead or Alive http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alive-Varrick-Bo......n+carson
http://www.PartyMagic.ie |
Destiny Inner circle 1429 Posts |
You've all convinced me - bought 100 days today - was lucky to get it - seems everyone suddenly wants it but I found a copy - be easier if I was prepared to read digitally but when I expect to really enjoy a book I want a real one.
I did read The Autumn of the Patriarch digitally - the New Yorker has it free online if anyone else is interested. http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1976/09......ntPage=1 |
Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
20+ years for me. Rereading begins this evening.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts |
Here's a more permanent link to the Marquez tribute on Democracy Now. There are options to either watch it or listen to it.
http://www.democracynow.org/shows/2014/4/18?autostart=true
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All proceeds to Open Heart Magic charity. |
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