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[quote=Anonymous][quote=zumbamama][quote=Anonymous]Re: Confederacy of Dunces... that's one I didn't count, because I just couldn't get into it. What do people like about it? Does it get better after the first few chapters?

Also, I hear a lot of love for Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but have never read any. Can someone tell me what kind of stories they are, and what you love about them?[/quote]

I've read three GG Marquez books, my favorite being One Hundred Years of Solitude. It's like a million little stories about a fictitious South American town, Macondo, rolled into one gigantic tale. He braids the stories of the explorers, founders, natives and the families that populate the town over a century—blending adventure, romance, history and fantasy very poetically. Some find it a bit slow and hard to follow because of how much he elaborates on the many, many members of the Buendia family over several generations, but it's that intricacy that keeps me glued. Love in the Time of Cholera moves a bit slower than Solitude, but is a beautiful, although sad, read about the many faces of love and the "disease" of materialism that takes over a fictional Caribbean town at the turn of the century.[/quote]

I couldn't stand One Hundred Years of Solitude. I read most of it but just couldn't get into it. [/quote]

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