CIEN ANOS DE SOLEDAD (Contemporanea) (Spanish Edition)

I am a follower of Marquez and have read most of his works. This one continues to be my very favorite and I have read it several times in Spanish. I purchased your recent offer as my paperback copy was falling apart. The book can still teach us lessons that fit today's world.

One of the best books written originally in Spanish by Nobel Prize Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I read both the Spanish and the English versions and for purposes of reviewing this item, I have to say the English version is very good. Well worth the reading! Add it to your collection of must read, obviously if you enjoy good literature.

I have read this book 10 times in Spanish and three times in English and evrey time I have enjoyed it a lot, in both languages. I would say this book is a classic in the modern latin american literature.

I read this book for many year and found it simply wonderful!! I have now bought it for a German friend that can speak and read good Spanish. This is a "must" of Latinamerican literature, beautifuly written, splenid story, with a touch of magic mixed with the real world. Gabriel Garcia Marques has been, together with Mario Vargas Llosa and a couple others, for the last twenty or thirty years one of those authors that are constantly writting novels and stories nobody can ignore.

After reading all kinds of reviews about how wonderful this book is, I had to read it. I could not get beyond the first 25 pages. Boring beyond belief. Maybe the story picks up, but I doubt it.

During the 1st few pages it tells the story of this guy who buys a strong magnet from a Gypsy in an attempt to find gold with it. The magnet is so strong that it pulls the nails out of the walls of the houses and the houses collapse. See what I mean.