One Hundred Years Of Solitude

Revised 28 March 2012Huh? Oh. Oh, man. Wow.I just had the weirdest dream.There was this little town, right? And everybody had, like, the same two names. And there was this guy who lived under a tree and a lady who ate dirt and some other guy who just made little gold fishes all the time. And som...

i remember the day i stopped watching cartoons: in my living room after school fully absorbed in an episode of thundercats in which a few of the cats were trapped in some kind of superbubble thing -- and it hit me that, being cartoons, the characters could just be erased and re-drawn outside the...

So I know that I'm supposed to like this book because it is a classic and by the same author who wrote Love in the Time of Cholera. Unfortunately, I just think it is unbelievably boring with a jagged plot that seems interminable. Sure, the language is interesting and the first line is the stuff o...

Imagine you work the night shift stocking shelves in a grocery store with seven other misfit insomniacs. Itâ??s a new job in a new town. You are still fairly young; a bit green and romantic (if you were ever those things), though you like to believe youâ??re not. The store opens at 6. A dark summerâ??s...

More like A Hundred Years of Torture. I read this partly in a misguided attempt to expand my literary horizons and partly because my uncle was a big fan of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Then again, he also used to re-read Ulysses for fun, which just goes to show that you should never take book advice f...