100_years_of_solitude Sol opinions? one of my all time favorite books in fact i think ill start a blather_book_club 010730 ... Tank i love this book... i love the way he weaves time and the interchangeable nature of the characters... i prefered this over his book 'love in the time of cholera'. good choice duckers... 010730 ... Aimee what's it about? 010730 ... Sol I have read almost, if not all his books, this by far 'wins' in my opinion love in the time of cholera' is the story of his parents (or grandparents, i cant remember) courting. all the others kind of weave into 100 years, it contains bits of them all. 010731 ... marquez mark is I don't know if I should pray or not. God is raining down on me. As summer approaches my chest tightens. We'll see what happens when the day arrives. We'll see. 040511 ... gja it rained alot 061221 ... epitome of incomprehensibility Oh yay, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I should get around to reading this sometime. I liked his story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings". It reminds me a bit of the beginning of The Satanic Verses, which I'm supposedly doing a project on. 061221 ... saigboiaerjgoaeirjgsdpobjpsatgbj I was amazed that so many people who disdain mysticism in their day-to-day lives were captivated by this book's unapologetic use thereof. 061221 ... Captain Obvious and The Perceptions it may be that subtle but imperceptible difference between DEPIICTIONS of mysticism as entertainment and mysticism as, oh, A DESIGN FOR LIVING 061221 ... saigboiaerjgoaeirjgsdpobjpsatgbj That's just it. For some, it is valid design for living (at least in part), but bad reading material. For others, it is great reading material but bad design for living. Can it really be that one is wrong and the other right? 061221 what's it to you? who go blather from