LeSamourai
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One Hundred Years of Solitude is my favorite book of all time. You know how some people say The Giver or The Alchemist is the book that had a profound, lifelong impact on them? Yeah, One Hundred Years is mine. I'll never forget the first time I read it.
I loved this too. I read Love in the Time of Cholera in my twenties and thought it one of the best things ever (I still do), and it took me another 20 years getting around to One Hundred Years but wow, it's such a great book. For a writer to have one work that special is something but to have two that are this good, well, one could only dream of being that skilled.
My master's is in Latin American lit, and once I presented at an academic conference a paper looking at the many similarities between One Hundred Years of Solitude and the show Arrested Development. Normally you're lucky to have a handful of people in the audience at those conferences, but this was one time that I presented to a packed room.
As for García Márquez, I'm also a bit partial to The Autumn of the Patriarch (which is bit of a more difficult read) and Chronicle of a Death Foretold (a bit easier).
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