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Thanks Wabbit, Marquez is now on my to buy list. I've never heard the name before, but that's nothing new for me :) . What are the 2 books about?

tugger, I so agree with eveything you said about Peace. Swede was a character that was impossible not to love. All in all people, due yourself a favor and read this book. It's not a mental excercise and it flows quickly.

I've read that his latest will have something to due with baseball, one of his passions. I was dissapointed to hear that but I'll check it out all the same.

RaVeN
 
You didn't see Fight Club?! Well, you're only missing out on the second best film ever!

Haven't read the book, though, but judging by the film and the books by Palahniuk I have read, it's bound to be fantastic!

Cheers, Martin :D
 
RaVeN said:
Thanks Wabbit, Marquez is now on my to buy list. I've never heard the name before, but that's nothing new for me :) . What are the 2 books about?

tugger, I so agree with eveything you said about Peace. Swede was a character that was impossible not to love. All in all people, due yourself a favor and read this book. It's not a mental excercise and it flows quickly.

I've read that his latest will have something to due with baseball, one of his passions. I was dissapointed to hear that but I'll check it out all the same.

RaVeN
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100 years in solitude: It's about a Buendia family that found this town in South America called Macondo. It follows the 100 years in the fortunes of the Bunedia family. It's a work in the magic realism genre. All kinds of strange things happen. The streets run with blood. There is a plauge of insomnia. A seemingly immortal and wise gypsy. A guy that has butterflies following his footsteps. The book is so intense, emotional, clever, complex, tragic and last but not least it's very beautiful. Marquez writes so damn well. His prose is poetry in motion. The book is pretty dark. Don't read it if you are depressed. A friend of mine brought me 100 years as a present and she said you gotta read this. I did and loved it so much. It's not the most easy book to read. Sometimes I found it a little heavy going. Sometimes, reading it, I found it a little hard going. If you do, stick with it. It's a strange thing that I have not encounted with a novel. Only after you FINISH the book will it really hit you. As the last page falls you feel the rush of 100 years and countless lives you have lived with hit you heart and then... wow :) Can you tell I liked it??? lol

Of Love and other demons: I actually found this one to be even more poetic and beautiful than 100 years. Maybe you should actually read this one first as it's an easier read and it's short. This could serve as a good introduction to Marquez and if you like you could go onto 100 years. It's very poetic and beautiful. I constantly found myself re-reading many parts of it just for the pleasure of drinking the beautiful words that I found. The book is about a girl called Maria de todo los angeles ( Maria of all the angels ). She lives in this crumbling house in a hot south american town. Her mother and father are strange and apart from her. She grows up with the black servents of the house and learns their ways and language. She is very beautiful, the most beautiful in the whole town. One day she gets bitten by a rabid dog. She lives but they come to believe that she is possesd by demons. They send her to a nunnery and lock her away. There is a lot of other stuff but I won't tell you because it would spoil the book. Anyway, I thought it was really wonderful work.

All of his books are beautiful, complex and very very dark lol If you are in any way depressed then don't read them lol But they are very very wonderful! :)

Regards
SillyWabbit
 
Wabbit,
You beat me to the punch. I was all set to jump in and tell Raven about 100 Years. Lucky for him you did. As I've said in another post somewhere the insomnia plague, followed by the amnesia plague, is one of best things I have ever read. It is also the source of one of my favorite quotes "Cease, cows, life is short!"
 
Ah yeah, that is a great line! lol :)

Have you read any of his other works? I won't stop till I have them all :) On my books shelf right now I have love in the time of cholera. Can't wait to read that book :)

Anyway, please do ramble about 100 years for Raven! You can't say enough about how great Marquez's works are :)

Regards
SillyWabbit
 
I like The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship by Marquez. It's one of his short stories from Innocent Erendira. It's 10 pages long; it's one sentence long.

I must have been about 13 when I discovered Marquez...by accident. I had stayed up late - on a schoolnight - and watched a film called Erendira, based on the title story of the aforementioned book. The film was not much more than a tantalising blend of magic realism and soft porn. Not bad then.

I've also seen that there's a play based on the story, too.
 
Thanks Wabbit, funes & Mile-O! I'll definitely check into Marquez now.

I've been putting together a list for a trip to one of the used bookstores in town that I haven't been to in a few years. It's a great shop & I want to go with a few hundred $ in my pocket so I can go hognuts (so to speak) The problem is, it's in one of the shabier sections of town & I hate to leave my car out there for the pickings.

Sorry for the rambling. You know how I hate to go off topic. :D

RaVeN
 
Marquez's short shories are incredible. There's a good collection out that you should check into, as well.
 
Jeez, you guys even convinced me. I've held 100 years in my hands once, but, to be honest, it didn't appeal to me as much (the blurb, that is), but your description worked its magic, Wabbit! Marquez it is! I'm definitely going to be looking for him!

Ashlea, what collection of shorts are you refering to?

Cheers, Martin :D
 
The only author I've been obsessive about is Ed McBain's 87th Precinct novels, especially since I bought "Candyland" by Evan Hunter/Ed Mcbain and it was a hybrid copy - very unique as it has a major publishing error ... :D

I've since spoken to Evan Hunter (aka Ed McBain) and he's told me to hang on to it ... :D Nice chap too!
 
Okay you two, get a room.

And Martin, I'm telling your fiance.

RaVeN
(be careful Nicola. he has a thing for Phil's ass and he drips) :D
 
First of all, I don't have a fiancee.

Secondly, I drip!?

Thirdly, I ... Nicola, wanna get a room?

Cheers, Martin :D
 
First of all, I'm sure your girlfriend will be slightly relieved to hear that

Secondly, ...puddles

Thirdly, how clever of you to side-step Phil's ass and your infatuation with animal husbandry. :D

RaVeN
 
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