One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
read: circa 1997
Guardian 1000 Novels
This was one of the assigned books before senior year of high school, world literature. One of the quotes on the back of the book was "the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race." I read the novel and liked it, but that praise seemed overblown to me, and my senior year English teacher told me once he felt the same way. Still, I always felt like I was missing something.
I'm not sure you could argue the book of genesis should be required reading either. I mean, it's a classic, but a must read for the whole human race?
ReplyDeleteP.S. RIP Mr Marquez
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