Hundred Years of Solitude

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1. joseda-hgOct 2024
   - Siddhartha

   - Demian

   - A Brave New World

   - 1984

   - A hundred years of solitude, although, I read it in Spanish and I don't know if it'll be as impactful with less cultural shared context

   I remember being forced to read it in class, and being completely repulsed by it, then, during a black out finding the book and absolutely loving it

   Something as small as suddenly being made aware of how a couple generations ago, people not too far away from me could be marveled at something as mundane to me as ice (Because pre-widespread refrigeration someone born in a dessert could just never see ice in their entire life) really got to me, and then the book itself happened

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2. arararJul 2022
   Don Quixote de la Mancha - M. de Cervantes Saavedra

   A hundred years of Solitude - G. G. Márquez

   Foucault's Pendulum - U. Eco

   Cryptonomicon - N. Stephenson

   The Dispossessed - U. K. Le Guin

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3. wryoakSep 2020
   Dude go to half priced books or your local secondhand bookstore and just clean house. Classics in particular are a dime a dozen. Here's a list of "classics" to give you some ideas:

   * A Hundred Years of Solitude

   * Crime and Punishment

   * East of Eden

   * Moby Dick

   * Shakespeare's collected works

   * Bible, Koran, etc - keep as many sacred tomes as you can

   * Plato's Republic, maybe some other philosophy classics like Thus Spoke Zarathustra

   * Midnight's Children (how old does it have to be to be a classic?)

   * Paradise Lost, Iliad, Odyssey

   * The God of Small Things

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4. jxubJun 2018
   From where I stand, Hispanic and Slavic literature is fairly unknown and underrated on the other side of the pond.

   Ramón del Valle Inclán's "Lights of Bohemia": A great portrait of Madrid and the dirty guts of the Spain from 100 years ago, written in a gorgeously precise, dark and multifaceted range of vocabulary.

   Ortega y Gasset's "Rebellion of the Masses". It is centered in the individual "I am me and my circumstances" and its evolution since the enlightenment.

   Sapkowski's "Witcher". Look for a good translation, lots of Slavic mythology tidbits and wonderfully juicy curse words.

   Stanislaw Lem's "The Star Diaries". Nice if you like to fantasize about buying pieces for your spaceship in a shopping centre or think about chair-like aliens with 11 different sexes (in the book).

   Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "A hundred years of solitude". The book is all about "realismo fantástico", joining the real and imaginary words in an unforgettable blend.

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5. dschiptsovJan 2016
   No Sartre or Camous? No Hundred Years of Solitude? No Pamuk? No Henry Miller? No Nabokov's "Dar", no "Ishmael", no " Stepenwolf", no "Dorian Gray", no "Brave New World"? No "mockingbird", no "Atlas", no motorcycle maintenance? No dr.Zhivago? What kind of a list it is?
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6. gskMar 2015
   Oh my! That was harsh and cleverly concealed too! My observation was lost in translation. I have nothing against Africa. I read Achebe and consider Things Fall Apart to be one of the best books I have read along with Hundred Years of Solitude.
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