riverdog wrote:The only thing of his I've read is 'Hundred Years' and enjoyed that. Stream of consciousness from an insane mind... I still re and re-read Dylan Thomas poetry and short fiction.
if you read 100 years and liked it, go for Love in the Time . At least you won't have to try to keep a few generations of families straight...just 51 years of one guy in love.
I don't really read much these days, at least not much literature, and was never a "best seller list" reader. The last few years I've read about Cod, the Dust Bowl, and the Boston Molasses Flood...but for years it was about the author's sentence construction and detail, and Marquez just blew my mind. No one ever walked up a staircase, they ascended the structure while the intoxicating aroma of the almond trees competed with the dank mustiness off the bogs that rode in with the southeasterly breezes that announced April in a way that...........
and all the character was doing was going to his bedroom!
too tedious for anyone other than word freaks.