Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Former Nobel Laureate.

Anyone read his stuff. M-Tel read 100 Years of Solitude. Figured the more literate ones here might have picked his stuff up. I never did...
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Re: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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L-Jam3 wrote:Former Nobel Laureate.

Anyone read his stuff. M-Tel read 100 Years of Solitude. Figured the more literate ones here might have picked his stuff up. I never did...
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He wasn't for everyone. 100 years was odd to say the least. MAgical realism didn't work for me, but was still enthralled at points.
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I read a number of his books and stories - a great writer, but one I haven't read in years.

My favourite book of his - and one that is on my all time list - is The Story Of a Shipwrecked Sailor a slim book that tells the true story of a well, a shipwrecked sailor.

Fantastic stuff.
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I read Love In the Time of Cholera, and I think I understood it. It's about girls right?
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Giff wrote:I read Love In the Time of Cholera, and I think I understood it. It's about girls right?
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