One Hundred Years of Solitude

I probably went into reading this book with a biased perspective after hearing it reviewed on the Book Cheat podcast. However, I still loved this book. I read the entire thing over a weekend and probably did very little else — that’s how much I was consumed by this book.

This book is very challenging. Many of the characters have very similar names (this is on purpose) and the cyclical nature of the plot makes it difficult to follow the plotlines of various characters. I would ague that it doesn’t matter whether you follow them closely or not — the confusion may actually be the point.

This is a book about generational patterns and how the same “curses” keep showing up within a family. Anything left incomplete is doomed to continue until someone in the family resolves it, ultimately much too late.