Title: Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Thoughts: Okay. Admission time. Embarrassing admission. I have never been able to get through a Marquez book. And I have tried. I cannot begin to tell you how long One Hundred Years of Solitude sat in my bathroom. A million years. Or at least two. I couldn't get through it! I'm sorry, because I know so many people swear by his writing. At last, with Chronicle I begin to understand why. This is a short little book, and it packs so much punch into it's 120 pages... it's hard to wrap my brain around. No word is extraneous. Every description is amazing. The hints of layers and layers and layers astound. So, perhaps... perhaps I will move Marquez back into my reading list.
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