One Hundred Years of Solitude
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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John Lee
About this listen
Includes a bonus PDF with a character chart!
One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career.
The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America.
Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.
©1964 Gabriel García Márquez (P)2013 Blackstone AudioWhat listeners say about One Hundred Years of Solitude
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- Anonymous User
- 20-06-2019
thoroughly enjoyable
a struggle to keep track of the ludicrous amounts of Aureliano's and Accardio's but enjoyable
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- David
- 25-01-2024
Boring narration
The narrator has a repetitive grandiloquent cadence that dulls the poetry and beauty of the writing.
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- Diana Prince
- 05-03-2017
Timeless
Would you consider the audio edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude to be better than the print version?
No. Both have their own attractions.
What was one of the most memorable moments of One Hundred Years of Solitude?
The book is full of memorable moments. Perhaps the ending would stand out among many such
Which character – as performed by John Lee – was your favourite?
The Colonel
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No
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- Thomas Booth
- 01-06-2021
A good job you can adjust playback speed.
I had to slow it down to 0.8 x as the narration is incredible fast. Otherwise, I great book and fantastic narration.
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- Anonymous User
- 18-06-2024
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i get why people love it, but I likewise didn't. I found it tedious and long-winded. Being conscious of sounding unsophisticated, I read for the pleasure of reading. Whether that is for the tale, the prose or the imagination of the writing, I love books for a thousand reasons, but mostly I love books for where they take me. Although this book took me to a wonderful place it seems to have gotten stuck there and I felt on a treadmill, biding my time to get off and towelling down. I've seen this book named as the best of all time - for me it may make top 200, but to me it's not a shadow on the likes of the French romantics or some of the British Victorian books. I feel like I should apologies, but it was to me, just OK....
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- Anonymous User
- 09-05-2019
A classic, engaging but hard to listen too
I loved the story but I really struggled with the narration. It felt like he was executing each sentence rather than caressing it along.
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- Anonymous User
- 23-06-2020
A truly magical book
This is a story about a magical family. A saga that spans generations with snippets of their lives that will make you feel that you are not too different from them some 300 years ago...
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- dvdlsl
- 25-09-2017
All the characters have the same names!
I found it very difficult to follow as quirky as it may be to have all your characters having the same names it just makes for confusion
The intonation of the narrator was also odd and off putting
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- Anonymous User
- 28-02-2022
A wonderful tale written in a super unique style!
I grew tired of the narrator's monotone waves of up and down emphasises which I felt half the time were out of sync with the author's intended high and low points throughout the book. This made it a bit harder to understand exactly how the author meant his words to be read and so I found myself looking past the narrator's choice of expression and really had to concentrate to get the intended message. Of course by chance, the other half of the time the narrator would land the appropriate emphasises antthe appropriate time and so it went.
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- Kim
- 06-09-2018
Oh for Armando Duran...
First things first - this is my absolute favourite book, of all time. I had read it twice before the audio version.
Now, John Lee is a fine narrator. I have enjoyed his work before, in John Banville's 'The Sea,' Orhan Pamuk's 'My Name is Red,' and Wilbur Smith's 'When the Lion Feeds.' He's definitely in my top 10. So I thought this would have been amazing. But it only took a few minutes to realise that he is the wrong choice here. I hate to give him one star, because he has a great voice, and it wasn't just the lack of a Spanish accent that was missing. This was all a little too breathless for me. There wasn't really any time to digest anything, before we were off again into a new generation of Buendias. The nuances were all absent.
I had recently finished the wonderful 'Love in the Time of Cholera', another Marquez book I had read before, but then had my delight increased tenfold with the impeccable delivery of Armando Duran. Oh, how this story needed Armando Duran. His restrained pace and natural language appreciation would have been a match made in heaven. John Lee did the best he could, but it needed that Spanish tone.
This was a 20 hour story crammed into 14 hours. It needed better pacing. It's not an easy audio experience, especially if you have not read it before. If you have the actual book to hand, it's worth keeping close by, so you can refer to the handy family tree, and remember just where you are.
Still my favourite. I will listen to this again, but I will yearn for the right narrator.
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