Reading the Classics discussion

Hi everyone,

I am hoping some of you will join me in a side read and discussion of One Hundred Years of Solitude, the joint winner of the vote for February's Group Read.

A quick tip if you enjoy listening to audiobooks - the price has just dropped to £3.99 at Audible.co.uk.

I just got my copy from Audible, too! Looking forward to it :-)

Yes! Glad we are doing this a a side read. One year shy of the 50-year requirement, and one vote shy of being the main read!

I'm glad you opened the thread! I might join you after i'm done with Wuthering Heights.

The more, the merrier! :-D

Depending on when you want to start I may join you.

Hi Stephanie,

It's a Side Read to February's main choice, Wuthering Heights, so we will begin discussing it here as soon as we finish reading it - in my case, probably at the start of next week. :-)

This has been on my "to read" list forever. l'll start it this weekend. Thanks for the thread.

Yay, that's great! :-D

In case I'm not the only one getting confused by all the similar (and in some cases, identical) names - here's a helpful overview of the various characters and generations from SparkNotes: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/solitud...

How is everyone doing? I'm about 200 pages in – it has been a bit difficult to keep track of everything and everyone, but I love Marquez's writing.

Yes, I totally agree - the names are very confusing, but it is fascinating to see how history repeats itself.

Boy, and I thought Middlesex was bad about the inbreeding! At least they all had different names. I'm glad for the family tree at the beginning!

Hey, Guys, what's the group reading in August?

This is not the right thread, but the question is good. I opened a thread for nominations for August:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I never give up on a book, but I came dangerously close with this one... I can't believe my optimism back in February, as I have only just managed to finish it! I think choosing the audiobook was a big mistake, the narrator John Lee makes everything sound so sarcastic. I kept having to pause the recording to wonder how my perception of a character would have been different if their lines were read in a normal voice. All the men having really slow bass voices and all the women sounding like they were permanently on the brink of hysteria got old quite quickly... I gave the book two stars in the end - based on my experience of it, I would probably have given it one star, but I knew I would have liked it better had I read the book myself or listened to another narrator, so I gave my review an extra star to make up for that. Has anyone else finished it? What did you think?

I finished. it was difficult to get through. One of those "I'm glad I can say I read it but I'd never read it again" books.

That's exactly it!

I started it in the past, then put it down. Don't know if I'll ever try again.