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NFT: Gabriel Garcia Marquez died today

Pork and Beans : 4/17/2014 5:01 pm
I loved One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. Sad.
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chris r : 4/17/2014 5:05 pm : link
Here
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Dont. Fucking. Care  
alligatorpie : 4/17/2014 5:22 pm : link
read them. meh.
RE: Dont. Fucking. Care  
chris r : 4/17/2014 5:26 pm : link
In comment 11625609 alligatorpie said:
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read them. meh.


Do you like good literature generally?
hehe  
alligatorpie : 4/17/2014 5:31 pm : link
Pork and Beans, G.G.M. was big time baby boomer lit.

Get with the program, man.
Chris  
alligatorpie : 4/17/2014 5:32 pm : link
prior to my 'accident' I did. now, after the brain injury, ...meh.

but GGM always sucked.
I thought he was one of the greats.  
yatqb : 4/17/2014 6:24 pm : link
RIP!
RE: Chris  
chris r : 4/17/2014 6:26 pm : link
In comment 11625626 alligatorpie said:
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prior to my 'accident' I did. now, after the brain injury, ...meh.

but GGM always sucked.


Disagree. I actually haven't been able to make it through 100 years of solitude but love in a time of cholera is one of the greatest novels of the 20th century IMO.
all I know chris is that  
alligatorpie : 4/17/2014 6:36 pm : link
whilst reading it I was walking down the street when a very large man with enormous wings and covered with lice, flew down and ripped my spinal cord out into a blazing diamond colored fire.

at the same time, maria elisando partimenio was boiling rice porridge in the cocina, chatting with..
I'm not  
thomasa510 : 4/17/2014 10:13 pm : link
I'm not a fan of mystical realism either and alligator kind of nailed it.

I like good literature but he doesn't do it for me.

Still rip
RE: all I know chris is that  
chris r : 4/17/2014 10:21 pm : link
In comment 11625712 alligatorpie said:
Quote:
whilst reading it I was walking down the street when a very large man with enormous wings and covered with lice, flew down and ripped my spinal cord out into a blazing diamond colored fire.

at the same time, maria elisando partimenio was boiling rice porridge in the cocina, chatting with..


Did you read Love in a Time of Cholera? Its not mystical realism at all.
alligator  
G.O.B. : 4/17/2014 10:38 pm : link
Nice class. I personally love what I've read by GGM, but even if I didn't care for what he wrote, I wouldn't feel the need to click on this thread and write "Dont. Fucking. Care. read them. meh."
Alligators comments  
reveal him to be a self centered philistine and proud of it, basically proving my point in the other thread. Worst generation.
yes  
alligatorpie : 12:24 pm : link
and I was actually kidding...or trolling.

I read it. It was a fine read. But yeah. Boomers.

I am an X'er.

Apologies for trolling.
and then, suddenly  
alligatorpie : 2:47 pm : link
all our questions about this novelist:

Our suspicions that the New York Times Review of Books 30 year love affair with him was partly due to his writing and partly due to trendy political dinner party chatter,

and our loving East Coast relatives propensity for putting his books high on the best part of the bookshelf in the front room....

and our nagging suspicion that his books were good, but not SO good as to crowd out other fantastic writers from the limelight....

and suddenly in today's New York Times obit...there he is with his 'lifelong good friend Fidel Castro'....and....all the little signs come together.

the slippery little bastard
Never was a huge fan  
kickerpa16 : 2:50 pm : link
but an undeniable and immense talent.
You don't have to like something to appreciate it.  
BigBlueBuff : 3:24 pm : link
...
like me....and you  
alligatorpie : 3:28 pm : link
(joke, dont even know you, sorry)
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