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Originally Posted by maianhvk
Perhaps young minds seek adventure, thriller, fantasy, and heroic actions rather than a Magical realism. Perhaps the only thing I can do about it is getting back when I'm mature enough.
Correct me if my memory has already collected dust, but there is this detail in "100 years of solitude" that has something to do with a pig tail, right?
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Yep, you're correct! It mentions pigs in the beginning and in the end of the book. I can't say why because it would be a spoiler for a lot of folks.
I don't know many people who went out of their way to read One Hundred Years of Solitude as teenagers, that's really cool. I've always read a lot but I think I was still reading Dragonlance when I was 14. Nothing wrong with Dragonlance, it's fun and stuff but I definitely didn't go very far to try out other material, regardless of whether I ended up liking it or not. I think I read an online translation of Luo Guanzhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms. This was because I was playing a lot of Koei games at the time: Dynasty Warriors and the RTK turn-based games. Oh, those were the days ;D
I don't think liking One Hundred Years of Solitude has anything to do with maturity. Just read it if you're interested again. I read Marquez whenever I want something "strange, surprisingly funny, and very different." For me, the value of the book is that it created a desire for me to experience something that nothing else (but this book) can offer. And the desire isn't quenched after reading it. Instead, I feel like it opened some gates in my brain and I'm more open to other ideas and experiences. It creates an enduring change in the reader. That's how I'd define a 5 star book over a 4 star book. It's more of a continuum, really. There's books that come close, but aren't fully on the other side of the fence.