One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude is by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This is a very hard book to describe what happened because it is not mearly one story, but what seems like hundreds. The umbrella story is about one family and their struggles of helping to start the new town of Marcondo in Mexico.
I give this book a 3.5 out of 5. I really did struggled through this book. It all comes together in the last chapter, literally on the last page and makes the book wonderful. Once I finished it and had read the whole book, along with that last page, I had a great appreciation for this book. But to actually get to that last page took some real work and a lot of just reading for readings sake. This book is the Nobel Prize winner for Literature in 1982, thus it is an important piece of literature.
Marquez's writing style is really wonderous. He is truely a master of storytelling. The only problem is that there are too many stories and too many characters in this book. I constantly had to kept flipping through and figuring out who each character was, as it is about a family who grows to be very large and its about a family for a hundred years. Even though it was a hard book to read it had a lot of really good, interesting, and well written stories within it.