This is unironically the greatest novel of the 20th Century

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Too much gossip going on. It feels like a book for old women.

boof kid

Which contemporary book do you think it's better?

I got too bored halfway through to keep going

how many novels of the 20th century have you read?

"slaps The Bridge on the Drina on the table"
Ay yo nigga u better SHUT THE FUCK UP.

Abolish private property starting with your pussy

you mean the only novel you've read of the 20th century?

Without any proper focus on a story at a time it felt like I was reading a list. To anyone thinking about reading this book I'd recommend you don't bother. Imagine Dubliners but the stories are three times longer, less engaging and clumsily put together. The book certainly has charm and after reading the first chapter I had some high hopes but it just feels too repetitive. If the book was focused on thing at a time then I'd think it was a masterpiece but too many things are going on, there is no proper build to the things which are supposed to be impactful. A potential masterpiece certainly but I don't know how you can read it without getting bored around page 150.

Ah magical realism. What's that you say? There's a plot hole in muh story? B-b-but muh magic...

there's a part where a women complains to a man for what it feels like five pages and the guy just sits there silently and takes it

Just started reading it and am about 160 pages in. I feel theres too much going going on, so many characters jumping in and out of the narrative, making it feel like im reading a book that has been condensed. Hopefully it will connect everything more later on in the book.

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Oh, you have yet to read Celine? Don't worry, you'll get there when you grow up.

Has anyone in this thread actually read a book written in the 20th century, 100 years is defiantly not the worst offender in terms of books that are seemingly plotless

>reading for the plot

Most by Pynchon, most by Joyce, all by Nabokov.

That's true, OP.

I think there's a case that it's the most influential. It's had more impact on your average reader than the high modernist stuff and has fuckloads of copyists, some of whom are good. The whole magical realist thing also has tangible effects on other media. Wouldn't say it's the best though. Not even 100% sure it's the best GGM.

>story
I think your problem here is reading it without knowledge of the history it's paraphrasing. It's a book about a country, after all. Same goes for a lot of people who read e.g. Midnight's Children and wonder why the plot turns out like it does.

there's only three nabokov novels that are on the same level

>A potential masterpiece certainly but I don't know how you can read it without getting bored around page 150.
because the last chapter is kino af

yeah, probably

>mfw i recognize a reference to a life event in fiction literature

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I'll accept that, since I never read the russian ones. But those three are surely better than OP.

Also, I forgot to mention: À La Recherche du Temps Perdu

or maybe just pay attention. It's so easily understandable, the only potentially confusing aspect is the family names, but even then you're not really meant to exactly know the family links because they are mostly explained.

I always see people criticizing the "middle" of the book and praising the beginning and the end.
I did something different and divided the book in 5 parts: The first is good, the second is amazing, the third is a slog, the fourth is amazing again and the fifth is fine (but I found the final chapter strange). I enjoyed the sadboy JoJo from Colombia parts more than the rest.

What the fuck is wrong with Colombian women?
Is it autism?

Based gonna check this out

Yeah the joke is that it’s a huge run-on sentence, Latin American culture is huge on poking fun at family

It does through its metaphorical elements, there are repetitions and foreshadowings, sort of like transmutations of settings and personalities. Never direct.

What would you recommend by him?

Thank you :)

It's good, but the lack of a through line really makes it hard for me to invest

Not him, but i'm reading journey to the end of the night and it's fucking great so far

Thanks!

it has a 10/10 opening chapter and a 11/10 final chapter, but everything in between is a solid 7 at best