Thea’s review of One Hundred Years of Solitude > Likes and Comments

I fear incestuousness is common with this author. Don't read Love in the Time of Cholera unless you're prepared to throw the book across the room. People generally praise it as romantic, but no. It's a disease.

I read 100 Years at least 30 years ago and loved it. It was my introduction to magic realism, so I missed taking offense because I was bowled over by the genre. I later taught the short story by Allende, "Two Words," which introduced my students to magic realism. I can recommend that short story.

I appreciate your response, Jan. I am currently halfway through Allende's The House of the Spirits because I want to see how she employs magical realism in what I assumed would be a family saga as well, and it is. I'll add a review when I am done. Both of these reads were chosen specifically to see how authors employ magical realism in large novels with potentially multiple points-of-view over large spans of time. This is in preparation for my next novel. I have a novel currently out at presses that contains magical realism over a short span of time.