Mary > Recent Status Updates

I’m doing what I hardly ever do-abandoning this book. I wanted to read it because it’s a classic, seminal, influential work, but to me it’s pure drudgery. I’m not enjoying it or engaged by it at all, so why bother? Life is short and there’s too many good books out there to read!

I’m not going to make myself finish this, even though Marquez was a darling of the critics and a Nobel prize-winning author. I gave it a good try; I read 135/417 pages. But what’s the point if it’s a chore? Maybe I haven’t enough imagination, or am enough of a “dreamer” as one reviewer stated, but this book just seems like a disjointed, random, nonsensical mess with no real story or purpose. Enough!