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„Everybody has to die. I prefer to die for a crime I have committed rather than to die for one of the crimes which you have committed.“

I just want to publicly state that i am not reading this of my own volition. This was a book club pick and as usual i am unable to resist my own curiosity, so there‘s no escaping this dire situation really.

How many unnecessarily prolonged descriptions of an unimportant war does a book need? According to García Márquez apparently ALL OF THEM.

„Imagine trying to shop for crunchy snacks with a toddler and heightened near-animal sense of smell while the enormity of patriarchal society loomed behind every box of farm-themed crackers, in the crackle of every pretzel bag you picked up.“

250 pages in and i don’t think i can finish this book. Despite the hype it‘s been getting, the story is boring me to death.