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Before I started reading this book, Goodreads have already recorded 73,000 ratings and 3,500 reviews.
When I was reading this book, I found out some friends had read this book at his/her school age. How lucky you are, my friends. This is a good novel.
There are thousands correct ways to write a story. This novel used one of the rarely used ways. It was using non-linear timeline story, move back-and-forth between multi POV from a same morning when the incident occurred. It was not the first story using it ("In The Groove" of Rashomon and Other Stories came to my mind), but Márquez added more factors into the story: unavoidable fate (no matter how good your intentions or how hard your efforts), or how some persons were weak-willed too afraid to intervene. In other words, this fiction injected some realistic factors in the novel, combined with skillful writing.
I want to point the HAPPY ending for this novel. How genius Márquez put the real end of the story in the middle of the story at the end of part 4. I have re-read those a few last paragraphs of part 4, even in the middle of writing this review. It was so beautiful romance/relationship/love story where the older Bayardo San Roman came to Angela Vicario, bringing unopened Angela's two thousands letters.
When I was reading this book, I found out some friends had read this book at his/her school age. How lucky you are, my friends. This is a good novel.
There are thousands correct ways to write a story. This novel used one of the rarely used ways. It was using non-linear timeline story, move back-and-forth between multi POV from a same morning when the incident occurred. It was not the first story using it ("In The Groove" of Rashomon and Other Stories came to my mind), but Márquez added more factors into the story: unavoidable fate (no matter how good your intentions or how hard your efforts), or how some persons were weak-willed too afraid to intervene. In other words, this fiction injected some realistic factors in the novel, combined with skillful writing.
I want to point the HAPPY ending for this novel. How genius Márquez put the real end of the story in the middle of the story at the end of part 4. I have re-read those a few last paragraphs of part 4, even in the middle of writing this review. It was so beautiful romance/relationship/love story where the older Bayardo San Roman came to Angela Vicario, bringing unopened Angela's two thousands letters.