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| Record 1251 of 1411 |
| | Author | | Fogle, Ben
| | | Title | | "My Six Best Books," The Express
| | | Publisher | | Express Newspapers | | | Publication place | | London, UK | | | Publication year | | April 8, 2005 | | | Page | | Features; 53 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | Ben Fogle lists Gabriel García Márquez's book One Hundred Years of Solitude as one of his six best books. Fogle states that the book is "a complicated tale, like a patchwork, with a zillion characters. It's set in a Colombian town, and the focal point is a Latin American family." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 1252 of 1411 |
| | Author | | Walker, Kevin
| | | Title | | "Books Everyone Should Read," Tampa Tribune
| | | Publisher | | The Tribune Co. | | | Publication place | | Tampa, FL | | | Publication year | | May 15, 2005 | | | Page | | Baylife; 8 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | Walker reviews Chronicle of a Death Foretold, stating that "this slim volume might be the best entry into Márquez's work. It contains many of the elements that mark so much of his fiction - love, fate, familial ties, dreams, desperation, magic - as well as some of his tightest writing." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 1253 of 1411 |
| | Author | | Membery, York
| | | Title | | "5 of The Best," Daily Mail
| | | Publisher | | Associated Newspapers Ltd. | | | Publication place | | London, UK | | | Publication year | | May 21, 2005 | | | Page | | Weekend; 22 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | "Sue Macgregor, presenter of the Radio 4 series, A Good Read, tells York Membery about her favourite novels..." Love in The Time Of Cholera is one of them. She states that "the warm slow prose and the magic realism Márquez has made famous, matches the dreamy heat of the South American setting." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 1254 of 1411 |
| | Author | | Walker, Kevin
| | | Title | | "Books Everyone Should Read," Tampa Tribune
| | | Publisher | | The Tribune Co. | | | Publication place | | Tampa, FL | | | Publication year | | July 24, 2005 | | | Page | | Baylife; 6 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | Walker lists One Hundred Years of Solitude as a book everyone should read. He states that "reading Gabriel García Márquez is akin to sitting around a campfire, listening to a master storyteller, and his prose retains its magic even in translation from the Spanish." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 1255 of 1411 |
| | Author | | Ghandour, Rania
| | | Title | | "71 One Hundred Years of Solitude," The West Australian
| | | Publisher | | West Australian Newspapers Limited | | | Publication place | | Australia | | | Publication year | | August 25, 2005 | | | Page | | Features; 16 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | Review of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. The review states that the book "transformed world literature when it was published in 1967. | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 1256 of 1411 |
| | Author | | Lanham, Fritz
| | | Title | | "Fact of Fiction? Fall has it all; Book Some Time to Explore What
| | | Publisher | | The Houston Chronicle Publishing Company | | | Publication place | | Houston, TX | | | Publication year | | August 28, 2005 | | | Page | | Zest; 15 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | Fritz reviews García Márquez's book Memories of My Melancholy Whores. Fritz states that the book "triggers recollections of a lifetime of paid-for sex and ultimately a vision of uncorrupted love." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 1257 of 1411 |
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| | | Title | | "New Crop of Books Ready for Harvest," Sunday News
| | | Publisher | | Lancaster Newspapers, Inc | | | Publication place | | Lancaster, PA | | | Publication year | | September 4, 2005 | | | Page | | 5 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | In this Review of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores it is stated that the book is about "a 90-year-old man who decides to give himself a night of love." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 1258 of 1411 |
| | Author | | Donahue, Deirdre
| | | Title | | "Diversity in Fiction Yields a Bounty," USA Today
| | | Publisher | | Gannett Company, Inc | | | Publication place | | McLean, VA | | | Publication year | | September 8, 2005 | | | Page | | Life; 6D | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | In this review of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Deirdre Donahue explains that "the narrator is expert in the world of love for money but finds that transformation is possible even at the end of life." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 1259 of 1411 |
| | Author | |
| | | Title | | "Memories of my Melancholy Whores," Kirkus Reviews
| | | Publisher | | VNU Business Media, Inc | | | Publication place | | New York, NY | | | Publication year | | July 15, 2005 | | | Page | | Fiction: 754 | | | Volume | | 73 | | | Issue | | 14 | | | Notes | | This review of Memories of My Melancholy Whores states that "There is no indication--unless it is the word "melancholy" in the title--that García Márquez means his tale to be the parody of macho idiocy it appears to be. His hero ends revitalized and radiantly optimistic, while readers are left wondering, "Can he be serious?" What can't be dismissed, however, is García Márquez's gift for the casually adept insight." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 1260 of 1411 |
| | Author | | Watson, Ian
| | | Title | | "García Márquez v Kawabata, The Guardian
| | | Publisher | | Guardian Newspapers Limited | | | Publication place | | London, UK | | | Publication year | | October 15, 2005 | | | Page | | Guardian Review Pages; 15 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | Ian Watson compares García Márquez's novel Memoria de mis putas tristes with Yasunari Kawabata's House of the Sleeping Beauties, stating that it has "Exactly the same theme of old man and comatose drugged girl(s)." | | | URL | | | |
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