I’ve wanted to read One Hundred Years of Solitude for a long time. After two false starts, this past summer I finally cracked it. I made it 250 pages in, enjoying every word, until I hit a wall and it suddenly became a major slog. Now I have 200 pages left (according to my Kindle, at the chapter that starts “Dazzled by so many and such marvelous inventions …”) but zero motivation to continue.
I think I hit a wall because nearly everything that the narration reveals about the future of Colonel Aureliano has come to pass at this point in the story. He’s sitting around waiting to die, most of his contemporaries are dead, and I can’t fathom how there could be 200 more pages. I haven’t opened it in 5 months now and I want to figure out how to move on before 2024 starts!
Please help me find some motivation to continue. What is there left to say about this family? Or what have I missed that turned it into such a slog? Am I better off just giving up? I’m ok with light spoilers! Thanks!
by de_propjoe