Long ago, as a young adult, I tried this author's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and couldn't abide the magical realism. As I recall, I never finished it. But last year I read Laura Esquivel's "Like Water for Chocolate" and really liked it, even the magic. So I thought I'd try another Marquez.

This famous author's writing style is quite good. The story jumped around in time. It was amusing at first but later became slow and tedious. But I'm persistent and continued to slog along. By the halfway mark, it felt like I'd never reach the end.

Then I was rescued -- someone put the ebook on hold and it's gone. The end.

4 stars for the writing style and 2 stars for the story. ( )

DNF Got 74% through it but could not go any farther.

A marvelously intoxicating read. Live lived. Paths taken separately yet parallel.
I'll have to read this again in a few years. ( )

I wasn't a big fan of the writing style. I got lost often because we jumped through years of relationships in just a page or 2 and it would jump back and forth ( )

A well written, if lurid and disgusting, narrative centered in the obsession of a mentally ill sexual predator. ( )