Man I'm sorry guys, I just can't seem to be on the blogging game in any sort of regular fashion. To be fair, things in my life have been a little "cray" of recent because of moving and having a battle with diarrhea. But those things have somewhat settled down (the former mostly) so I will be making a solid effort to find time to get on the blogging game. As my first post back I want to do a book review of a book. The book is called "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
This book was a real good book. The reason I think it was a real good book is because the author just said the most fanciful, amazing things out of normal situations. For example there were many people who lived 150 years or greater, there was a girl who just floated away, there were alchemists and there was a situation where a man lived tied to a tree for years on years. This author wouldn't say things like "it rained really bad for a few days"; instead he'd say "it rained for 20 years." (did I use the ";" correctly? who knows?) Other interesting things that happened were a guy living in one room and not leaving that room for a very long time.
Essentially this book was successful because the author used his freedom to create fantastical events and situations whenever possible. These types of things are inherently more interesting than things we are more familiar with and they greatly added to the story.
That being said I think that there is another possible answer to why such amazing things happened in this story when it comes of as somewhat of a historical fiction type piece. Lost in translation. AKA I think Bill Murray wrote this book. No I'm kidding. But I am serious about translation issues. I think this book was written in Spanish so its possible that when the author was translated as saying "And the guy killed 124199 men in battle" what he actually said was "And the guy was in battles where 124199 men were killed." Or something of this sort. The sentences are often quite choppy and abrupt and it is not clear to me that this is necessarily the original wording's goal - or if it was entirely translated via google translate.
In any case, a fun thing to read because lots of things happen in this book that don't happen in the real world.
This book was a real good book. The reason I think it was a real good book is because the author just said the most fanciful, amazing things out of normal situations. For example there were many people who lived 150 years or greater, there was a girl who just floated away, there were alchemists and there was a situation where a man lived tied to a tree for years on years. This author wouldn't say things like "it rained really bad for a few days"; instead he'd say "it rained for 20 years." (did I use the ";" correctly? who knows?) Other interesting things that happened were a guy living in one room and not leaving that room for a very long time.
Essentially this book was successful because the author used his freedom to create fantastical events and situations whenever possible. These types of things are inherently more interesting than things we are more familiar with and they greatly added to the story.
That being said I think that there is another possible answer to why such amazing things happened in this story when it comes of as somewhat of a historical fiction type piece. Lost in translation. AKA I think Bill Murray wrote this book. No I'm kidding. But I am serious about translation issues. I think this book was written in Spanish so its possible that when the author was translated as saying "And the guy killed 124199 men in battle" what he actually said was "And the guy was in battles where 124199 men were killed." Or something of this sort. The sentences are often quite choppy and abrupt and it is not clear to me that this is necessarily the original wording's goal - or if it was entirely translated via google translate.
In any case, a fun thing to read because lots of things happen in this book that don't happen in the real world.
i heard that reading about pretend things makes you a gaylord
ReplyDeletereading in general makes you a gaylord. real men don't read.
ReplyDeletefind the Spanish version and read it.
ReplyDeleteSpanish 1 represent.
1) Reading is how you free your mind from everything you think you know - and learn everything you never possibly could experience.
ReplyDelete2) Don't "read" - instead allow yourself to escape.
3) Snarky comment.
fuck glo
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