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Title: Big disappointment
Review: I guess Gabriel Garcia Marquez is enough of a legend that book reviewers will fawn all over him even when he writes a mess like this. There is just very little in this book that is interesting. It seems to be random memories in no particular order of people and places that aren't particularly interesting at all described in an endless string of cliches. I'm sure these random anecdotes are fun for the author's family and friends (who actually have some idea who all these people are who get mentioned for a paragraph then dropped) to read, but for the rest of us, who cares? I gave up after struggling about half way through when I started dry heaving after I read this amazingly bad line: "I had to take the trip back and forth several times during the four years of the baccalaureate and another two at the university, and each time I learned more about life than I ever did in school."
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