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I had to stop reading A Hundred Years of Solitude about halfway through because the pedo shit creeped me out too much. I can't tell if I'm just being too lol sensitive and should give it another chance. It's not for school or anything so I don't feel obligated to finish, but I'm wondering if I should bother. I really like the genre and the way Garcia Marquez write, so I don't know. DO YOU HAVE THOUGHTS, FLIST?
I do really fucking love Isabel Allende, though. I'm reading Paula now and I finished Zorro a few months ago. Zorro had some flaws. The ending was a bit of a let-down, but I really fucking loved it because IT WAS THE FIRST BOOK I EVER READ ENTIRELY IN SPANISH. \o/ Well, I did read El Dador (The Giver) a few years ago, but I don't think that counts because I've read that a bunch of times in English. Also, Zorro was about pirates and a dude's somewhat misguided mission for ~*~social justice~*~, which is more than you can say for, for example, Captain Blood.
FUN STORY ABOUT CAPTAIN BLOOD: someone writes it for Yuletide every year so I guess I can't be the only one, but what pissed me off is that on the back of the book it's described as "a swashbuckling tale with a strong anti-slavery message." Which sounds awesome! Except...the book is about a white guy who gets sold to a sugar plantation in Barbados in the 1600s and then escapes to become a pirate. And all the black characters are both slaves and evil henchmen to the main bad guy. So I guess the "anti-slavery message" was that "slavery is bad...for white people," which I somehow don't think was that progressive, even in 1922, when the book was published.
My bff always laughs at me, though, because even though it's been three years I STILL CANNOT SHUT UP ABOUT HOW MUCH I HATE CAPTAIN BLOOD. It is the Space Mutiny of pirate novels.
I do really fucking love Isabel Allende, though. I'm reading Paula now and I finished Zorro a few months ago. Zorro had some flaws. The ending was a bit of a let-down, but I really fucking loved it because IT WAS THE FIRST BOOK I EVER READ ENTIRELY IN SPANISH. \o/ Well, I did read El Dador (The Giver) a few years ago, but I don't think that counts because I've read that a bunch of times in English. Also, Zorro was about pirates and a dude's somewhat misguided mission for ~*~social justice~*~, which is more than you can say for, for example, Captain Blood.
FUN STORY ABOUT CAPTAIN BLOOD: someone writes it for Yuletide every year so I guess I can't be the only one, but what pissed me off is that on the back of the book it's described as "a swashbuckling tale with a strong anti-slavery message." Which sounds awesome! Except...the book is about a white guy who gets sold to a sugar plantation in Barbados in the 1600s and then escapes to become a pirate. And all the black characters are both slaves and evil henchmen to the main bad guy. So I guess the "anti-slavery message" was that "slavery is bad...for white people," which I somehow don't think was that progressive, even in 1922, when the book was published.
My bff always laughs at me, though, because even though it's been three years I STILL CANNOT SHUT UP ABOUT HOW MUCH I HATE CAPTAIN BLOOD. It is the Space Mutiny of pirate novels.