Latest “#StrangeNewWorlds” ep “Among the Lotus Eaters” is a riff on the forgetting sickness from Márquez’ “#OneHundredYearsOfSolitude,” a literary description of semantic dementia.

“Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.” — Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

Called Magic Realism. Created some truly disturbing images.

Fourth literary classic on this list:

https://www.britannica.com/list/12-novels-considered-the-greatest-book-ever-written

#quotes #LiteraryClassics #Booksodon #reading #OneHundredYearsOfSolitude #GabrielGarciaMarquez

#FinishedReading #OneHundredYearsOfSolitude by #GabrielGarciaMarquez

An incredible book; worth all the hype. I enjoyed this one much more than I expected

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/9f3fdfbe-9538-4e60-a44a-42e02a3d5893

I read Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude in my native langue around 15 years ago and instantly fell in love with it. I'm now rereading it in English and ye gods, it's just as fascinating, compelling, and magical as it was back then.

#reading #readers #onehundredyearsofsolitude

#7books to get to know me, I guess most people are doing novels. Apparently this is the new thing, let’s get started:

#INostriAntenati by #ItaloCalvino (aka The Cloven Viscount, The Invisible Knight, and the Baron in the Trees).
#OneHundredYearsofSolitude by #GabrielGarciaMarquez
#TheMinistryForTheFuture by #KimStanleyRobinson
#TheOverstory by #RichardLPowers
#Foucaults Pendulum by #UmbertoEco
#Piranesi by #SusannaClarke
#TheHandmaidsTale by #MargaretAtwood

"Let's forget about each other forever," she told km. "We're too old for this sort of thing now."

#OneHundredYearsOfSolitude #GabrielGarcíaMárquez

"How strange men are," she said, because she could not think of anything else to say. "They spend their lives fighting against the priests and then give prayerbooks as gifts."
#OneHundredYearsOfSolitude #GabrielGarcíaMárquez