yea.. the whole story of colonel buendia.. seemed like taken out of the standard latin american revolutionary template...

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raw_dust:

yeah, marquez is indeed buddies with castro. and why should he not be? the tale of castro and the revolution he lead is no less bizzare and uplifting than the ’magical realism’ novels!

i think marquez may even live in cuba for much of the time.

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rozaiba:
he has directing credits for only the first episode of season 1 & 2 and perhaps he was assigned to curtain raise all the seasons but thats the two i watched.... series is a strictly Alan Ball project(writer/outliner/producer).. Ball wrote american beauty .. that kinda ok movie with kevin spacey and annette benning ....

Rodrigo Garcia also did a movie that went straight to vdo.. ’’Things you can tell just by looking at her’’... i ve not seen it though... nor heard if its good...

one funny thing is gabo is not allowed entry in USA cos he is supposedly buddies with Castro...

cipram:
i meant by that ’fantastical’ .. basically anything from 20th century... marquez pynchon phil roth rushdie kafka joyce.. waghaira waghaira...

cheers-

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whoa! that was gabo’s son? saw a few adds of ’six feet under’ on hbo. ’living to tell the tale’ is his autobiography i think.

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Raw_Dust#12.
thanks for telling me about autobiography.
And eyes of the Blue dog.
’may be more fantastical’

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rozaiba: chup kar

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-yea Remedios the Beauty not the F the Daza lady..

-i want to read his other stuff first before going for the autobiography.. i think it is coming out in parts... the only first part is out i think...

- he wrote this short story that is one of my fav. it is called ’’Eyes of a Blue Dog’’... brilliant!

- cipram sahib: what kind of subjects interest you?...i mean.. realism.. linear writings rooted in awami themes etc.. or something else maybe more fantastical ?

-for watever its worth.. gabo’s son Rodrigo Garcia is trying to get into a movie directing career... he directed an episode for the tv. series six feet under .. then i think he also did a movie too ... i wouldnt mind to pay to see his stuff ....

cheers

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sobia

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Sobia:
Look who’s being pretentious! You know I’m extremely intelligent. So why speculate about the intelligence level?

I’ll help you out. Do this. When reading OHYOS, draw parallels with world history. The sequence of events of stories told through the Koran, Bible etc are captured in this nonsensical and bizarre village of Macondo. Keeping the historical parallels in mind is one way to really enjoy the book.

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good, so u did get yr hands on this one! i wunder why u cudnt digest?
sorry i dint mean to be rude only that i found the comment quite interesting

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my God...either you people are VERY intelligent or you’re all pretending to be..i did not get the book at ALL..i had to leave it in the middle..i’ve never read such a complicated book in my whole frikkin life.

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cipram, we look forward to your work!

killer, yeah, there were plenty tantilizing descriptions of sexual passages as life went on non-stop in the village of Macondo...the passages were not really explicit but a rather innovative approach was used to describe the out-of-this-world-sex - just like everything else in the book was out-of-this-world!

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Well....actually my dad got the book from the library a few years back. I secretly read only the sex bits and skipped eveything else

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Raw_Dust ,rozaiba, nb ,
thanx to repond.
This wonderful novel has given incentive to new writer .
i like the character ’Ursala’’. The way she had been protecting herself
from procreation that was amazing!.It gave me belly busting laughter.
The way she treated her sons for distraction from work, gave them herbal medicine for worms
And so many passages to laugh and learn.
it’s really wonderful.

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this is one of the best books ever, his books make me feel delirious.

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i think it was ’R’ lady

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