There's a lot to like, but I also think there are some very serious flaws with the book...both @Cozy reading with Quaker cats and @Christy Luis - Dostoevsky in Space put out great reviews recently that are mostly critical and identify some legitimately "problematic" elements. I'd be curious to hear what you think of course!
Thank you , now I’m really excited to start reading. For years I’ve been reading mostly nonfiction but this year I’m vowing to read more fiction. Love that you intrigued me into trying this book by putting me on the lookout for anthropological themes within. Thank you. Opening the page now... it’s kind of scary ... I’m afraid of I don’t know . Okay just opening and starting to read. Thanks again.
I didn’t even think about Macondo experiencing the Fall from Eden, but you’re completely right 🤯 Death didn’t know about Macondo for so long! And everybody was so happy and everything was fair, in the beginning. Very cool connection. I think Aurelia Segundo was reading 1001 Nights or something very similar :D
So many great connections, anthropological and theological origins and how the fall of progress relate to the themes of One Hundred Years Of Solitude is such an interesting access point into the novel's increasingly chaotic story structure, and larger message. Great discussion!
The paradox of Eden is that it’s ‘unnatural’, in the sense that the harmony described in Genesis and Paradise Lost ignores Nature’s own problem of evil, which really ought to be just as troubling to the materialist-atheist as what Ivan Karamazov has to say against God’s design of things in The Brothers Karamazov.
@@ami1649 I've really been enjoying reading Blood Meridian as a picture of all this writ large. The Judge is an agent of civilization/domestication but his idea that God is War seems to be extrapolated from Nature (i.e. it's 'indifference').
![일상 속 기분 좋음 [Proto disco meme]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/DwmEIaZ7XGQ/mqdefault.jpg)
So happy to be reading this with you. You bring such enlightening ideas to the discussion. 💕 Thank you!!
Thank you Dani! We've assembled an awesome team here :)
I need to read 100 Years of Solitide.
There's a lot to like, but I also think there are some very serious flaws with the book...both @Cozy reading with Quaker cats and @Christy Luis - Dostoevsky in Space put out great reviews recently that are mostly critical and identify some legitimately "problematic" elements. I'd be curious to hear what you think of course!
Nice Ami! I love all the connections.
Thank you!
Never heard this concept before with Eve and the Hunter Gather transition. I'm still on page 80. Ya'll read so fast!
I immensely enjoyed this!
Thank you!
Well put, Ami! I am happy you are in for this read along. What a wonderful dream/memory 100yrs of solitude is!
Thanks Noah!
Thank you , now I’m really excited to start reading. For years I’ve been reading mostly nonfiction but this year I’m vowing to read more fiction. Love that you intrigued me into trying this book by putting me on the lookout for anthropological themes within. Thank you. Opening the page now... it’s kind of scary ... I’m afraid of I don’t know . Okay just opening and starting to read. Thanks again.
I didn’t even think about Macondo experiencing the Fall from Eden, but you’re completely right 🤯 Death didn’t know about Macondo for so long! And everybody was so happy and everything was fair, in the beginning. Very cool connection.
I think Aurelia Segundo was reading 1001 Nights or something very similar :D
So many great connections, anthropological and theological origins and how the fall of progress relate to the themes of One Hundred Years Of Solitude is such an interesting access point into the novel's increasingly chaotic story structure, and larger message.
Great discussion!
Thank you!
Is it me or have you invested in a new cam? It looks great!!
The paradox of Eden is that it’s ‘unnatural’, in the sense that the harmony described in Genesis and Paradise Lost ignores Nature’s own problem of evil, which really ought to be just as troubling to the materialist-atheist as what Ivan Karamazov has to say against God’s design of things in The Brothers Karamazov.
I'll have to think about this!
@@ami1649 I've really been enjoying reading Blood Meridian as a picture of all this writ large. The Judge is an agent of civilization/domestication but his idea that God is War seems to be extrapolated from Nature (i.e. it's 'indifference').