Before beginning the book I read reviews on if and expected to hate it. Within 10 pages I was fully absorbed in the book and couldn't imagine how someone could not continue reading this.

Half way through the book I wanted to throw it and just pretend like it had ended where I was happy. I kept going though and the book is revived slowly just like reality. There are ups and downs, times of happiness and those of total depression, Márquez takes us through the journey beautifully, as a reader you go from feeling of glee to anger, from amazement to negative disbelief. It's just an incredible book.

P.S. I see lots of complains about the genealogy. This wasn't a problem for me, I used the chart at the beginning of the book and simply used common sense to keep up with deaths and births of all the Aureliano's and other repetitions as time progressed.