Man, I really wanted to like this. 

I've heard such good things about this and it won the Nobel Prize to boot. I was starting to get into the story, but I think it comes down to personal preference that I don't care for Gabriel Garcia Marquez's writing style. 

I'd read "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" when I was in high school, which is significantly shorter, but struggled with it just the same. I guess I can chalk it up to the fact that his style just is not for me. Sigh.