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One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)

40 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006

A book for all people.
One Hundred Years of Solitude is said to be a work so wonderful, It should be required reading for the entire human race, and I must say I completely agree. The novel follows the progression of the Buenida family and Macondo, the town that grows along with the people in it. As I read I felt as if I was with the family and was experiencing the same things the town was going through. Garcia ...

The Labyrinth of Solitude: The Other Mexico, Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude, Mexico and the United ...

14 reviews
Octavio Paz

Grove Press, 1994

Magisterial, profound and provocative
Like all great books, Paz' exploration of the Mexican soul begins with concrete historical and cultural detail and exfoliates into something complex, profound and ultimately moving. Paz sets his book at the junction where historical experience, ritual, myth, the Mexican sense of interior solitude, Mexico's European, Maya and Aztec roots, and its incredible legacy of art and writing intersect. ...

Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence

10 reviews
Ruth Haley Barton, R. Ruth Barton

InterVarsity Press, 2004

Deepen Your Relationship with God
A good primer for going deeper with God, with practical suggestions for how to spend time in silence before Him. Grounded and yet inspiring.

The Slaves of Solitude (New York Review Books Classics)

5 reviews
Patrick Hamilton

NYRB Classics, 2007

Tempest in a Tearoom
The most atypical of Patrick Hamilton's novels (and perhaps the most beloved), THE SLAVES OF SOLITUDE takes place in a suburban boarding house in 1943 where the heroine Miss Roach--intelligent, lonely, and on the cusp of middle age--has moved to escape the dangers of the Blitz. Commuting from the publishing house where she reads manucsripts in London, she spends her nights wandering the deserted ...

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)

244 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Harper Perennial, 2004

Reminds Me of America's Keenest City, by Mongo
This is a marvelous book that remind's me in both style and message of America's Keenest City, by Mongo. I would recommend that if you like Marquez, you should read Mongo also. Both books use surrealism to expose political and cultural phenomena. Marquez enlightens us about Latin America and Mongo about North America.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

440 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

HarperCollins, 2003

Solitude is Life
There has been renewed interest in the work of the Nobel Prize winning Columbian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The keystone of his work is "One Hundred Years of Solitude" originally published in 1967. A reissue edition of the novel published in 2003 by Harper Collins and translated by Gregory Rabassa tells the story of several generations of residents of the fictional town "Macondo." Like ...

Thoughts In Solitude

25 reviews
Thomas Merton

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999

Reflections in a Life of Solitude
Perhaps meant more as his inner reminders of purpose than for the general public, Merton's "Thoughts in Solitude" show him to be reminding himself of his mission. As is implied in the title, this book discusses Merton's thoughts about the solitary life as he journeys though that life. Told in chapters that average 2-3 pages long, these passages are easy to digest for the average reader. ...

One Hundred Years of Solitude

4 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006

Creative Mastery
I truly cannot remember the last time I have read something so imaginitive and insightful. While this book is sure to make you laugh, the wisdom imparted through hysterical and fantastic happenings is almost chilling at times. This book reminds me of Voltaire's "Candide," in that it takes a satirical tone towards the human race. A piece of advice: Definitely read this book at a time when you ...

The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage

85 reviews
Cathi Hanauer

Harper Paperbacks, 2003

Loved this book
Finally a book that really tells what REAL women think, feel, etc. It was a huge revelation to me that other women had the same feelings of insecurity, infidelity, etc. nice to know I'm not alone. I'd recommend this book to anyone.

The Fortress of Solitude

103 reviews
Jonathan Lethem

Vintage, 2004

Play that funky music, white boy
What is it like to grow up a white child in a black world, "yoked" in a double-bind that keeps you small and paralyzed? It's not something you can talk about, and I never saw anyone so astutely describe the experience until I read this book. Lethem's semi-autobiographical novel reveals itself gradually, like a multi-layered painting. During his early childhood, the protagonist lurches ...

The Solitudes (The Aegypt Cycle)

5 reviews
John Crowley

Overlook TP, 2007

Aegypt Restored
This volume is absolutely wonderful. It is almost ridiculously fun, informative, exhilarating. Parts of it (I'm thinking especially of Pierce's flashbacks to life in New York, scattered across the first half) seem to me to be as good as--or even better than--anything in John Crowley's transcendent 1981 masterpiece, Little, Big. The series centers on the Platonic/Gnostic notion that we're ...

Journal of a Solitude

11 reviews
May Sarton

W. W. Norton & Company, 1992

Excellent!
If you're into reading memoirs, this is exceptional. Her clarity of thought and her ability to portray her feelings into words is unsurpassed, in my opinion. I enjoy her prose so very much. I can find myself relating to so many of her feelings and thoughts despite the difference of age and time. This is a great read.

Poustinia: Encountering God in Silence, Solitude and Prayer (Madonna House Classics)

2 reviews
Catherine De Hueck Doherty

Madonna House Pubns, 2000

Once in a lifetime...
Catherine Doherty's book, 'Poustinia', is one of those one-in-a-million books which will change the way you look at life. This book has had a profound influnce on me -- my life as a Catholic Christian has blossomed, and my relationship with God has been profoundly deepened. I heartily recommend this book to all who seek peace.

Too Loud a Solitude

27 reviews
Bohumil Hrabal

Harvest Books, 1992

Regressus ad originem
The main character in this book compacts waste paper and banished books before they are burned. For him, it is a hell of a job, because he considers that books are 'human beings' and that burning books equals the Auschwitz crematorium. 'Heaven is not humane', but at least he tries to be humane by saving the most valuable books. But even the 'battle of the rat clans' (class struggle) cannot ...

Solitude: A Return to the Self

17 reviews
Anthony Storr

Free Press, 2005

This book will change your life
I have always been a solitary man, someone who likes to be alone, reading and writing, and who prefers solitude becasue I thrive in it. I've never had a ton of friends, and still don't, though I always had a few close ones. Some people say there is "something wrong" with me and that I need to get out more and be more social. Thing is, I don't find that satisfying. I find more satisfaction in ...

One Hundred Days of Solitude: Losing Myself and Finding Grace on a Zen Retreat

6 reviews
Jane Dobisz

Wisdom Publications, 2007

Inspiring
Zen student, Jane Dobisz decides to deepen her practice by spending one hundred days in solitude in a tiny 150 square foot cabin in the deep woods during a New England winter. She takes along the most basic of items -an ax, barley tea, rice, miso, beans, and one hundred pieces of dried fruit, one piece for each day of her retreat. The cabin is heated with a wood stove and has no plumbing or ...

Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life

10 reviews
Henri J. M. Nouwen

Ave Maria Press, 2004

Great read, information is valuable in all aspects of life.
This was a very informative and a very simple read. In a nutshell, it defines how important solitude is in terms of how we can't get caught up impressing life judges. Also, "It teaches us", not to become restless of our actions for our only way of aquiring self pride. Henri also shows people how to be glad by applying the example of jesus to your life. Also, to deal with the challenges which God ...

A Quiet Place

3 reviews
Douglas Wood

Aladdin, 2005

A wonderful book!
A Quiet Place is a wonderful book to help kids realize that it is good for them to be quiet and think. With all the noise they experience during the day and their constant activities (including music, television, computers, electronic toys, etc.), it is so important for them to be able to think in quiet and daydream. This book gives wonderful examples of the different places a boy goes in his ...

Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics)

7 reviews
Daniel Defoe

Penguin Classics, 2003

You all know the story...
but the key point here is that you will get an authoritative text, an interesting introduction, and a well-bound book for under ten bucks. Amazon can get it used for you for even less. I teach an English literature course and I know how much my students are fleeced on certain "Anthologies". Instead, I have them buy individual paperbacks like this one. And they appreciate the savings. This ...

Intimacy and Solitude

8 reviews
Stephanie Dowrick

W. W. Norton & Company, 1996

Intimacy and Solitude
I cannot recommend this book enough. I have been going through a highly introspective, difficult and insightful stage in life the past year. I have been through lots of individual counseling and read countless self-help books. I rate this one higher than any other. Dowricks' work on the theme of "differentiation" and how it affects you in your relationship with yourself and others gets at ...

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