Funny you whould mention another one of my all time faves. Cien Aqos de Soledad is amazing as well as the rest of Marquez' work. I also am a big fan of Julio Cortazar who wrote a book called Hopstotch which can be read front to back like any normal book or by following a key in the front of the book and hopping around. Thanks for the memory.
Paz on 1/5/02 7:01 AM, mike pritchard at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paz wrote: >>I'll never forget the premise of bringing ice to the Indians << Paul Theroux in Mosquito Coast9 may not have been the first to discuss this premise. 3Many years later as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember the distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.2 Thus reads one of the most famous opening lines in all literature, Gabriel Garcia Marquez9s One Hundred Years of Solitude9. Gabo9s genius was to make the normal (ice) seem extraordinary while making the paranormal (Remedios the Beauty9s ability to fly) seem totally normal. The world Gabo portrays in this book is wonderful and if Catherine has not read this book, or started one of the many other good recommendations, then this book is one of the treasures of world literature. Read it. mike in Barcelona np Joe Henderson blue bossa9
