Jose Maria Navarro

Advantages: A light read that will keep you fully entertained
Disadvantages: Difficult to get into if you haven't read the previous two

...The story of Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney which began with Big Stone Gap and continued with Big Cherry Holler comes to a conclusion here. The characters and plot are as well drawn as ever, and you feel fully involved in their lives. We live with them the full range of human experience and emotion, from first love and the birth of a child through the trials and tribulations of a marriage to the finality of the death of a loved one. All your favourite characters are back - Ave Maria herself and husband Jack MacChesney - still very much in love despite their somewhat frustrating ability to discuss this or any other issue. Also back is their daughter Etta, and much of the book centres around her struggle to deal with the traumas of adolescence and the problems Ave Maria has in parenting her through this. Also back for more are Ave Maria... Read review

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Advantages: With good story.
Disadvantages: none.

...The writer Gabriel Jose Garcia Marquez was born on March 6, 1928. One Hundred Years of Solitude is his great work and most famous novel.Like his other writings, there is some truth and fiction in this tale.One Hundred Years of Solitude is a personal book for the author.Careful readers of this book will recognize many of his experiences in the book. He often claims that first duty of a writer is to write well.This book is combination of his own memories and imagination.As the characters in the novel, In general, children grow up quickly, but when they are adults time abandons them.Time abandons Colonel Aureliano after the civil war, and Jose both of them locked in Melquiades' laboratory, refusing to join the world. In later years when Ursula considers her family time appears to be moving in a circle. Time is moving in a circle... Read review

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Advantages: Wonderful new idea
Disadvantages: the names can be confusing

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