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title: "No One Writes To The Colonel"
type: Book
date: 2022-03-14
rating: 7
author: "Gabriel Garcia Marquez"
genre:
year: 1961
status: Finished
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I really thought this collection had two halves:

1. the self-titled novella, with which the collection opens, which is something like [[One Hundred Years of Solitude]] with the doomed magic stripped away. This is a tour de force, everything from the slow and steady dawning of the world and the Colonel's place in it to the whip-crack ending.  2. the short stories, which were a bit more hit-or-miss and felt like they hit many of the same tonal notes but with less grace and weight as the novella (let alone _One Hundred Years of Solitude_.)

It's a small collection, and you're not going to _regret_ reading the whole thing, but I'd stop after the novella. It's a masterwork (even if it's not exactly what people associate with GGM).