One Hundred Years of Solitude/Fridge

Fridge Brilliance

 * iamdatroper read One Hundred Years of Solitude and, while she could see the reason people liked it, and its postmodern quality, she was still like, "OK, it's good, but I still wouldn't call it one of the best books I've ever read." Then she read this review on Amazon, by Amanda M. Hayes, which states that the reason the book is insane like that is 'cause the entire Buendía family is the protagonist, and she was all, "OMG IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW".
 * Family novels weren't a rarity even in the realism.
 * When I read the book, I was barely 12, and the insomnia plague, for me, was just a strange disease. However, several years after, knew about Alzheimer... and then, this article about semantic dementia. Made more sense since that.
 * This novel gets either more sense if you know about other books of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, or makes his other books have more sense. One event mentioned in the passing in the book, the very lavish funeral of Mama Grande, the madame of one of the brothels of Macondo, is both the title of both a short story and the book containing it. The short story shows that the woman was so influential and the event was so big that no one could have ignored it, but points that the Buendía family has very little to have with the deceased. Another book have a short story about a very old Rebeca de Buendía still refusing to sell her house, pointing reasons that are only understandable if you know her novel's backstory.