Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?

Re:Ask HN: Books you read in 2018? by bluejay2 on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @08:19AM (#18663591)

1. The Feast of the Goat by Vargas Llosa - fast paced, fictionalized account of the last days of the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic

2. 100 years of solitude - currently 70% through but the writing and story is superb.

3. Death in the Andes — another Vargas Llosa book. Not as good as Feast of the Goat in my opinion, but gives a good idea of the situation in Peru in the 1980s during the Shining Path insurrection, written after the author’s participation in a government investigation of the murder of several journalists in a remote Peruvian village.

EDIT: spelling

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Re:Ask HN: Books you read in 2018? by iamkoby on Sunday December 23, 2018 @05:59AM (#18745469)

100 years is my favorite fiction book of all time...

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Re:Ask HN: Books you read in 2018? by reflectionist on Sunday December 16, 2018 @11:51PM (#18696961)

Llosa is one of my favourite authors and the feast of the goat is amazing. I recommend his Conversation in the Cathedral. And don't miss out on Carlos Fuentes if you're into that region and literature.

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