Greetings, all, and thanks to remembrance for inviting me here. This is my first time hosting KTK.
I had something prepared that was full of sweetness and light, when I learned that Gabriel Garcia Marquez had walked on. That threw me into a funk. I'm not a great consumer of his work -- I've only read a few of his short stories. My husband and daughter have read him extensively, though. Mr. rb137 waxes on exaltingly about him, but my daughter once said, "My personal beef with One Hundred Years of Solitude is that it should not take over 500 pages for me to learn that everything is cyclical just so I am prepared for the MA exam."
There is a wide range of opinion in my family on everything.
I think Gabriel Garcia Marquez's life was important for another reason, and it has everything to do with what is happening in America today.