The General in His Labyrinth

I'm not going to lie, I'm kind of disappointed in the book so far. Granted, I've only read about 20 pages, but they've been quite boring. The plot really hasn't gone anywhere yet...so far it's just mainly descriptions and stories (and very confusing ones at that) about the General (Simon Bolivar). A few minor characters are also introduced, but they are kind of hard to keep track of becuase most of them are named "Field Marshal (so and so)" or "General (so and so)". So far, it doesn't look like many of them will play a very important role of the book. I'm hoping the plot moves along in the next section I read, because this section was pretty boring.

Decent quote/section of the book I liked...

"I have no friends," he said. "And if I do have any left it won't be for long."
That was how the General learned what the whole city already knew: not one but several assassination plots against him were brewing, and his last supporters were in the house to try to thwart them."

The General in His Labyrinth

This is my first post about my outside reading book, The General in His Labyrinth. The book was written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a winner of the Nobel Prize. At first when I looked over the book, I didn't think it was going to be a great book, but after reading a little bit about the author, I'm looking forward to reading the book becuase of the many positive things I've read about the author. Not only has he received the Nobel Prize, but many "literary scholars" consider Marquez to be one of the greatest Latin-American authors of the 20th century! This particular book (The General in His Labyrinth) is about Simon Bolivar, also known as "the Liberator" of five South American countries. I am familiar with the name Simon Bolivar, and have heard small bits of information about him through different history and social studies classes but I'm looking forward to learning more in depth about his lifestyle and what he did. I want to know more of the specifics of his journey. Hopefully I'll learn these through this book I can't wait to get started

Time of the Butterflies Ending

I'm posting at home right now instead of on monday at school because it didn't work on monday at school so this is my post in place of that one...although I felt that the book overall wasn't that bad for a mandatory school book, I wasn't a huge fan of the ending. It was well written by the author, but wasn't very interesting or intense, considering the reader (most readers of this book I should say) knows what happens in the end of the story (three of the girls die). Usually in the ending of most books you either learn something new/something eventful happens (AKA the climax) or the conflict in the story is resolved. I guess the reader learns the circumstances of how the three girls die, but it wasn't very interesting. And that's all I have to say about that.

My first post

this is sweet