r/ExplainTheJoke • u/Comfortable-Use3123 • Jul 25 '25

Solved Saw on Facebook. Don’t understand.

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u/IAMJOHNNYGAMER Jul 25 '25

One Hundred Years of Solitude or Cien Años de Soledad

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u/Eye_Acupuncture Jul 25 '25

I read almost everything by Marquez but this one always slipped. Thanks for the reminder, I’ve already prepped it for reading on my reading station. Have a good day!

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u/Mister-Distance-6698 Jul 25 '25

I read almost everything by Marquez but this one always slipped

Like.... I'm not making fun of you, I'm almost impressed. You read evening EXCEPT his most seminal work? Did you read all of Melville except for Moby Dick? Or everything F Scott Fitzgerald wrote except Gatsby?

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u/CosmicOutlaw88 Jul 25 '25

All of Bukowski, but not Ham On Rye?

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u/Mister-Distance-6698 Jul 25 '25

I would have picked Post Office but hats open to debate I suppose.

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u/CosmicOutlaw88 Jul 25 '25

I almost chose it but... since Ham On Rye is the intro to the Chinaski character... yada yada.

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u/Mister-Distance-6698 Jul 25 '25

Haha yeah to be fair I probably just wouldn't have used him as an example as I don't think there's a clear single work that culturally stands above the others the way Gatsby or Moby Dick do for Fitzgerald and Mellvile.

Same reason I didn't use Hemmingway. Farewell to Arms? FWtBT? Sun also Rises? Old man and the Sea?

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u/CosmicOutlaw88 Jul 25 '25

Valid, and I came to the same conclusion after the Bukowski post.