“Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo. Macondo era entonces una aldea de 20 casas de barro y cañabrava construidas a la orilla de un río de aguas diáfanas que se precipitaban por un lecho de piedras pulidas, blancas y enormes como huevos prehistóricos. El mundo era tan reciente, que muchas cosas carecían de nombre, y para mencionarlas había que señalarlas con el dedo".”   ☘      Opinião em Português      ☘   One Hundred Years of Solitude always intimidate me for the fact that everyone told me to read it in the right time, and mightn’t even be able to read it at first but only at the second or third try. I’ve read it once, and I would read it all over again. My advice, before you enter the world of Macondo the Buendía family, is to keep an open mind and drop everything you know as possible, real or defined by our s...

“Young man," he said, "understand this: there are two Londons. There's London Above―that's where you lived―and then there's London Below―the Underside―inhabited by the people who fell through the cracks in the world. Now you're one of them. Good night.”   ☘      Opinião em Português      ☘   Well, what a ride. I loved Neil Gaiman’s writing and I tried to find a way to describe it and I found it extremely hard. Gaiman wrote this book after the TV show Neverwhere premiered in 1996. I start by saying that the whole book has a dark but cosy vibe. Gaiman is contradictory in that way – makes us feel comfortable in a dark world. Richard Mayhew has a normal good life – a fiancée and a good job. One night, he finds a girl – Door - wounded in the pavement. He helps her and after she lefts, Richard sees himself in London Below because of that aid. We discover London Bellow at the same time Richard does. London Bellow is subterranean is a part of London ...