"One Hundred Years of Solitude": A masterpiece worthy of reading by all mankind, why so many people can't read it?

Actually, it’s not that I can’t stand it, it’s mainly that I really can’t understand it.

The first time I heard about this book was when I was in high school. At that time, my deskmate liked this book. He is the kind of person who can calm down and read a book for a long time. In addition, boys are naturally more sensitive to novels with this theme, so he always found this novel more interesting.

But to me, it didn’t seem like this. At that time, girls generally liked some books by Guo Xiaosi and Han Han. I vividly remember that when I lived in the dormitory, everyone often stayed up late reading "One Hundred Years of Solitude", but the books they read were all of this type.

After the summer vacation, because the vacation time is really long, and because of the enthusiastic recommendation of my deskmate, I decided to go to the bookstore to read this book. I remember that when I went to the bookstore, I searched for it for a long time. Because this book was relatively thick and not particularly popular among readers, it was placed on the top of the bookshelf.

Maybe after about ten pages, I couldn’t stand it anymore. Firstly, in foreign novels, the protagonist’s name is relatively long, and it is easy for people to forget the beginning after reading it. Second, I have to admit that this storyline did not attract me from the beginning. I always felt that I was not interested in reading any more, so I just flipped through it.

Although I later bought this book, it always stayed in the corner of my home. I couldn't understand it when I was young, and when I get older, I have no urge to read it. Including some other famous foreign novels, I actually haven’t read too many of them.

I always feel that compared to domestic masterpieces, famous foreign novels are always harder for me to understand. However, perhaps it is precisely because most people cannot understand it that it has become a famous book.