From this compilation of Amazon.com reviews of classic literature:

I spent several weeks slogging through [Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude] and found it to be very repetitive and tedious in the extreme. Keeping track of the family tree is a constant effort. At best, Marquez reveals an egalitarian attitude that seems to pervade the Americas south of the Rio Grande (no wonder those countries are in constant economic trouble). Marquez should study supply side economics as described by Milton Friedman, another Nobel Prize winner, in order to give his book better balance.

We were prepared to get all Keynesian here, but hey, Friedman's down with legal doobage. No reason you can't incorporate that into your magical realism.

"The book is not that interesting ..." [Charlie's Diary via Boing Boing]