I just bought this book from Amazon. I started reading Autumn of the Patriarch about a week ago. I checked it out from the library and figured I could read it fairly quickly. Ummmmm, no. There are a total of six paragraphs in the whole novel, and not many more sentences. Almost the only punctuation is commas: comma after comma after comma. It’s really interesting, though. I want to read it, but it’ll take a while. So I bought it, and I’ll make myself read a few pages a day. In the meantime, I’m gonna go back to the library and find another book – one that’s more readable.