I love Garcia Marquez's fiction and was looking forward to reading the first installment of his autobiography. But I couldn't finish it, and I certainly won't be bothering with the next two.While there are some intriguing parts, overall this book was deadly boring and extremely hard to follow. It reminded me of someone giving a speech after accepting a lifetime achievement award: "And I'd like to thank Fred and George and Jim and Bob and a whole bunch of other people you don't care about..."I managed to plod through about two-thirds of it before I stopped punishing myself and put it aside. Unless you're a love-blinded fan who's going to adore anything he writes, don't waste your time and money.