I don't understand how this is classified as a "classic." I had to force myself to finish it, as I had long since stopped caring about what happened. Our basic plot: 
 1. Introduce character. 
 2. He/She procreates. 
 3. He/She dies. 
 And I felt absolutely no remorse for anyone's death, including the characters I thought I liked, because there was no reason to care about anyone's death. It was "life happened and people died," with absolutely no emtional connection to anyone or care as to what happened to them. And with everyone being named after everyone else, I couldn't keep track of which Arcadio/Aureliano/etc I was reading about, let alone how they're related. 
 Perhaps I'll reflect upon it in the future and decide it wasn't as bad as I thought, but there would be no way I could sit through another reading of it.