Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Don't worry, I'm not reviewing A Chronicle of a Death Foretold. I hate that book too much to want to write more than I'm going to write in this blog post about it. Anyways, this is why I can't stand it....

SPOILER ALERT - DO NOT READ BEYOND THIS POINT IF YOU ACTUALLY ARE ENJOYING THIS BOOK.

1. Vague Wording: “Besides, when he finally learned at that last moment that the Vicario brothers were waiting for him to kill him, his reaction was not one of panic, as has so often been said, but rather the bewilderment of innocence.” (page 101) What am I supposed to make of this quote? It clearly has a lot to do with the finalization of the story. Maybe I'm just overanalysizing it. However, this sentence could have been much clearer.
2. Far Too Compacted: "They'd brought in fans from the bedrooms and some neighboring houses, but there were so many people anxious to see it that they had to push back the furniture and take down the bird cages and pots of ferns, and even then the heat was unbearable." (page 73) That was one sentence. Gabriel Garcia Marquez - do you know what a sentence is?!??!? Take a breather. Honestly. No book should ever give me a headache while reading it. That's too much to read at once.
3. Again, no book should give me a headache while reading it. I would have been perfectly fine reading this book - if it was 200 pages or so. 120 pages is far too short to tell this story. The sad thing is that this book was written by a journalist. Journalists are supposed to be good writers.