Books like Los funerales de la Mamá Grande

My rating got me feeling very unpatriotic. Garcia Marquez' writing is beautiful. His sentences are just right, and sound magical when read aloud. But plot wise -- this anthology was a bore. It was like reading your school rival's journal and realizing there were no dark secrets. One story was only 6 pages long, and yet he decided to give it a long introduction. En este pueblo no hay ladrones was the only one that contained a beginning, climax, and conclusion. The MC decides to steal billiard balls one night (just like that) and sell them to another bar and so forth. But after realizing that the men in the village are affected by their lack of play, he decides to return them unaware of the consequences (please note that this story shows violence against pregnant women. Worse she starts the physical fight).