Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez

I don't remember how Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez made it onto my "to read" list of books, but it was a mistake.  I think I happened to see it on a high school reading list and was not familiar with it.  I didn't know it to be "one of the classics."  So, I thought I'd check it out.  I just didn't get it.  It's about a guy who gets murdered, and everyone in the town knew he was going to be murdered.  However, no one did anything to stop it for various reasons.  It's not told in a gripping way despite the subject matter.  The characters are not developed in a way for the reader to feel any connection to them.  I was mostly bored reading this book.  I didn't even have any desire to delve into any kind of deeper meaning to the book.  It just felt pointless and boring.  Unless you are given this book as an assignment by someone, I wouldn't recommend it.  Maybe there's someone out there that could enlighten me as to it's purpose, but at this point, I give it 1 out of 5 stars.