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    <body><![CDATA[I feel suspicious about the fact that I didn't fall for this book the way Florentino Ariza fell for Fermina Daza. I am compelled to blame my lack of appreciation on poor reader comprehension rather than GGM'S writing, because only one of us won the nobel prize and I'm pretty sure it wasn't me. Howev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11912063">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I previously read &quot;One Hundred Years of Solitude&quot; and I liked it a lot, and I was intruiged by the title &quot;Love in the Time of Cholera&quot; so I thought I'd read it.<br/><br/>Within the first few pages I had the inkling I didn't like it, but sometimes it takes books a little while t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2177586">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't like this book.<br/><br/>I don't like the characters. (This was going to be a list, but then I realized that this is the only reason I have.)<br/><br/>Florentino Ariza is a baby. Seriously, his mom gives him whatever he wants, and she tries to make everything all right for him, and he is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18348976">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a GGM fan and as such, I am utterly incapable of approaching one of his books with objectivity. One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of my all time favorites and I did not expect to enjoy Love in the Time of Cholera as much as that book - probably because of all the hype it's received on it's 20...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4702518">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An unrequited love story. It is the story of a woman pursued from the first buds of puberty to the sour smell of old age by one man. For fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights he does nothing but obsess over the woman. She accepted his love as a young girl but only from a distanc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2055767">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[First and foremost, I should point out that I did enjoy reading this book. It was well-written, interesting, and original.<br/><br/>With that said, I didn't really enjoy the story. The characters go on and on about love, and Florentino Ariza is supposedly this great poet who writes such wonderful ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10039121">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez because of John Cusack. It’s no secret that I have a weakness for the man. Between him and Gilbert Blythe, I’m likely to remain single for my entire life, because I’ll be searching for the combination of the two of them for eternity....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5232563">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My tongue was left wagging on the floor after this one.  I read it in three weekend train rides to and from Chicago (note: I live near St. Louis) and savored and cherished every moment in this novel.  It all rang so true, the terror and beauty and longing of love.  I think it has automatically been ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1218604">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In a word: disappointing.  LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA is held up as a Classic Love Story for the Timeless Ages.  I was prepared to be Swept Away By A Passionate Tale.  Instead, I plodded through it - on the Metro, on the beach, on my lunch break, waiting for the moment when it would All Be Worth It...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14219792">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I learned that I will never be a great writer, because sometimes, there are people like Marquez, who manage to write such an amazing piece of art without making it ponderous, pretentious, or difficult. <br/><br/>It's not really about the plot, is it?  A guy is in love with a girl, and waits for he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2397708">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not going to lie; I read this book (and, before it, 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being') because they were the books referenced in the movie version of 'High Fidelity' that Rob used to point out that he wasn't dumb, because he understood them (they're about girls, right?).<br/><br/>And now tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10570462">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[GGM is an amazing writer, his prose is fluid and draws you in. I wish my Spanish was still good enough to read this in the original, rather than the translation. <br/><br/>Unlike many of the people that disliked the book, I had no problems with Florentino sleeping around. His promiscuity was no is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25949688">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[2.3 Stars<br/><br/>I can't remember the last time I paid full price for a work of fiction, what with ebay and libraries and thrift stores.  <br/><br/>I was thirsty for this book, had to get my hands on it.  I had caught a brief review of the movie in the paper, and thought &quot;man waits 50 yea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18246166">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i have to say something about this book: i tried reading this thing three times, and the farthest i got was about halfway through. why? it pissed me off beyond belief. this is romance at its most frustrating. why do all these epic, sweeping love stories involve loving someone from afar? haven't we m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8506871">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Set in an unnamed Caribbean seaport, Garcia Marquez's extraordinary Love in the Time of Cholera (1988) relates one of literature's most remarkable stories of unrequited love. &quot;This shining and heartbreaking novel,&quot; Thomas Pynchon wrote in The New York Times Book Review, is one of those few rare works &quot;that can even return our worn souls to us.&quot; Mary Wesley on  Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: &quot;This is the funniest, most moving book I have read and re-read.  Each reading discovers fresh delights, a true classic.  Garcia Marquez is the greatest South American writer who doesn't hesitate to write of the spiritual and mundane in the same paragraph.&quot;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[In short, I loved this book.  While primarily about love and all of the near infinite permutations that can be called love, this book is also a love story to an era that has since disappeared.  A nostalgic look at a Colombia of fairy tales that carries with it not a little bit of wistfulness.  A fri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34757847">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book contains the most single lines in one work that I wish to lift from their pages and paste around my house so that I may bask in their glory on a daily basis.<br/><br/>Reading other reviews of this text always puzzles me. No, I don't need everyone to love what I love to the extent that I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24270359">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Love in the Time of Cholera</em> is not a simple love story. To read it as such would be a disservice to the book's exploration of love as an infinitely complex emotion; as an emotion that can both contradict and embrace itself within the same heartbeat. Without favoring any expression, Gabriel García M...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17221322">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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