false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166052341m/9712.jpg 9712 103 In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermino Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.<br><br>With humorous sagacity and consummate craft, García Márquez traces an exceptional half-century story of unrequited love. Though it seems never to be conveniently contained, love flows through the novel in many wonderful guises--joyful, melancholy, enriching, ever surprising. 3285349 book 1985 Love in the Time of Cholera total:47137|5:15656|4:15711|3:9670|2:4039|1:2088| 47137 180195 71159 5538 3 40 false true Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 07 15:47:06 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 07 17:02:25 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 26 false true Fri Mar 21 20:08:57 -0700 2008 Sat May 09 23:08:02 -0700 2009
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.)

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...more...]]> 2 22 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 20 14:03:18 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 05 08:08:04 -0700 2007
Within the first few pages I had the inkling I didn't like it, but sometimes it takes books a little while t...more...]]> 5 14 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Aug 17 12:10:08 -0700 2007 Tue Apr 15 14:04:11 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 10 false true Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 06 10:14:10 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 06 10:14:27 -0800 2007
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 ...more...]]> 1 8 false true Wed May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 28 11:12:18 -0700 2007 Wed May 14 08:46:26 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 13 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Sun Jun 17 11:26:10 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 17 13:06:34 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 8 false true Thu Jan 31 18:11:55 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 16 13:37:24 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 8 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue May 15 00:12:47 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 25 22:57:41 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 7 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Dec 17 11:59:08 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 22 14:26:45 -0800 2007
And now tha...more...]]> 2 7 true false Mon Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 30 15:00:46 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 19:24:27 -0700 2008
Unlike many of the people that disliked the book, I had no problems with Florentino sleeping around. His promiscuity was no is...more...]]> 2 4 false true Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 20 19:26:43 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 18:21:41 -0700 2008
I can't remember the last time I paid full price for a work of fiction, what with ebay and libraries and thrift stores.

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 "man waits 50 yea...more...]]> 1 6 false false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed Oct 31 22:27:29 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 31 22:44:50 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 4 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun May 13 18:25:49 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 10 11:25:39 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 4 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Mar 22 11:21:03 -0700 2007 Wed Jan 23 21:55:55 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 6 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 26 08:21:47 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 26 08:26:20 -0700 2007
It's not really about the plot, is it? A guy is in love with a girl, and waits for he...more...]]> 1 5 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 17 15:18:51 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 01 10:16:55 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 3 false false Sat Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 07 14:43:19 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 18 12:22:05 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 5 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 11 15:49:58 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 04 17:24:58 -0700 2008
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 ...more...]]> 5 3 false false Fri Mar 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 07 05:41:53 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 15 09:15:13 -0700 2008 Love in the Time of Cholera 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...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=9712