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Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel García Márquez

Start date: May 1, 2019

Finish date: May 30, 2019

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Why we're reading this: May is Ageism. Our book is Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
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Jul 28, 2020 Jaclyn~she lives! catching up on reviews~ rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: genre-classics, genre-magical-realism, 1800, translation, country-colombia, latin-america, prose-rich

What it is: Vices disguised as virtues. Dark, evocative prose glorifying despicable behaviors.
What it isn't: a love story

It's obsession to destruction ...more

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May 26, 2014 Rebecca Robinson rated it it was amazing

I loved this book. beautiful, vibrant and real characters. a must read for romantics.

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Sep 04, 2017 Samantha rated it it was ok

First I tried to read the book in Spanish in Colombia. I thought it would help me understand the country's most famous author and their past once. I couldn't do it; to be honest, it was just made me fall asleep every time I tried to read. I switched English and I spent almost a month trying to get through this book. It's not a love story. It's a painful story and one that is so antiquated that it couldn't really speak to me in any way. ...more

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