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Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel García Márquez

Start date: August 1, 2014

Finish date: August 30, 2014

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Mar 03, 2008 Laura rated it really liked it

Shelves: latin-american-literature, historical-fiction, 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, nobel-prize, hf-latinamerica

Es un compendio acerca del amor y sus múltiples variantes, un estudio sobre el paso del tiempo que destruye y reconstruye almas y ciudades, sobre la memoria y sus infinitos laberintos. La trama se desarrolla en Centroamérica a principios de siglo, época en la cual, según el narrador, los signos del enamoramiento podían ser confundidos con los síntomas del cólera. Al igual que el caudaloso Magdalena, a cuyas orillas se desarrolla, la historia serpentea y fluye, rítmica y pausada, y prosa abajo va ...more

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Jun 17, 2012 Eileen aka "Lee" rated it it was amazing

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Feb 16, 2012 Linda Rowland rated it it was ok

The first hundred pages I had no idea what was happening.
The next two hundred pages I fought to keep going.
I enjoyed the last forty pages or so.

How do you rate a book like that? The end did not justify the first part.

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Jan 17, 2009 Miranda rated it liked it

Shelves: read-in-2009, 1001-books-before-you-die

I was so ready to give this book 4 or 5 stars, until the ending. I HATED THE ENDING. As much as I enjoyed One Hundred Years of Solitude and as much as I really did enjoy this book most of the way through, it's gonna be a while before I stop being angry at Gabriel Garcia Marquez. ...more

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Feb 16, 2019 Don rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, fiction, made-into-movie, historical-fiction, romance, 2019, bookshelf

An incredible read. Touching on true love as a sickness, an Illness which plagues you for life, life itself, aging, dying, secrets taken to the grave. I am not sure why this sat on my bookshelf for close to 10 years waiting to be read.

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