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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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Nov 29, 2013 Sorento62 rated it liked it

I think this is a good book, but it's not really all that fun to read. Starts out as a real slog. Somewhat sloggy in the middle. Almost not a slog any more toward the end. I'm glad to have read it, even though the experience was not all that enjoyable.

Garcia Marquez definitely creates a world. And he writes with exceptional insight into many different kinds of love/sex and other bodily happenings. But there's not a lot of suspense and not a lot of sensory information. It's all very heady. More t ...more

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Aug 23, 2011 Hodan A rated it it was amazing

I loved this book and it made me want to believe in love(nah!). The best of Gabriel Garcia-this tale of heartbreak,lose and love is classic. The story is as hot as the Caribbean climate and it reminds me of an old Arabic poetic verse that translates roughly to (what is love but to the first lover) which is true, we all remember the first person that knocked on doors of our hearts whether in adolescence or later on in college .
The main character Fermina Daza is the love interest of Florentino Ar ...more

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Feb 12, 2012 Prashant Mudgal rated it did not like it

350 pages of torture.Everything is so slow and the author has stretched all the events to the threshold of patience testing limits.Promiscuity is keyword in this setting.

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Feb 03, 2022 Trevor Kidd rated it it was amazing

I think if you simply read this as a love story it's overly sentimental, but I think it's more complicated than that. I think we're meant to form our own opinions of the characters and their actions outside of what the third person narrative tells us. Then we get portraits of people who lived complicated romantic lives well into old age. The central question: whether extreme passion in love is beneficial or harmful, has no unambiguous answer here but it's exploration is lovely. ...more

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