Love in the Time of Cholera in Crazy Challenge Connection

Feb 10, 2019 Jess Penhallow rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 19th-century, 1930s, 1920s, 1910s, colombia, library-book, south-america

My first 5 star book of the year. Everything about this was just beautiful.

Going in I knew very little about this story other than its status as a modern classic. The title and cover led me to believe that it would be a weep-fest but what I got was something completely different. There was so much humour and joy in the mundane details of everyday life and love. When an author can make a married couple's argument about soap into something wonderful you know that they are special.

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Nov 19, 2022 Tina rated it it was ok · review of another edition

I guess Gabriel Garcia Marquez isn't the right author for me... ...more

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Jun 30, 2020 punxsygal rated it liked it

Shelves: classic-literature

It is really hard to know what to say. The writing is beautiful. There are many insights into a marriage. But the object of Florentino Ariza's love, Fermina Daza, is the most unlikeable character I have encountered in a long time. Personally, I think Florentino was more in love with the idea of love with her, than with the actual woman. And he lived his life in a rather creepy way over the 50 plus years of waiting. That said, I am glad I read the book and some of it will stick with me for a long ...more

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Feb 28, 2015 Ed Lehman rated it really liked it

Shelves: 1001-list, 2015-reading-challenge-books, latin-south-america, completed-1001-list-book, owned-read, owned-hardcopy, owned-latin-am-shelf

Garcia Marquez explores love's many permutations in this novel and at times, one wants to scream at the characters to "Snap out of it!" as Cher might say. Teenage Florentina Ariza falls in love with Fermina Daza from afar. They exchange furtive letters. Fermina's father discovers the "affair" and interferes. She eventually meets and marries (with prodding from her father) Dr. Juvenal Urbino. But Ariza's love never dies...never. The novel begins with Dr. Urbino's death... and then the questions b ...more

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