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I was given this book as a gift. While I found the writing and storytelling style to be extremely charming (2 stars for that!), I read approximately 75% of the book before throwing it away because the promiscuous sex was unrelenting and, honestly, kind of boring. There was not much character development beyond these affaires.
Obviously the aforementioned sexual activity undermines the character's ostensible "faithfulness." (And I can only imagine the STDs... surely he would have died or been blin ...more
Obviously the aforementioned sexual activity undermines the character's ostensible "faithfulness." (And I can only imagine the STDs... surely he would have died or been blin ...more
Nice satire, it made me laugh out loud a couple of times that books have never made me do. Though halfway through I became bored and wished they would either get together or be forgotten. So it gets old really fast and things become so ridiculous it's not even funny anymore.
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Finally I finished this book. FINALLY! It took me 3-4 years? I did end up restarting it several times. Not only was I super confused by virtually the same character names all over the book, but I was also absolutely repulsed by the main character.. Florentino Ariza. Uh!! He had an affair with a 14 year old girl when he was what -- 80?!!! Ewwww!!!! Yes the writing is beautiful, but for being a magic realism novel, there was virtually none of it in the book. So I am done, putting this book away, a
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This is one of my favorite books. Marquez has such a way with a story and this was a fun book.
Jun 11, 2007
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Jul 19, 2007
erin
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Stephanie Zundel-Smith
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