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Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel García Márquez

Start date: January 4, 2015

Finish date: January 11, 2015

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Mar 03, 2018 Nikki Johnson rated it it was ok · review of another edition

I'll not dismiss Márquez as a writer, there are some nice passages and description in this book and I've heard good things about One Hundred Years of Solitude so I'll definitely try him again, but...

This overly descriptive meandering novel about love (but not really? I mean, there's the main dude who says he loves the main gal but won't actually do anything about it for ages? Then the main gal gets with a secondary character dude and neither one of them love each other either), this novel about ...more

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Jun 21, 2013 Kingfan30 rated it liked it · review of another edition

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I'm not sure what to make of this book. I found that the names of the main two characters confusing at times, I thought I was reading about one of them when actually it was the other. I found Florentino quite disturbing. At the start of the book, was he writing love letters or was he just a bit of a stalker? As the story carries on he claims he's still in love with Fermina and would wait for her, but seemed to have many lovers. He was asked to be a guardian of a young girl and ended up sleeping ...more

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