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Nov 09, 2007 11:52PM

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About Oprah's club, I know it seemed too 'popular' or something, so I ignored it. But Love in the Time of Cholera (read in 1988) is one of my all-time favorites, so I feel less superior to all that now.

Audiences don't like to be confronted with characters who are difficult to like, but Jennifer Connelly's character is wrestling with depression. Depression ain't nuttin' to f*** wit' (as The Wu-Tang Clan might say).
She does mean stuff to people she doesn't understand, but the whole MOVIE is about how people with reasons for doing what they do ignore other peoples' needs and wishes because they don't UNDERSTAND them. Or don't WANT to understand them.
She does mean stuff to people she doesn't understand, but the whole MOVIE is about how people with reasons for doing what they do ignore other peoples' needs and wishes because they don't UNDERSTAND them. Or don't WANT to understand them.
I haven't seen the movie, but I read the book a couple of years ago. I didn't get through it on my first attempt, because it starts really, really slow, but a friend of mine assured me that it would get a lot better about halfway through, so I gave it another shot. It did get a lot better, but it was still a very difficult book because you alternately pitied/disliked all of the characters in turn. Not one of my favorites.