Love in the Time of Cholera

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Summary: Absolutely my favorite book of all time
Review: I read this book on a hiking trip through the Appalachian Trail in New Hampshire this past summer. For those who have read it, not really the right atmosphere to read a book of such grace, mysticism and passion. On the contrary, I found myself able to entrance myself into the storyline and the language (brilliantly translated), because there were no modern day distractions out in the wilderness. I loved One Hundred Years of Solitude, but at times, found it too far reaching, spanning too much time for one novel. Granted, some feel that is the overwhelming universiality of the epic novel. Love in the time of Cholera grabs the reader, although with a slow start. You can't help but feel the emotional agony felt by the main character as he watches another man grow old with his true love. As Fermina Daza grows old, she maintains her independence, but the reader can tell something is missing from her life, and she simply flows with the motions of life, without truly living. This is truly one story that I did not wish to end. The adventures, the language, the ultimate theme of true love overcoming all obstacles; including age, multiple sexual partners, separate lives, marriage, and finally death, leaves the reader with a satisfied feeling. I highly recommend this, and constantly do, to all those who enjoy great storytelling, graceful styles of writing, and overall great literature.

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Summary: Love in the Time of Cholera
Review: Love in the Time of Cholera written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a truly marvelous love story. As you read the book you'll find that you are effectively drawn into the steamy backwater of coastal Columbia a century ago, with all of the sensual stimula of unrequited love.

The author's powerful descriptive narrative quickly transforms the scene as the reader will feel a master storyteller totally engrossing. The story is about a love between a man and a woman, a love so strong that after being rejected early on in life carries on to later life... yes, fifty-one years later the love is rekindled. Truly making this story one of shear beauty.

Not only this, but the author makes this story unbearably touching, your heart will be taken away by the power of this love story. If you haven't read any of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's books, this is where to start as compelling as this story is... the true nature of this story bursts with the magic of ordinary life told with a rich human flair.

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Summary: LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA
Review: "LOVE IN TIME OF CHOLERA"
By Gabriel García Márquez

Can we defined what it is love? How many kinds of love there are? When we know we
are in love, Can we know it? When we know is just something transitory? How we know
this is the right person to marry? These are some of the themes that Gabriel García
Márquez portrays in this interesting novel.

This book shows that love is not always perfect and the illness of cholera are the same
that the illness of love. This novel shows us that love can come unexpected and the same
time can change very quickly. Love is not constant and sometimes changes people's live.
Love can do powerful things and this is reflected in Florentino Ariza who loved Fermina
Daza for more that fifty years.

This novel shows the large definition of love and one kind of love that we see is the love
between Fermina Daza and her husband, Dr, Urbino. At first neither of them are in love
but with time they begin to love each other "he was aware that he did not love her"(159)
" but as she kissed him for the first time he was sur e there would be no obstacle to their
inventing true love". (159) With the passing of the years, when they were old, the love
changed to a more mature defition of love.

This is an awesome book with unexpected ending. I recommend this novel and after you
read it is going to change the way you see love.

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Summary: Unique but True...
Review: A great classic book to read and keep. Marquez makes you live every second of the book, shows you how life takes the most unusual paths, but no matter how much time passes by, and what people go through, some people never change. They just keep on trying to improve themselves all the time, and tackle life from every direction just to try to make their dreams come true.

The selection of words, the progress of events, the describing of emotions is just so incredible, everything has been selected to take your maxiumum attention, and it really does...

"Fermina, I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love." Thus does Florentino Ariza lay bare his heart to Fermina Daza after - by the former's exact count - 51 years, 9 months, and 4 days of yearning.

Demonstrates the relationship between people, what does the travelling add to people, and why do we have the tendency to run away from things sometimes...

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Summary: "Forever"
Review: This is a book that simply cannot to be ignored. Lush, sensual and poetic in its prose, Marquez spins a vivid tale about a man's love for a woman that waits fifty years to come to fruition. Beneath the imagery and romance, however, lies Marquez's sharp observations on the nature of relationships, marriage and old age -- all told with Marquez's brand of humor, wisdom and unflinching veracity.
The imagery pops alive in the mind's eye like no film can. In a tropical Caribbean setting, sometime between the close of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, the environment becomes just as much a character as Florentino Ariza, and the dramatic story unfolds of his love for Fermina Daza. I'd love to recommend this for mature teens, but to truly savor it, you'll have to have lived a little. In the end, no matter what age, you will be the better for having read this masterpiece!

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Summary: love in any language
Review: many people have tried to define love with words, as did florentino ariza. he wrote, read, ate, slept words. but like so many others, he discovered that love cannot be contained. it flows through our actions, through our lives, sometimes enriching, sometimes destroying. but in the end, it is what it is, in any era, at any age.

and like the characters, gabriel garcia marquez uses little dialog, instead, letting the story tell itself. often, i've read novels where the characters speak so much and so often that it leaves little room for emotion.

fermina daza is a strong woman who would be admired in any society. and like many strong woman, many may mistake her for unfeeling. but as you get to know her through garcia, you realize that she is as lost as anyone when it comes to love. it is only at the end of her journey that she realizes she has already arrived at her destination.

this translation moved me like few love stories have. i admit it did take a few tries for me to become absorbed but once i got started, i couldn't put it down. i only wish i could read it in its original form.

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Summary: Magical and Real
Review: In his youth, Florentino Azira was rejected by Fermina Daza at the end of a correspondence-driven affair. While she endures a marriage with a higher-class doctor, Azira continues to be faithful to Fermina, in his whimsically stubborn way that only Garcia Marquez could imagine.

While Marquez's other well-known novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, is well-known for its characters who float into the air, or grow pig's tails, this book stands in decided contrast. The unbelievable happens not in the physical realm, but psychological. Here, a man has hundreds of lovers and yet remains loyal to one old, married woman. We don't ask for the psychiatrist's explanation, just like we didn't ask a scientist to explain 100 Years of Solitude. Instead, we believe and want to believe.

The details are lyrically described, different characters wind subplots around the single-minded Azira. The dialogue occurs in pithy lines scattered throughout, almost like inter-titles in old movies. Marquez doesn't move the mouths of his characters, he moves much larger forces. He moves ships, brings plagues, and stretches love over lifespans.

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Summary: LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA
Review: "LOVE IN TIME OF CHOLERA"
By Gabriel García Márquez

Can we defined what it is love? How many kinds of love there are? When we know we
are in love, Can we know it? When we know is just something transitory? How we know
this is the right person to marry? These are some of the themes that Gabriel García
Márquez portrays in this interesting novel.

This book shows that love is not always perfect and the illness of cholera are the same
that the illness of love. This novel shows us that love can come unexpected and the same
time can change very quickly. Love is not constant and sometimes changes people's live.
Love can do powerful things and this is reflected in Florentino Ariza who loved Fermina
Daza for more that fifty years.

This novel shows the large definition of love and one kind of love that we see is the love
between Fermina Daza and her husband, Dr, Urbino. At first neither of them are in love
but with time they begin to love each other "he was aware that he did not love her"(159)
" but as she kissed him for the first time he was sur e there would be no obstacle to their
inventing true love". (159) With the passing of the years, when they were old, the love
changed to a more mature defition of love.

This is an awesome book with unexpected ending. I recommend this novel and after you
read it is going to change the way you see love.

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Summary: love in the time of cholera! great read!
Review: Love in the time of Cholera

Gloria Fernandez

People may think of love and automatically think about the people who are close to them such as their family or they may also think about their soul mates. This is not wrong in today's society. This is what most people think about when talking about love, and this is the way they are raised to think. If you look up "love" in the dictionray the most common works used to discribe love are "deep affection" or "warm feellings". However, Love in the time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez gives us a different view on what love is. There is love for all ages, there is love for the young who is inexperience and fall foolishly in love; and then ther is the love for the old that is mature, and true. "Love in the time of cholera portrays love from the first to the one and only love.

How dramatic that the book starts with a suicide! Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a very descriptive writer to the point that he makes you feel as if you are there. You could smell the stench and see the twisted anf stiff dead body. You then wonder why this man committed suicide. Did he do it for love and if so why? To make things more dramatic, Marquez adds another death! A death that is unexpected and surprising. Which leaves a widow. However out of this death came out a declaration of love, a love that is declared to the widow that is grieving for her husband's death.

Who is this guy and is he crazy for waiting for a man to die to take his wife? Now my question is how long can a person love somebody for so long with out response? Florentino the man that declare his love to the widow has loved her for fifty-one years, nine months, and four days. It is too many years for me to love someone with out receiving the same affection. Can true love last so long? Is Florentino just obsessed over Fermina or is she some kind of fantasy or illusion.

Florentino is a very unique character. He never left his town, causing his to never grow into the person he could have been. Staying home and seeing his love being married to someone else, seeing how she develops as a mother and wife from afar. Just waiting and wishing for her husband to die to take his righfully place along side his love. Living in a life that you love but not being loved back is the world that Florentino is living and is destroying a way, but its also a keeping his alive.

In the time and place where the book takes place, is a time where certain things were forbidden. However they may have been forbidden but they are still done. To the late night visits that Florentino took to visit the widows, to Fermina hiding note from her father that Florentino has written.

"Love in the time of cholera" is a book that embraces loves and transforms it in to something beautiful. However love is not all for it is accompanied by death and pain, they all come together to. Marquez does a beautiful job in connecting them all together, he goes beyong describing them and bringing them together he brings the to life.

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Summary: Love in the Time of Cholera
Review: Love, death, sex, sorrow, and illusion are the major components of this great novel. By reading the title, one might think: what in the world does love have to do with cholera? Sometimes, we love someone so much that it can make us sick.

The story begins with a suicide. This event will catch your attention right away and never let go until the last page of the novel. There is a sort of mystery that surrounds his death. Here is when we first see the complications of love and the death that accompanies it. It is said that the best reason to die, is for love. This novel deeply examines the nature of love and its different levels. As in life, there is one person who loves with all their heart and then there is another person who only seems to play with the other person's emotions. There are also people who love blindly. They are only in love with the illusion they have made in their heads of a person. They may only see what they want to see.

This book also raises the question of whether sex can bring about love. Today in our society there are many people who have many sex partners without any real feeling towards them. To me, people who have multiple sex partners are dirty and have no morals. After reading Love in the Time of Cholera I have gotten a new point of view. There are some people like in the novel who are so madly in love with people who they cannot have. This causes some to find affection elsewhere. The moments when they are with another person they forget about their true love and make the pain more bearable.

The way in which the story is told is another element that makes this book so great. The novel begins in the middle of the story, the turning point.. Then it goes into the past and gives you the history of the people and how they end up in the places in which we found them at the beginning of the novel. Then it goes to back to where the beginning had left off. This is a very effecting way of writing because it makes the reader want to keep reading to find out what happens to the two lovers.

The only complaints I would have about the book would be the amounts of description that I feel were not necessary for the telling of the story. The novel also made the characters annoying at times because they were so love sick, you wanted them to just get over it. Aside from these small drawbacks, the novel was a masterpiece.

Although this novel evokes many thoughts about the illusions of love and the sorrows it brings it does so in a touching and comical way. From Dr. Urbino spraying his urine all over the seat to the sexual quirks of Florentino's lovers, the novel brings a smile to your face.