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Summary: Unforgettable reading
Review: What a wonderful book! What a writer! How he captures the inner most essense of his characters. He is able to bring to life all of these people with such great ease.
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Summary: Stunning ending
Review: This book reminds me in some ways of East of Eden. While both kept my attention to the end, until the very end neither struck me as a great book. The endings of both books affirm life and love and dreams and humanity. The ending of "Cholera" is, in my opinion, perfect.
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Summary: An Examination of Love
Review: I think a lot of the online reviewers of this book don't realize that this book is not about the relationship of Fermina and Florentino. The book is about love in all of its forms, and the characters in the book exist as vehicles to examine the strangest and most powerful of all human emotions. Love in the Time of Cholera is about: unrequited love (Florentino for Fermina); marital love (Fermina and Juvenal); platonic love (Florentino and Leona); angry love (Florentino and the poet who makes him so furious); jealous love (the adulterous wife killed because of her affair with Florentino); young love (Florentino and Fermina in the beginning); dangerous love (the mental patient and Florentino); adulterous love (Juvenal and his affair, Florentino and many of his women); love from afar (Florentino and Fermina); elderly love (Florentino and Fermina, Fermina and Juvenal; the cyanide suicide); May-December love (Florentino and his ward); the relationship between sex, age, society, art, death and love (pretty much the whole book).I could go on, but you get the idea. Any attempt to read this book as the story of Florentino and Fermina misses the point. The book is still very enjoyable that way, but look beyond the surface and enjoy Marquez' ruminations on that thing called love that drives us all crazy. Incidentally, I think it's one of the best books ever written.
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Summary: Simply Brilliant
Review: After reading the long, dull, drawn-out, bore that is 100 Years of Solitude, I was a bit reluctant to read this book. How terribly mistaken I was. As inane as 100 Year is Love is lyric poetry. I can't remember being as affected by a book as much since reading The Great Gatsby. I have no qualms about saying this is the best book I have ever read.
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Summary: if ever a book was good . . .
Review: The title speaks quite a bit about this story. It is one attending to the smells of things, and the untidy technicalities of emotions, and lifelong human traits. Pathetic love. Constructed love. Choleric love. I don't even know if I liked the book, but that is not very important. The book is good, and it told me something qualitative about an intrinsic human function.
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Summary: Beauty of a love unfolding
Review: Every page offers descriptions that dazzle each of the senses. I could smell the gardenias, and the stench of the town's open sewers and could see the sunsets, taste the cafe con leche. But to watch the patience of Florentino as he waits 50 years for the love of his life made you want to wait with him. The rages of Fermina as she did battle with her own will brought tears to my eyes. The sweet kindnesses she receives and rebukes in her youth are touching when she relives the opportunities to return them in kind in her old age. This book is a far cry from "One Hundred Years.." but by no means fails to meet the test that any Garcia Marquez book stands: to transport the reader into a tangible world both beautiful and cruel.
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Summary: Beautiful!
Review: I loved every page of this book. This is a true love story; passionate, painful, comical, and on and on! You'll want to read it more than once!
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Summary: The best book ever written about love, patience and faith.
Review: After finishing this book, everything seems beloved to you. Men, women, flowers, water, even cholera finds a place in your heart as a way of getting close to someone and not as a disease! What did you say? I'm crazy? Ok, I may be. But I'm also the happiest man in the world. And I love it.
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Summary: An timeless love story about enduring love, worth reading.
Review: A beautiful story, the author passionately evokes the scene and the characters are believable. Love that is unrequited is far more intense but the ending is sentimental and unforgetable. Read it.
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Summary: different from how i'd expected but good
Review: Terrific -- read it and you'll see why
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