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Summary: Could not get into it
Review: Maybe it's me, because the book has had great reviews, but I just could not get into this book. I read roughly 30 pages into the book and it still just did not grab me. I have to be interested in a book usually in the first 10 pages or so, but I kept going with this one since it was our Book Club selection, so I tried to keep an open mind and plug on. I finally just stopped because I found that I was having to force myself to pick it up. The descriptiveness the author uses is just too detailed and I felt like he kept side tracking. Plus there wasn't much "dialog" in the book. The book jacket description kept talking about the two main characters but there was no mention of them that I could tell until about page 30 and then it was just one of them. Maybe I would have liked it if I perservered, but I am sorry it just seemed to be hard to get into it.
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Summary: Love before the time of therapy
Review: The story line is ludicrous beyond words: a young man Florentino Ariza is rejected by a woman Fermina Daza that he supposedly loves, even though he never exchanged a single word with her. Not being a fool, she instead marries a prominent doctor Juvenal Urbino with whom she shares a long happy prosperous life. At the doctor's death, when everyone is now over 70 years old, the unflappable Florentino returns to conquer her at last, having obsessed over her day and night for 55 years.There is no doubt that Florentino is in urgent need of therapy, since he wastes his life in his delusional wait, jumping unscathed from one affair to the other. In that 55 year span, he has over 600 affairs. That would be about one a month, but the author refers to them as 'love' anyway... sorry but I have to laugh. Meanwhile our impetuous hero also mollests a child, seducing a 14-year old girl put in his charge by her parents. She ends up killing herself when he leaves her but nevermind, seems to say the author. Another one of Florentino's female conquests cannot be in love with him because she was a rape victim in her young age and she thinks she is in love with her rapist. I am not making this up. If this is Nobel prize material, I am a genius physicist.
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Summary: Timeless Passion
Review: Endless passion, relentless desire, for an unrequited love ~ does it really exist or can it for over half a century? Marquez most certainly can make a believer out of you in "Love in the time of Cholera". The characters in this book are so vividly animated, they enter your heart and stay long after you finish this odyssey of love that spans a lifetime. Aside from a fantastical love story between the main character, Florentino Aziza and Fermina Daza, Marquez captures you and keeps you in his magnificent detail of life in the early twentieth century as it encircles the main plot. All the characters Marquez has created throughout are incredibly enigmatic and add to the book's allure. I wanted to dance with each of them as I pictured his characters in bright, colorful attire and roses in their hair moving to an evocative tango of love. There is so much passion in his writing. Marquez elicits a desire so powerful between these two incredible characters that it makes you yearn to feel it yourself. The result is a splendid pageturner to the very end and leaves you with the hope of innocence in a forever love. And so we leave off where we began... endless passion, relentless desire, undying love, does it really exist? You be the judge. Read Love in the time of Cholera today!
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Summary: Too slow!!
Review: I originally bought this book after watching the movie Serendipity. And then heard everyone say how great a love story it is. I was just so dissapointed. This book is really boring. Yes, it probably is quite romantic, as in true love never dies, bla bla bla. But im sorry, i really dont see what the fuss is all about. Its just too slow, too detailed, and i was actually relieved when i was done with it.
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Summary: Amazing Book
Review: GGM truly captures the spirit of love as he weaves a love story spanning over 5 decades. Florentino pines for and waits for reciprocity in his never-diminishing love for Fermina Daza. In fact, his love for Fermina grows over the years as he follows her life, albeit from a distance, with the firm conviction that in the end she will come to him. A truly classic book with the moral 'if you love someone let them go. If they return, they are yours. If they don't, they never were'. Unlike other books which are translated (this one is translated from Spanish), the ideas and the meanings which the author wishes to convey does not get lost in the translation.... A must read.
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Summary: Garcia is magnificent
Review: This author writes with such grace, humility and interest. His prose is beautiful and delicate to read. This book is a beautiful journey through the love of two characters.
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Summary: Love in the Time of Cholera
Review: I read this book in college and particularly enjoyed Garcia's realism in the context of the sexual relationship between the characters. They are older and there is a specific incident in which the male character has difficulty performing and Garcia specifically mentions his age as the reason. He also talks at length about the wrinkled skin, etc. etc. A refreshing, different piece of work. The novel is long, but I was totally engaged all the way through the book. His characters are believable, sympathetic, and complex. A nice flowing story well worth your time.
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Summary: Beautiful
Review: Gabriel Garcia Marquez's writing style is indescribable: there is almost entirely no dialogue, his sentences can run on for paragraphs, and yet its some of the most beautiful language in the history of written word. It seems every translated word is carefully picked to convey to the fullest every emotion Marquez wanted in his works: I could only imagine how it would be read in Spanish by a fluent spanish speaker/reader. Some of the most gorgeous stuff ever written. I don't want to give too much away, but if you love beautiful language, well...you will be in heaven.
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Summary: When you've read 100 years of Solitude
Review: When you feel a hunger for more of that beautiful, haunting Marquez style, Love in the Time of Cholera is the place to go for your next meal. Another great work by Marquez. Begin with the taste of food on a hungry tongue. End the meal with gratitude for another great book by this author.
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Summary: Vivid writing, slow plot
Review: Several people recommended this book to me, saying it was like taking a holiday in the Caribbean. The writing does bring vivid imagry to my mind's eye and the characters are thoroughly developed, but to be honest, I have been trying to finish the book for months and the lack of plot is just dragging me down. I can only feel sympathetic for the whiney, romantic protagonest for so long with out losing interest.
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