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Summary: Wow! This book made me laugh and cry and hungry!
Review: This was a great book, more sophisticated than a fairy tale and yet it still maintains that air of simplistic innocence. It's richly textured in imagery and irony, and all the bad guys get theirs in the end. What a work of art, a literal feast for the senses.
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Summary: Review of "Like Water For Chocolate"
Review: This book makes you feel as if you're trapped in the situations that Tita, the main character is in. All of life's problems with love are in this book and by reading these love struck stories, you want to find your true love.
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Summary: Read between the lines!
Review: I feel sorry for those who don't understand the symbolism in this book, or who view it as trash, especially teens like me. You must look beyond the surface (even if Pedro was kind of spineless) and have an attention span that is longer than a Pepsi commercial if you want to enjoy reading. This was an excellent book.
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Summary: Enough sorrow for you heart to weep
Review: I found the story between Tita and Pedro a sad and emotional one. Having to set your emotions and feelings for someone aside is difficult. My heart truly went out to Tita for having to deal with her daily dose of heartache and inward physical suffering. I would definitely recommend this book to a friend.
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Summary: Recipes seem repetitive and distract from the theme
Review: "Like Water for Chocolate," by Laura Esquivel, is a book that helds every element of life within its pages. The reader is able to experience love, tragedy, sadness, happiness, and all other emotions that are in-between. It is a story told by the great niece of the main character, Tita De La Garza. By using recipes and remedies, Esquivel is able to portray the life of young gilr in love, and the effects that her family had on her quest of marrying her true love. The only part of the book that would need work would be the theme development. At first the recipes were great, they were useful in allowing Esquivel to bind the importance of emotional affects people have on other people. All the recipes did start to become repetative. It would have been more
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Summary: A must read romance novel!!!!
Review: The enchanting romance novel "Like water for Chocolate" by Laura Esquivel, takes its reader on an intriguing journey. Through the great amount of attention given in the preparation of food from main character, Tita, one is taken on a colorful journey of many exotic foods and the magical and amzing effects it has on those who eat it. Because Tita's life is a continuous roller coaster ride filled with ups and downs, she finds no better way to relieve her ever changing emotions than through her cooking.Depending on how she feels while preparing the meal, her emotions are displayed throught that meal.one drop of a tear into some cake mix can cause an uproar in those who eat it. The reader will get a great image in their mind after reading each recipe and its significance to each chapter. Neighboor and friend of the family, Pedro, plays a great role in this novel, when becoming Tita's love interest. But because of old family traditions they are never allowed to be together. In trying to find a way to communicate with Pedro, on another level, she prepares meals that will satisfy and fulfill both of their emotions. The affects are amazing and cause various reactions to not only Pedro but all who eat it. Through heartbreak, painful secrets and years of pain and unbearable deceit, Tita and Pedro continue this taboo love for each other. But because of their desire to be together who condones them? What happens to those who are against the marriage? Will they ever be together?
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Summary: This is a romantic and traditional love story
Review: Like Water For Chocolate is a very romantic and sad love story. The main Character Tita, goes through many hardships to be with the man she loves. Tita even has to overcome her mother's family tradition. If you love a good laugh and cry, I would highty reccomend Like Water For chocolate. ~~Miriam~~
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Summary: Absolutely spectacular!
Review: Why can't the two reviewers from Denver see this as a a work of SYMBOLISM! Don't you get IT? Or maybe you're just STUPID! The book works wonderfully in expressing Tita's frustration and how she deals with it by using cooking as METAPHOR!DUH! I thought the book was wonderful and that Tita's charcater was great! Thank goodness women don't have to suffer through narrow minded and outdated traditions in the hands of a few,mean spirited fools(Mama Elena) just because some stupid etiquette book says so!
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Summary: Maybe something was lost in the translation.
Review: The movie was brilliant compared to the book. Monosyllabic diction. Forced symbolism. Dull.
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Summary: Wonderfully written! Star crossed lovers, mysticism & life
Review: All the members of ITCOMS were mesmerized by the lyrical writing style. We all loved the book. A member expressed "you did not tell me the book was borderline erotica". The symbolism (Tita having milk in her breast) and mysticism (Tita's emotions going into the foods, Nacha and John's grandmother) thread throughout the novel was spectacular. Mama Elena was abusive and controlling even after death. She apparently never got over her own ill fated love with the mulatto. The family tradition of the youngest daughter taking care of the mother until the day she dies reminded all of us of "how far" we have strayed from those traditions of the 40's and 50's in our own families. Wonderfully written. Like water for chocolate Tita's and Pedro's love was always on simmer until it boiled over.
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