A difficult book to read. A book filled with so much imagery, overloaded with detailed descriptive prose. The setting is most probably (as it is never stated) a town in Columbia in the North Western corner of South America. The time the last few years of the 19th century and the start of the 20th. ...
Several stray thoughts I had while choosing the tags for this one: It's not really romance-done-right. While the title is scrupulous, there is little romance to all the types of "loves" (because there is always that doubt, of what is and is not love, what is selfish use, or abuse, and whether that...
it’s not a love story at all. It’s a story about an obsession and lust disguised as love. in short, Florentino Ariza *falls in love* with Fermina Daza (from a distance), they exchange some letters and dried flowers, Fermina suddenly breaks away and marries a promising young doctor and they are hap...
Well, now that I've read this book, I have to wonder what all the fuss is about.I prefer character-driven to plot-driven books, and beautiful writing can make up for a lot, but none of that was enough to shake me from my boredom with this book while Marquez showed off his stunning literary skills an...
I'm so sick of love stories where the dude is a total creep and it's just fine because it's all for true love and it all gets glossed over or ignored. Florentino Ariza is a teenage obsessive creep who ends up being a super creep for his whole life obsessed with his lost "love" Fermina Daza. From a ...
Not so fond of 20th century translated literature. Actually considered giving up on this around half way through. I really prefer linear stories and this was making me sea sick. However. I'm glad I stuck it out and read through to the last page. It was satisfying in the end.
Love In The Time Of Cholera is as much a love story as Wuthering Heights was – which is to say, it’s not a love story at all. It’s a story about an obsession disguised and perceived as love. My complaint is not about Florentino Ariza waiting for the supposed love of his life for over 50 years. Howev...
bookshelves: nobel-laureate, tbr-busting-2014, colombia, summer-2014, published-1985, translation Read from June 30 to July 02, 2014 Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman, 1988 Read by Armando Durán. 15:41hrs Description: From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude...
This one has been on my reading list for years and has been recommended by numerous fellow bookworms. Now that I can scratch it off the TBR list.. sorry to say - it didn't exactly blow me away. This book takes place in a small Caribbean town in the late 18th - early 19th century and is primarily ...
I don't know why I haven't read Marquez before now. I started listening to this book the day he died and it made me feel like I killed him even though that's not even possible because that is not how things work in the real world.And yet...So this is my first Marquez work and I have no others with w...
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