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Love in the Time of Cholera
by: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780141189208
Format: Import
ISBN: 0141189207
Label: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Manufacturer: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: September 30, 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Sales Rank: 3264293
Studio: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- It doesn't get any more difficult to read a book than this.
I tried and tried and tried and tried to finish this book, and finally did, THREE MONTHS LATER, and I read Moby Dick in 48 hours (college assignment, 48 hours, no sleep, even read it in the tub). I am not a slow reader.
There just wasn't enough to keep you interested in this story, and not even any chapters to give you a good stopping point. Every time I picked up the book to read, which was almost every night in bed, I would have to re-read the last four or five pages just to remember what was going on. Does someone really pine away for a woman for 50 years? Especially some nerdy little pervert who's had dozens and dozens of lovers in his lifetime. Surely at least ONE of these other women would have had a precious golden vagina that could spark his interest long enough to make him forget all about Fermina Daza. And don't even get me started on the names. Does the author have to call everyone in the ... Read More

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- More like: Love in the Time of Don't-bother-a
I gave this book 2 stars, because I reserve 1 star for the books that I stop reading before even getting to the end. This one I actually finished, even though it took me 10 months to get through the entire thing. I only read it when I was on travel for work, because I didn't have any desire to pick it up otherwise.

In the book, the plot didn't move much past the description on the book jacket, and the lack of plot movement is what made it uninteresting to read. The prose is very descriptive, but that also has a tendency to slow down the book as well.

But my biggest complaint after finishing the book is how much time was spent on describing the indignity of old age, and contemplating impending death, and giving each other enemas, and what it is like for a couple in their seventies to make love, and describing the wrinkly bodies, and the "smell of old age." I do realize that I will reach ... Read More

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- On the fence
I don't know what to say. I didn't exactly love the book, but neither did i hate it. The love story itself is weird, irrational, shallow and totally forgettable.

The main protagonist, the young Florentino Ariza, a man of questionable lineage and reputation, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of an ambitious mule trader, Lorenzo Daza. Fermina accepts Florentino's proposal of love, but soon breaks it when she realizes that she doesn't truly love the man as much as pity him. Florentino is heartbroken, but respects her decision. Upon her father's direction, Fermina marries a wellborn and illustrious Physician, Dr Juvenal Urbino. Florentino decides to bide his time until the Doctor dies. And how? He goes flitting from one woman to another for 50 plus years. Nice. In the course of 50 years, he's raped by an unknown woman, he himself rapes a maid, seduces innumerable widows, even a 14 year old girl(somebody ... Read More

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- not worth the time or money
ugh. stupid oprah. should've read the one-star reviews first before purchasing it at the time. forced myself to read it in hopes there'd be some sort of enlightenment, but to no avail. read about fifty pages and quit.

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