Love in the Time of Cholera

Paperback, 348 pages

English language

Published July 10, 2003 by Vintage.

ISBN:
978-1-4000-3468-0
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4 stars (18 reviews)

Love in the Time of Cholera (Spanish: El amor en los tiempos del cólera) is a novel by Colombian Nobel prize winning author Gabriel García Márquez. The novel was first published in Spanish in 1985. Alfred A. Knopf published an English translation in 1988, and an English-language movie adaptation was released in 2007.

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Review of 'El Amor en los Tiempos del Colera' on 'Goodreads'

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[En ingles pues se me hace mas fácil describirlo]. Abandoned at 34%. Maybe it'll get better, but it sure isn't promising. There's precious little love so far, merely infatuation and stalking and obsession.

There are only two decent characters in the book: the first has just died as the book opens, the other gets barely a few pages of presence shortly thereafter. The main male character is a shallow religious hebophilic creep -- curious how those so often go together -- with no redeeming qualities so far. The main female character has some promising aspects but what is shown so far isn't enough to tell. The secondary main character is a seriously disturbing incel loser.

GGM knows better -- he has two memorable lines (so far) that show moral sense -- but it's not worth dealing with the vapid, meaningless rest of it. The language is painfully florid, making it …

Review of 'Love in the Time of Cholera' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

There are books that I don't think you can understand until you have lived some. This is one. A classic book, but one where you need to know about love coming to you later in life, how you can wait for someone you care deeply for to come back into your life - sometimes by surprise or circumstance, or if you are willing to sacrifice in order to try to make it happen. Highly recommended.

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3 stars

I worry when I don't love a classic that I've missed something. It's not that there's nothing to appreciate in this novel - it's well-written, grand in scope, ambitious - but I found Florentino to be, well, loathsome. When one half of a couple is so base and manipulative, enjoying the romance becomes impossible.

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