3.5
Love in the Time of Cholera
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • "A love story of astonishing power" (Newsweek), the acclaimed modern literary classic by the beloved Nobel Prize-winning author.
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.
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3.5
“I think this book was about all emotions but love, I think it would be a mistake to go into reading this book expecting some great romance. However it describes a lot of relationships and dynamics sometimes presented as love or precievd as such in a very realistic way. Although I was not thrilled about the ending though, It would have been better if Florentinos delusion about Fermina would break, because what he felt was not love but obsession about an illusion of her, or at least that was my perception of it.”
“i just cant believe this is a critically acclaimed and generally well received book.
it just got more and more problematic as i read on but i reached my breaking point when he groomed and formed a sexual relationship with a female RELATIVE. who was a minor btw!!
not only that, but in his wait for fermina daza, he sleeps with countless women!! treating them as objects. it is even mentioned in one part of the book that he sexually assaults a maid???
florentino ariza is not a romantic man. this is not romance. waiting 51 years for a woman who rejected you is NOT romantic - it's creepy and straight up obsession!
the only thing i can really appreciate is gabriel garcia marquez's poetic and elaborate writing style. which is why ive rated it so high. other than that, terrible plot.”
“I wanted so badly to love this book. Sadly, I couldn’t get past the ickiness. 😐”
About Gabriel García Márquez
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ was born in Colombia in 1927. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love In The Time Cholera, The Autumn Of The Patriarch, The General In His Labyrinth, and News Of A Kidnapping. He died in 2014.
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