Love in the Time of Cholera (Oprah's Book Club)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Author: Gabriel Garcia MarquezEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-10-05
ISBN: 0307389731
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Vintage
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- Condition: New
Book Reviews of Love in the Time of Cholera (Oprah's Book Club)
Book Review: "Oh my dear, I would need another fifty years to tell you about it"
Summary: 3 Stars
Whether to enjoy this book or not would probably best be determined by how one reads it. If for entertainment, it is a clever story, with several twists and turns, and a fairly satisfactory ending, although there were some casualties on the way. If read as a treatise on love, one would most likely gain a fairly wide ranging insight into the different types if love in the novel-although I doubt my interpretation of love was actually there!
Personally, I tried to do a bit of both, but for the story to really be a winner it should have been kinder somehow. Maybe it's me being overly sentimental and sensitive about the betrayal and portrayal of women here, I don't know, but there just seem to be too many women who are lied to, cheated and hurt, and quite satisfied with their lot.
Is Florentino Ariza's love really love? Has he given up anything in his life for Fermina Daza? Not a thing, as far as I could see, everything that he experienced was internal. He lies to her ("I've remained a virgin for you") and misreperesents himself to her completely, taking victims in the process (America Vicuna and the woman murdered by her husband, her name escapes me).
To be honest, he quite irritated me.
The description of the women as one-dimensional people who are just tools for his sexual satisfaction irritated me too. I don't mind a bit of raunch in a book, but Florentino just did not get it right. The section where Dr Juvenal Urbino and Fermina Daza discovered each other were a pleasant exception to the irritating sex in the book. Call me what you like, but sex in a book should make one smile, touch the heart and excite, not irritate.
Yet, the book as a whole, the lovely descriptions and some of the otherwise delicious scenes, made for good reading.
Garcia writes masterfully, I guess I just did not like the direction of this story or the philosophy on love that he presented. Come to think of it, I remember thinking the same thing when reading 'Of Love and Other Demons'.
A man book.
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