Love in the Time of Cholera (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Love in the Time of Cholera (Oprah's Book Club)
Book Review: One of my all-time favourite books
Summary: 5 Stars
Garcia Marquez won the Nobel Prize for literature after writing this. An unforgettable book.Book Review: I LOVE IT!
Summary: 5 Stars
It's partly based on his parents' love story, but of course his dad didn't wait 80 years for his mum to become his wife, otherwise this book wouldn't be around...I like this book a lot, I've read the Chinese edition twice, and English edition twice as well. Several bits of the books just stick on to my mind forever. The first one is the girl agreed to marry the boy, after the boy has proposed, on the condition that "you promise that you'll never make me eat aubergine." The girl eventually started to like aubergine after she's became a grown woman. The second one is, the boy knowing that the girl is going to leave him and he'd be able to have her as his wife, he got drunk on his mother's perfume. His mum looked for him everywhere and it took her about a day to find him, lying on the sea side, next to his pool of flowery smelling throw up.
It's moments like these that make me love his novels so much.
The other great qualities are: a great portion of the book talks about two elderly people and this doesn't make it to the script of most novels; it talks about how the guy get through the years without the love of his life around him, which one can easily draws similarities to the lives of lots of people who spend most of their lives waiting to get the things they want to arrive in their lives.
Book Review: Marquez's Masterpiece.
Summary: 5 Stars
Spanish must be the most beautiful and evocative language in our world. Its translation ito English makes for the most rythmic, pulsating, lyrical english you'll ever read. Add to that the genius of Marquez, and what you have is one of the greatest novels ever written. Every sentence has a mixture of comedy, tragedy, irony and paradoxes. If this book doesn't make you laugh, it'll make you cry. Else you'll be doing both. Everybody's got their perfect melody somewhere in their brain, of which you hear fleeting parts, but full tune escapes you. This book is that perfect melody, and after reading it, your whole melody becomes crystal.Book Review: A magical, mystical, lyrical testament to love
Summary: 5 Stars
I do not believe that any form of words in any language can convey the greatness of this book. After reading this, my cynicism melted away and I now believe that love truly unites us all. Read this and The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, and a new path will open up for you.Book Review: Interminable drivel
Summary: 1 Stars
One definition of an author is 'someone who spends 80,000 words telling a story for which a normal person would only need 80'. In this case, Marquez is certainly one of the greatest authors there is.I wanted to like this book, but was unable to form any sort of relationship with any of the characters. Apart from maybe love-sick Florentino, who I wanted to punch repeatedly in the face. Allied to this there are long periods in the book when NOTHING WHATSOEVER HAPPENS. Perhaps this was the author's way of representing the stultifyingly boring nature of life in turn-of-the-century Columbia. Or maybe it's just that this is a stultifyingly boring book.
In addition to the boredom, the reader of this book has to contend with page after page of romantic macho posturing. This becomes particularly unpleasant in the section in which the author implies, apparently without any qualms, that a 14-year old girl being bedded by a 60-year old man is perfectly normal, and something that every healthy girl secretly wants.
I don't know about Mr. Marquez, but having struggled to the end of this book, I feel that it is I that deserve a Nobel prize.