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: hopeful and timeless
Summary: 5 Stars
The main character may be a complete romantic who emotionally puts his life on hold whilst waiting for the love of his life to reciprocate- but in the end he gets his girl and therein lies the reason why I feel compelled to return again and again to this story....I also love the fact that they write letters to each other which is something we rarely do these days and it evokes such a different response to an e.mail or phone call....
we all meet people where the timing is off - how many of us really truely love or would committ to love without knowing it will ever work out?
This book is just delightful and full of hope and makes me feel that anything is possible - even when it appears hopeless!
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Summary: 5 Stars
Essentially this book is about choices and in this context makes uncomfortable reading. It is at heart a love story, where love is only requited in the twilight years of the two protaginsts' lives. This is both rewarding (as it seems to support the notion of true love (which will satisfy the romantic in all of us)) and depressing because one cannot help but feel that we are reading about the lives of two individuals whose time has been wasted, and one suspects that this is exactly what Garcia Marquez sets out to achieve. It is a book full of palpable mixed emotions both on the part of the two individuals involved and the reader, and to this degree makes you turn each page with one eye closed. Excellently wriiten (and translated) and impossible to read without the supposition that Garcia Marquez may feel that somewhere he met his true love, missed the opportunity, but hopes that that love may be realised in the future, however late - see Memories of My Melancholy Whores.Book Review: Maybe not for everyone
Summary: 5 Stars
dreamy, wandering and at times more than a little 'fey' this is a bit of a 'marmite' book. Some will love it, read and re-read it and pass it onto friends and lovers (guilty as charged); others, some of whom have scribbled their thoughts on this page, loathe it with a scorn and derision that only Dan Brown and his ilk deserve.
try it, you might like it.
Book Review: One of the greatest books of all time.
Summary: 5 Stars
Before starting a review of this book, it needs to be said that this is not your standard novel. To those used to a diet of John Grisham thrillers and Dan Brown stories, this book will probably be an awkward read. This book actually requires the participation of the reader, combining as it does realism with a touch of magic in a style rarely seen.
At a time where books with linear plots are all that is published and grammar and writing style go out the window, this stands out by being possibly the most beautifully written book of all time. Fluid, elegant and moving, without disappearing into pretentiousness, it weaves its story gloriously. It's easy to see why the author won the 1982 Nobel Prize for literature.
Magical.
Book Review: smug, tedious nonsense
Summary: 1 Stars
Like other reviewers, I came to this book expecting some great work of literature that had the power to change lives. Instead I found a mishmash of 'charming' historical detail, florid but disingenous description, and slow-as-treacle-from-a-tin plot development (and no, I've never even read a Grisham). But in a small way it has changed my life - I'll never read another of Gabby's books again. If you want intense description, a strong historical setting and a story that really will change the way you see the world I recommend Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.