| Authors: |
Gabriel García Márquez
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Books |
| Language: |
English |
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| Year: |
2003 |
| ISBN: |
0307389731 (pbk.) 9780307389732 (pbk.) |
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4 out of 5: They liked it |
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Review by Denver Patron |
| This has been on my must-read list for years and I should have left it there. Set in presanitation Columbia (perhaps? we never find out) cholera plays a minor role to obsessions, great and small, and mostly sexual. We had stalking, pedophilia, endless sexual encounters, some of them resulting in untimely death. It all ends on a boat that cannot dock, sort of like the sad people in the story, caught in a loop.
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I absolutely agree with the prior review. How this made any must read list and why it was made into a movie isn unbeknownst to me. It was a very LONG, disappointing read. The author droned on and on with detailed minutae, leading the reader on a circuitous path and failing to get to the point....often taking many, many pages to move on with the story. Members of my book club came to the conclusion that this is a style of Latin writing seen in other such tomes. Regardless, I was sorry I took the extra time to finish it....hours of my life I will never get back. |
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The love triangle that lasts a lifetime, or longer for one side of it by Andrew Fitch |
| The love triangle that lasts a lifetime, or longer for one side of it. But it's not a simple story of the triumph of love and hope over adversity. The oppressive sense of a closed patrician class within a dysfunctional postcolonial society is always there and lurking in the background are the corpses of the victims of cholera - the official taboo on calling it by its name makes them all the more sinister. Personally, I didn't like the characters that much. Their blinkered mindset may have been of their time but their romanticism borders on the pathological.
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