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Love in the Time of Cholera
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I did not enjoy this at all. This is a book about a weak man excessively obsessed with a married woman for over 50 years. He pines his time away with 622 sexual encounters that he records and we have to read through. The book is SLOW! He is sickly obsessed. He's a pervert, possibly a pedophile. He finally is reunited with his true love when she is in her 80's and then he describes their bodies and love life. Don't recommend this to anyone! This is not what true love is...it is a book about obsession and weakness. Wasted my time when there are so many wonderful books out there to read!
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January 17, 2008
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Oct 15, 2012 09:50AM
not a typical romance novel
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Just for the record, I didn't read it this way. I read it as a really well-done portrait of the complexity of life. Obsession, after all, sometimes drives us to greatness and sometimes debilitates us. In this story, love ultimately triumphs over the seedy substitute of 622 affairs, and over the fatal fastidiousness of Fermina's marriage to Urbino. The love life of the octogenarians is a way of showing that their love is more than the simple lust that is part of what drove Florentino to his affairs. But then, we all see things differently. Just thought you'd enjoy hearing a view from a different perspective.
yes.. you are right.. yes, I liked this book when I didn't know about love of a woman.. ten years later, I know what this book is..
OMG THANK YOU!!! I could not agree with you, Rhona
Part of me agrees with you, but I feel like that's the whole point of the book, right? That love comes unexpectedly and in all forms.
Part of me agree with you,but I think this story is the story of what real life is even we don't agree or like that
Part of me agree with you,but I think this story is the story of what real life is even we don't agree or like that
Wow! Never thought in that way... and it makes totally sense :) Still, for me the book is more than the crude truth seen through a black and white perspective. It's exceptionally written, unique characters, full of exquisite romance and with a "forever happy" ending. By the time I finished reading this book (a long time ago), I felt different about the word "love". Just sharing a different point of view.
i agree with you, i dont think the book i just read was a love story
Not to mention he molested a child who later commuted suicide.
I agree with you Leonardo, they misses the whole point of the novel.
Absolutely agree with you!!
Sure it's a love story, love doesn't always go well. How many times does love actually go like other people write about it? Never. This is much more like the clusterfuck love really is.
slow is an understatement
it is a story and romance, not real life!
What a shallow interpretation of the story
It is a story of the Caribbean. It is not limited to the sexual adventures of Florentino, it also talks about the tensions that are rather common in a marriage, the societal expectations that many people had to endure in a time not far from hours, the never ending internal conflict and civil wars of Colombia, the linkages with the Caribbean basin, the massacre of the United Fruit Company workers, the environmental destruction of the Magdalena river and the technological change of the beginning of the 19th century.
Finally someone Say this!
Florentino Ariza is a pedophile. He has sexual relations with a 14-year-old girl when he was over 70. Also, with a girl that he was supposed to care for and protect.
