Sign in with Facebook
Sarah's Reviews > Love in the Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera
by
by
Sarah's review
bookshelves: hot-lit, page-to-screen, owned, ew-100-new-classics, 1001-must-read, book-club-dm, book-club-rg, 100-to-read-in-a-lifetime
Oct 16, 2007
bookshelves: hot-lit, page-to-screen, owned, ew-100-new-classics, 1001-must-read, book-club-dm, book-club-rg, 100-to-read-in-a-lifetime
If it's possible to like the writing and still find it very dull, that's how I felt about this book. I know it's a book about waiting, but that didn't really excite me. It seems like a book where a whole lot of nothing happens except at the very beginning and at the very end. Meh.
Sign into 欧宝娱乐 to see if any of your friends have read
Love in the Time of Cholera.
Sign In 禄
Reading Progress
October 16, 2007
– Shelved
November 18, 2007
– Shelved as:
hot-lit
November 18, 2007
– Shelved as:
page-to-screen
November 20, 2007
– Shelved as:
owned
September 12, 2008
– Shelved as:
ew-100-new-classics
November 19, 2008
– Shelved as:
1001-must-read
Started Reading
August 2, 2009
–
Finished Reading
July 24, 2012
– Shelved as:
book-club-dm
July 24, 2012
– Shelved as:
book-club-rg
February 22, 2014
– Shelved as:
100-to-read-in-a-lifetime
Comments Showing 1-4 of 4 (4 new)
date
newest »
newest »
message 1:
by
Joanie
(new)
-
added it
Aug 02, 2009 12:44PM
That's just how I felt (although I haven't finished-stalled out at page 150 or so.) The writing is beautiful and I found myself wishing I could climb inside but the story did little to keep me going. I really want to finish it at some point but I'm afraid it will take a lot to motivate me to pick it up again.
reply
|
flag
Sarah, I read this thing ages ago, and I doubt the current version of me would feel the same way about it as the younger version of me, but I was blown away by his writing at the time -- and yet I can sort of remember feeling as if it were nothing but an overly long reverie. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is immensely talented, but I wish he gave his readers a little less... of everything. (Incidentally, this is the only one of his books that I really loved {again, at the time}. I thought One Hundred Years of Solitude was a bore.)
Yes, the writing is very beautiful! But I didn't give a hoot about any of the characters or what happened to them. I thought they made their own beds, so to speak, and then whined about having to lie in them.
I have to say I loved the book, but finshing the last chapter was the hardest climb I've had to make in a long time. It felt like it was never going to end and it was only 50+ pages long!
