Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezMy rating: 1 of 5 stars
I almost read it but soured on it one hundred pages in. It's my second go at Gabriel Garcia Marquez and it simply fizzled as did 100 years--I can already hear the disbelief. I feel guilt about this (everyone loves this book, he did win the Nobel Prize etc etc) but in the end I'm not a fan. It felt overwrought and overdone. In a few pages I tired of Florentino's passionate love for Fermina. And maybe that's the point Marquez is making--to have a us tire of him and to question the simplicity of romantic love. If so I only needed a page or two instead of an entire novel.
I'm very sorry to any/all who love this book.
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2 comments:
you sure you don't have a bias against latin writers? don't you hate Borges, too?
I kind of like Garcia Marquez's short stories better than the novels too. Hmm.
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