¡JOYA!
Siempre digo que no tengo libro favorito, pero después de esta lectura empiezo a dudar.
García Márquez hace magia con los personajes y la ambientación.

DNF at page 218. This is tough for me to admit. I hate not finishing books but I cannot carry on with this any longer when I am not enjoying it and I have so many other books I could be reading instead. The writing is tedious. Focused on a man rejected when he was young and his infatuation with this woman for years afterwards. He sleeps with numerous other women, as we are shown in detail. His first love marries another, but he still cannot move on. His obsession borders on the creepy, he never ...

5 "masculine, organic, decaying...." stars ! 8th Favorite Read of 2016 Do not make the mistake that this book is about love. This book is about much more common vices. Vices that masquerade for love.Jealousy, obsession, desire, pity and vengeance.Perpetually selfish penises promising but only perjuring voluminous misunderstood vaginas.Men using women that use men.The demise of the body, civilization, disease, poverty, stolen riches, subservience, slavery.Sexual abuse in the guise of parental g...

This was not the book for me. I know a lot of people give it praise and it is considered a classic, but I never got into it.

It rambled . . . it was repetitive . . . I got bored.

What was supposed to be a story about love seemed to be more about twisted obsession and I never found it endearing. None of the characters were all that great and I pretty much found myself feeling sorry for everyone.

I was thankful when I was done.

!بماذا خرجت من تلك الرحلة؟ لا شئ يا صديقياه، سوي أنني زرت جزر الكاريبي بواقعية لاتخلو من السحر لأول مرة دون قراصنتها وجوني ديبو اﻷهم، أني تيقنت أن الشيخوخة ومرور الزمن ليس مفزعا لهذا الحد إذا ماكنت تعرف الحب حقاأنها رحلة نصحني بها مديري العزيز 'ستقرأ عن الحب في زمن الشيخوخة، بوصف مشاعر ساحرة كما لم ولن تقرأ في حياتك' وقد كان محقاالغريب إنني بعد منتصف الكتاب وجدت نفسي أكتشف أن الرواية ليست لوني المفضل من الروايات علي اﻷطلاق...دراما رومانسية بلا خيال ..ومع ذلك لا أستطيع إيقاف سماع ثرثرة الماركيز ج...

LET ME EXPLAIN, GUYS.Okay. I like Marquez. I think his writing is beautiful, his settings are evocative and masterfully portrayed, and yes, his books are pretty romantic, and I always enjoy magical realism (this one could have used more of that last bit, though). The last twenty pages of the book even manged to suck me into the romance of the story, and I found myself finally really invested in this love story instead of being vaguely creeped out (we'll get there). Look, I even found a really ni...

الرواية التي حارب فيها ماركيز الزمن*المراجعة بها حرق للأحداث*‏ الكوليرا داءوالحب داءكلاهما يغير حياة المرءكلاهما يعلن حربا شرسة ووحشية‏كلاهما قاس وفتاك ‏وكلاهما يستهلك صاحبهتقول والدة فلورينتو في لحظة تأمل‏” ..الحب شبيه بالكوليرا ..“ ‏الحرب والكوليرا والحبكلهم يطهرون المرء بطريقتهيعيدون تشكيل من يصاب بأي منهمولكن الحب حرب ضد الموت‏وهو من يضمن لصاحبه الخلودعكس الوباء وعكس الحرب والقتالفلورنتينو في النهاية يتخلص من باقي المسافرين على المركب الذي يحمله ‏وحبيبته العجوز‏ بخدعة أن السفينة أصاب من عليه...

[Edited, spoiler added 3/9/22]Can unrequited love last a lifetime? That’s the premise of this book. A 76-year-old man pines for a woman all his life. Now her husband has died. Does he still have a chance? The man and woman were in love as teenagers, but they mostly exchanged secret notes. She was guarded by her nanny and when her father discovered the relationship, he took his daughter away for three years. It worked. When they returned to the city the young girl no longer loved the boy. She mar...

I don't like this book.I don't like the characters. (This was going to be a list, but then I realized that this is the only reason I have.)Florentino Ariza is a baby. Seriously, his mom gives him whatever he wants, and she tries to make everything all right for him, and he is very, very ... if he lived today, he would be one of those emo kids with the dyed black hair and the eye liner and the journals full of bad poetry (he does write bad poetry, in the book), all "Nobody gets me," and just a gr...

This review was written when I was Mormon. Which I am not now. Take everything you read with a giant grain of that knowledge and know that my opinions have changed. And with that I present…————I previously read "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and I liked it a lot, and I was intruiged by the title "Love in the Time of Cholera" so I thought I'd read it.Within the first few pages I had the inkling I didn't like it, but sometimes it takes books a little while to get warmed up. Plus, I don't like sta...