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Love in the Time of Cholera

García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014. Book - 1988 Fiction / García Márquez, Gabriel, Adult Book / Fiction / Classic / Garcia Marquez, Gabriel, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Garcia Marquez, Gabriel None on shelf 2 requests on 4 copies Community Rating: 3.7 out of 5

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Translation of: El amor en los tiempos del colera.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

so disappointed by this submitted by 21621031390949 on July 20, 2018, 6:00pm I have wanted to read this book for a long time, having had it recommended several times by friends. So it came as a big disappointment when I realized I had to struggle to finish it. There is some exquisite writing here (and/or translation from the original Spanish) and the era is interestingly portrayed, but it was just too long. Perhaps it was the small print in the copy I was reading, or the fact that the paragraphs were long, or maybe it was because I kept reading a few pages at night before I fell asleep and so there was less continuity...but the prose seemed unusually dense to me. I often had to re-read sentences multiple times. In the end, I just skimmed the final 30 pages to find out how it ended, and was relieved that it was over.

couldn't get into it! submitted by lisa on July 9, 2022, 12:18pm I dug the Solitude tome, back in the day, and it sure seemed like this'd be a great pandemic read, but I didn't get anywhere near as far as the other reviewer here currently ("so disappointed in this").

Now I find myself wondering if there's a movie, so I could follow the characters and story (which sure do seem compelling) without the slog of the prose. Like the other reviewer, I don't quite get why it felt like such a slog, but perhaps the small print is in the mix! Made me feel lazy and like a bad audience. But this is my experience.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Knopf, 1988.
Year Published: 1988
Description: 348 p. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

READING LEVEL
Lexile: 1440

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0307387143
140003468x
0307389731
0140281649 :
0394561619 :
0140119906 (pbk.) :

SUBJECTS
García Márquez, Gabriel, -- 1927-2014 -- Translations into English.