eShop USA > Books > Love in the Time of Cholera (Vintage International)
Love in the Time of Cholera (Vintage International)
List Price: $14.95Our Price: $10.17 You Save: $4.78 (32%)Prices subject to change.
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780307387141
ISBN: 0307387143
Label: Vintage Books
Manufacturer: Vintage Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: October 30, 2007
Publisher: Vintage Books
Release Date: October 30, 2007
Studio: Vintage Books
Related Items: Featured Listmania!
Editorial Review:
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Book club hated this book
One of our members suggested this book, the rest of really had no exposure, other than seeing it at the book store. When we met a month later, only one out of 12 had finished it. During our discussion we agreed, it was one of worst selections we have ever made. We were baffled by the high acclaims and great reviews, (including Amazon's 4-5 star ratings), that this book received. Overall, we were mostly disturbed by Florentino's overwhelming fixation on Fermina and his overzealous sexuality as he ... Read More
Rating:  - It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
Garcia Marquez can write. No doubt about it. The man is a marvel. I'd be puddling along, reading of Fermina Daza, and her adolescent passion (and his for her) of Florentino Ariza, or of her married life with Juvenal Urbino when I'd be swept away by a phrase or image, or the smell of bitter almonds. REmarkable. Poignant. Humorus. Heartbreaking. So much like life. The unfolding of love after youth has faded to no more than a whisper was an unexpected gift -- we can't all be in our twenties forever, no ... Read More
Rating: - Metaphorical Romp
Love in the Time of Cholera / 0-14-011990-6
On the face of it, Love in the Time of Cholera would seem to be the biographical telling of the life of a man who experiences every type of love there is - passionate love, quiet love, unrequited love, angry love, insane love, young love, old love, adulterous love, and thousands of other flavors of love.
The main character, Florentino, seduces and is seduced by thousands of women and - taken literally - no, this is not a great guy. ... Read More
Rating: - Love conquers all . . . including pedophilia?
I'm rather shocked by the fanfare for this novel. The sexual escapades were nauseating, and I vomited in my mouth a little when I read about the pedophilia, which Marquez excuses with a shrug of the shoulders and a wave of the hand. And while the idea of unrequited love can be noble, and the thought of seniors feeling giddy again is sweet, there was nothing of nobility, and little sweetness in this book. Love conquers all? Hardly. Fermina Daza was correct the majority of her life; stay away from Florentino ... Read More
Rating:  - Takes itself too seriously and too slow to read
I admit I never finished this book. After I didn't enjoy the beginning, I made myself read 50 more pages. I still didn't enjoy it, so I quit. The reviews say it is the greatest love story of all time, so I was expecting this exciting love story. For the part I read, it was very slow moving and took itself much too seriously. A big disappointment.
Related Categories:
Recently viewed PC Hardware:
Toshiba Satellite L305-S5883 15.4-inch Laptop (2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T5750 Processor, 3 GB RAM, 250 Hard Drive, DVD Drive, Vista Premium) Onyx Blue
|
Gateway ELP E3600 P4-2 Ghz Desktop Computer
|
Toshiba Satellite U305-S5097 13.3" Notebook PC (Intel Pentium Dual-Core Processor T2130, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, Vista Premium)
|
ASUS Eee PC 1000HA 10-Inch Netbook (1.6 GHz Intel ATOM N270 Processor, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, XP Home, 6 Cell Battery) Fine Ebony
|
HP Pavilion zv6130us 15.4" Laptop (AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3200+, 512 MB RAM, 80 GB Hard Drive, DVD+/-R/RW and CD-RW Combo Drive)
|
| |
 |
