Love in the Time of Cholera

[BobKKKindle$]

Reading it now. The accuracy with which Marquez conveys the experience of love is brilliant.

[Bilan]

Haha. Revleft goes twitter.

That's on my 'to read list', but not just yet. Tell us how it goes.

[BobKKKindle$]

It's brilliant, you feel so close to the characters because, without giving too much away, the book follows the whole of their lives, and investigates the relationship between death and love and the different kinds of love that people can experience and how those kinds can conflict with one another, in a way that isn't pretentious - and that's not something that can be said of all books that center around love, it also deals with issues of social pressure and mobility. Read it, he doesn't disappoint.

I'm actually surprised more people haven't read this, people around here seem to prefer modern literature, I certainly do.

[Vanguard1917]

Coincidentally, i bought this last week from Waterstones because i needed to spend over 10 pounds to get Cormac McCarthy's The Road for a fiver. (Clearly i'm a sucker for crap deals.) I'll probably get around to reading it sometime this year since you recommend it so highly.

[Bilan]

V1917, I'd say you got stooged.

[Vanguard1917]

Big time.

[bricolage]

I'm actually reading it at the moment, I loved 100 Years of Solitude so I have high hopes.

[Angry Young Man]

Read Autumn of the Patriarch. The prose is incredible but it's a beast of a thing to read. No paragraphs and very few full stops.

[Liberateeducate]

Damn, I saw this book today at a thrift store for 85 cents. I passed it up because I only had 5 bucks. Now I really wish I bought it, because of your analysis!

I got In Dubious Battle BY Steinbeck, Lies my teacher told me by James W. Loewen, and The God of Small Things by Arhundati Roy instead. for $4.56

[MarxSchmarx]

In the original spanish, the prose reads like poetry. It's amazing what Marquez can pull off.

[The Feral Underclass]

It's brilliant, you feel so close to the characters because, without giving too much away, the book follows the whole of their lives, and investigates the relationship between death and love and the different kinds of love that people can experience and how those kinds can conflict with one another, in a way that isn't pretentious - and that's not something that can be said of all books that center around love, it also deals with issues of social pressure and mobility. Read it, he doesn't disappoint.

I haven't read the book, but the film with Ed Norton does nothing to convey any of that. Perhaps it tries, but badly. I cared neither for the characters or their situation and plight.

If you're enjoying the book so much, don't see the film! It will ruin your life.

[pierrotlefou]

posting to say I am glad this is NOT about the band.