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3.4 AVERAGE
3.4 AVERAGE
medium-paced
Only in novels and books i can feel it. If there is movie about this book I don’t think i can watch because i will be disgusted by it
I really admire his writing skills, but had a little trouble with the subject matter. I couldn't get past it.
If you can get over the revolting conceit of this book, that a 90 year old has hired a 14 year old virgin, that's half the battle.
Misogynist? Oh yes? Is the central character a leach; self-centered and delusional? You bet ya.
But it's Marquez so the writing is rich, evocative and beautiful. Having the girl in the story be 14 added nothing and could have been equally as remarkable if she were 26.
Misogynist? Oh yes? Is the central character a leach; self-centered and delusional? You bet ya.
But it's Marquez so the writing is rich, evocative and beautiful. Having the girl in the story be 14 added nothing and could have been equally as remarkable if she were 26.
G.G. Márquez si riconferma un autore meraviglioso.
Il libro, fortemente ispirato a "la casa delle belle addormentate", narra la storia di un anziano professore, ormai giornalista, che decide di concedersi una notte con una prostituta vergine la sera del suo novantesimo compleanno.
La stessa storia sarebbe angosciante (per ovvi motivi) scritta da qualsiasi altra penna, ma dalla sua trasuda solo una romantica malinconia.
È incredibile come ti tenga incollato alle pagine.
Meraviglioso.
Il libro, fortemente ispirato a "la casa delle belle addormentate", narra la storia di un anziano professore, ormai giornalista, che decide di concedersi una notte con una prostituta vergine la sera del suo novantesimo compleanno.
La stessa storia sarebbe angosciante (per ovvi motivi) scritta da qualsiasi altra penna, ma dalla sua trasuda solo una romantica malinconia.
È incredibile come ti tenga incollato alle pagine.
Meraviglioso.
This seems like a strange title to me for this book. I thought it would be more nostalgic, and less in the present.
I don't like this as much as my favorite book One Hundred Years of Solitude, but it was beautifully written, as always. I finished the book very quickly.
I don't like this as much as my favorite book One Hundred Years of Solitude, but it was beautifully written, as always. I finished the book very quickly.
Take a part of society that is usually frowned upon. And when I mean frowned upon, I mean it’s a FELONY in the United States. Like, oh, I don’t know, murder or child sex-abuse. These are pretty serious issues, right? Well, Mr. Marquez is really taking a casual approach to being a pedophile in his latest novel, published several years ago. While I usually love his work, this one left me feeling a little lost and scratching around for the moral of the story.
If you click on the book and read all about it on Goodreads, I’m sure you’ll see what I mean. A 90 year-old man can’t decide what else to give himself on his birthday except an adolescent virgin. Apparently a movie in town or quiet night at home just didn’t tickle his fancy. But instead of sleeping with her he quickly falls madly in love with her while she snores away in the bed beside him at the local brothel. What follows is a fairly short, but still head-tilting, narrative of what an old man does with his time after falling madly in love with a child.
Aside from the obvious “holy-crap-he’s-a-creepy-old-man,” this was not one of my favorite books by Marquez, writer of books such as Love in the Time of Cholera and Chronicle of a Death Foretold. His characters bothered me, which usually isn’t the case, and the story line was awkward and bumpy.
However, I shouldn’t say that no one should read this. If you appreciate his other works, or just have a place in your heart for Latin-American fiction, you shouldn’t detest it so much. Plus, the length means you can get through it in one sitting rather than pop a vein over a week.
Marquez is still one of my favorite writers. It’s sad to hear that he’s currently battling some medical issues, and I hope that this won’t be his final book. If so, I hope that future readers will turn to his earlier works first and love them for what they are.
If you click on the book and read all about it on Goodreads, I’m sure you’ll see what I mean. A 90 year-old man can’t decide what else to give himself on his birthday except an adolescent virgin. Apparently a movie in town or quiet night at home just didn’t tickle his fancy. But instead of sleeping with her he quickly falls madly in love with her while she snores away in the bed beside him at the local brothel. What follows is a fairly short, but still head-tilting, narrative of what an old man does with his time after falling madly in love with a child.
Aside from the obvious “holy-crap-he’s-a-creepy-old-man,” this was not one of my favorite books by Marquez, writer of books such as Love in the Time of Cholera and Chronicle of a Death Foretold. His characters bothered me, which usually isn’t the case, and the story line was awkward and bumpy.
However, I shouldn’t say that no one should read this. If you appreciate his other works, or just have a place in your heart for Latin-American fiction, you shouldn’t detest it so much. Plus, the length means you can get through it in one sitting rather than pop a vein over a week.
Marquez is still one of my favorite writers. It’s sad to hear that he’s currently battling some medical issues, and I hope that this won’t be his final book. If so, I hope that future readers will turn to his earlier works first and love them for what they are.
Storytelling is good, but the imagination of a 90-year old man declaring his “love” to a 14-year old girl is horrible. Horrible.
vi que muchos dicen "experimenta por primera vez el amor, pero el amor no es lo central en el libro" entonces lo es la vida de él? no sé pero no puedo sentir pena por alguien que se enamora de una nena de 14 años
No es lo mejor que he leído de García Márquez, pero creo que merece la pena. Antes que una novela me parece un relato largo, plagado de metáforas luminosas y lleno de sentimiento. Como suele, un maestro no tiene por qué ser perfecto, pero se le nota la maestría.
This is a bit of a departure from the books I usually read. It filled a challenge to read a book by a South American author.
Overall, I thought this book was rather boring. No doubt it has some deep meaning to people who are looking for that, but I was looking for a good story and this book doesn't have much of one. It was kind of like listening to a grandfather tell a story about the good days when his life wasn't really that interesting. Nothing really seemed to happen.
Overall, I thought this book was rather boring. No doubt it has some deep meaning to people who are looking for that, but I was looking for a good story and this book doesn't have much of one. It was kind of like listening to a grandfather tell a story about the good days when his life wasn't really that interesting. Nothing really seemed to happen.