Reviews - El amor en los tiempos del cólera

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El amor en los tiempos del cólera

Gabriel García Márquez

3.71 AVERAGE

zambetispaghetti's review against another edition

2.0

emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

solemly's review against another edition

0.25

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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danielamadrigal's review against another edition

3.0

challenging tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I got lost in the excessive details. I’m probably just too dumb for this book.

ewan_hodson's review against another edition

3.25

dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I’m mixed on Love in the Time of Cholrea; on one hand it’s writing and use of prose is exemplary and all of which conjure a world which is both beautiful and grotesque in equal measures. On the other hand, a large number of it’s characters are poorly developed, it’s omniscient narrator is rambly at times and it’s depiction of a deeply depraved man is flawed I feel, I feel those aspects would have better captured by a female author.

saija's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

lucetim's review against another edition

4.0

Last book of 2024 was

juju_la_grano's review against another edition

2.0

dark reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Unnecessarily long with details that want to bring depth to secondary characters but ends up being only noise.
Can't believe it's considered a classic, this book has discouraged me from reading others of the same author and it does not even has the excuse of being one of his first.
Even considering the difference of time and culture, I have a really hard time believing the female characters could behave as the ones in this book.
I do not consider this book to be about love. It's about obsession and lust. Misogyny, rape, pedophilia are present as normal parts of life, if not glorified.
I enjoyed only the journey around Carthagene and in time. But that's about it.

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