Reviews tagging 'Stalking'

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

44 reviews

lonelycitrus's review against another edition

dark funny reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

It is NOT  a love story. If you read it as documentation of a man's obsession it is a fine read that is very funny at times and written with wonderful prose.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Rape, and Stalking

eve81's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Suicide, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual harassment, Pedophilia, War, Racism, Stalking, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

devanie's review against another edition

slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Suicide, Animal death, Classism, Colonisation, Death, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexism, and Stalking

lemann's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, and Stalking

avoinwonderland's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

3.0

Well written and keeps your attention. But this is not a love story, it’s a story of grooming, stalking, rape and pedophilia. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Pedophilia, and Stalking

jstrehse's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Body shaming, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Genocide, Stalking, Pedophilia, Infidelity, Sexism, and Incest

tosodoula's review against another edition

sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

Not even the excellent way Márquez writes can justify this book getting more than 1 star. Romanticising rape and stalking is just fucking disgusting. Thanks but no thanks. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape and Stalking

dprice805's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.0

The prose is well written/translated. However, the story is about a nasty old man who has sex with basically whoever for 50 years waiting for his first sweetheart's husband to die so he can try again. He assaults a maid and grooms a child, which he's the legal guardian of in his seventies, for sex and has a sexual relationship with her until he can finally get his with the woman he's obsessed with instead. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia and Stalking

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Suicide

amkclaes's review against another edition

challenging funny reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

this is an absolutely beautifully written book about a completely disturbing, obsessional love - it's about love, sure, but the way that love can find many forms and require different things from one another, and the pitfalls of "love" that removes you from reality. Florentino is a sad, creepy character, he only finds relationships with vulnerable, lonely women as he pines for the one high society woman that rejected him. Fermina is a totally average rich woman, that García Márquez uses to comment on the obliviousness, the pettiness, and even the casual racism of that class, while also, through her relationship with Urbino, showing how society traps women and the pros and cons that marriage can have for a woman in her position. the book is so subtle and insightful when portraying human relationships and social structures, it's all in a gesture or a look, and the descriptions are stunning. 
i have to say the storyline with the young girl perplexed me. maybe i'm making excuses for the author, but to me Florentino is such an antipathetic character, and he's at his absolute lowest base state, and to me that storyline shows the true harm he inflicts on the world through his self absorption. he makes his raggedy old self the center of this child's life,

and ultimately drives her to her death

because he is unable to extract himself from his lifelong obsession with Fermina and confront the reality of his life, that it has passed by and that he is old now.
one task of authors is to reflect our society, it its ugliness too, and he does that brilliantly

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Suicide, Sexism, Rape, Racism, Pregnancy, and Misogyny

artemismatchalatte's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Stalking, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault