beckydk 's review for:

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

3.0

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I think this is the first time I am reviewing a book on this blog which I really did not like. And I really really wanted to like it. I watched the movie when it came out a few years ago and I really enjoyed it, but the book? Not so much. I don't know exactly why though. The language is beautiful (I have many beautiful quotes to share with you), but the story it just... I did not like it. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Marquez is the story of a man who when he was young fell in love with a girl. They have a passionate relationship through letters for a couple of years, but when her father finds out he gets furious and takes her on a journey away, so that she'll forget about the young man. They continue their romance through telegrams, but when she returns and finally sees him again she realizes she does not love him and she breaks it off. He however, continues to obsess over her. Stalk her. Think of her. While he sleeps with many other women, he resolves to always wait for her, certain that he will marry her one day. Oh, and did I mention that one of these other "women" is a 14-year-old girl whom he is a guardian for? That was just disgusting and wrong in so many ways.