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Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel García Márquez
Like the movie Raw (2016), this is a 5 star experience that I do not recommend and would not wish on anybody.
Many aspects of this story and it’s characters are problematic- often to extremes that gave me pause. It does, however, take immense talent to turn a story about men who are disrespectful assholes and in the protagonists case, also a rapist and pedophile, into a gorgeous & meandering romance.
The rich description, even when it’s of dead animals, streets ranks with disease, and unfiltered terrors of old age, is unparalleled and truly transporting. The romance is sweeping and grand, and though it often borders on toxic, also speaks deeply about delusions of love and the lies we tell ourselves.
I’ll probably be conflicted about how much I love this novel for the rest of my life.
Many aspects of this story and it’s characters are problematic- often to extremes that gave me pause. It does, however, take immense talent to turn a story about men who are disrespectful assholes and in the protagonists case, also a rapist and pedophile, into a gorgeous & meandering romance.
The rich description, even when it’s of dead animals, streets ranks with disease, and unfiltered terrors of old age, is unparalleled and truly transporting. The romance is sweeping and grand, and though it often borders on toxic, also speaks deeply about delusions of love and the lies we tell ourselves.
I’ll probably be conflicted about how much I love this novel for the rest of my life.