elinor_thirteen 's review for:

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

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i'm only like 34 pages into this book and i hate it. i'm reading it for a book club and i picked it because i really wanted to give gabriel garcia marquez another shot. i tried to read one hundred years of solitude and also hated it but know so many people who just worship this guy. i doubt i will finish it. he's so describy that it's like you need no imagination to read the fucking thing. there was like 3 pages about the parrot this lady owns and it's linage and why it spoke the languages it spoke and who talked to it more and all the animals they had to go through before finally deciding to get a parrot. come on! i find myself skipping massive sections of writing to get to the dialouge because otherwise i forget who the characters are. i think that coming up with rad titles for books is this guys main strength.