Re: Love in the Time of Cholera

I would love to read more things about the book, as I am planning on reading
100 Years of Solitude soon, and so it will be keeping in a sort of Marquezian
thread. Thank you, John.
I am not entirely sure I feel "let down" by the book. Bad phrasing on my
part. I liked it, when I was expecting to love it. There were bits that I
thought were wonderful- my favorite being the descriptions of the city and the
jungles and the smells and things- I particularly loved the bit about the tea
"tasting like window." But I didn't really like the characters much. They just
seemed a little flat from me- in fact, my favorite characters were the Widows
that Florentino Ariza slept with. The others didn't seem original or
multi-dimesional enough. And the story was sort of an old one, unrequited love,
bittersweet ending, that sort of thing. Other then that, I can't quite put my
finger on what it was that didn't make me feel that coming out of the movie
theater sort of catharsis that I was sure was coming.
Britt

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