Love in the Time of Cholera

I have read about 50 pages and so far there isn't one particular theme developing. It seems like the narrator is talking about anything and everything as they come along but it is done so masterfully that I haven't felt lost or bored a bit (so far). Enjoying it very much!

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After reading some more... Is anyone else finding this book humorous? It is turning into a poetic, romantic story as I read but still the narrator's comments are rather funny at times.

*possible spoiler*

Do you think the bird droppping on Fermina's embroidery is symbolic? That their affair will be doomed?

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Originally Posted by Scheherazade

After reading some more... Is anyone else finding this book humorous? It is turning into a poetic, romantic story as I read but still the narrator's comments are rather funny at times.

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I loved the foul-mouthed parrot! :lol:

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err...At least the parrot seemed to repent!

I loved the parrot's antics as well! :D

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[Fermina Daza] would lock herself in the bathroom at odd hours and for no reason other than to reread the letter, attempting to discover a secret code, a magic formula hidden in one of the three hundred fourteen letters of its fifty-eight words, in the hope that they would tell her more than they said.

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Has anyone else felt like/done this? I have and it is the awesome feeling of being in love (with the idea of being in love as much as with the writer of the letter(s)... GGM seems like writing from experience as well :)

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Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.

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I found the innocence, naivety and humour of this sentence very touching.

I'm really starting to enjoy this book more and more. I've gotten to the "third" chapter (my copy doesn't have numbered chapters), and am finding that he tends to pull the reader into thinking that the story is going to go a certain way, and then, BOOM! he flips the story around. Then you think back to previous details and say, "I should have seen that coming!"

I loved the eggplant line too, Sher. The author has such and interesting turn of phrase sometimes to keep you interested. I only have one qualm with it.

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...the tender breath of human excrement...

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Obviously "excrement" was not the word he chose, but wouldn't it have sounded better? I mean, the phrase is odd enough without throwing that word in, and it really didn't fit the style of writing. As I initially read that line, it was like a clang sounded.

Im enjoying it too though Ive only got to the second chapter its reminding me of isabel Allandes hous of spirits a bit in the whole feel and atmosphere so far and yet not a horible grouseme disgusting bit yet :D

I hadnt reached the second chapter but I have now...
when is it supposed to be based time wise?
*spolier??* I would have hit florentino if I was fermina not just ordered him out.

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Originally Posted by Scheherazade

I have read about 50 pages and so far there isn't one particular theme developing. It seems like the narrator is talking about anything and everything as they come along but it is done so masterfully that I haven't felt lost or bored a bit (so far). Enjoying it very much!

*edit*

After reading some more... Is anyone else finding this book humorous? It is turning into a poetic, romantic story as I read but still the narrator's comments are rather funny at times.

*possible spoiler*

Do you think the bird droppping on Fermina's embroidery is symbolic? That their affair will be doomed?

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yep I do agree with you... it doesn't develop any theme... but I never got bored wiith it, I was amazed with the way it describes life and things that people do, there are some things I read in this book and i'd go like*yes that's true*, and i'd realize that i've never looked at those things the way it is described there but in fact that is how things are... and yep it is pretty funny, I loved his jokes... :D

:bawling: :bawling: I'm so disappointed! :( :( This book started out so beautifully. I'm about halfway through and its been reading like something you'd pick up at the grocery store checkout. I was hoping that maybe it would be just a small section, but it's been going on for pages and pages. :brickwall All the poetic prose is gone, and I honestly have no desire to pick it back up.

Would you guys hate me if I didn't finish it?

No I don't think anyone would hate you but trust me I felt the same... but as you get closer to the end it gets so much better, I didn't like the beginning neither and I also made a pause but I did read it till the end and loved it. trust me you will like it later on... :D

Actually, I loved the beginning.

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I'm just tired of reading about his stupid love affairs. I could really care less about that sort of thing. If that's what its going to be like from here on out, I'd rather not read it.

well yep most of the time it is about his affairs but not all of it... later on other things happen, and it's actually his way of being loyal in his heart what makes it interesting but I can't discuss it more cause then I'd spoil the fun for everyone else... :)

Nah, still not convinced it's worth reading through. To me, actions speak louder than words and for him to be loyal in the heart makes no difference.

*spoiler*

I did get through to the part were he was taking up his job with the telegraph company and couldn't write a buisness letter without it sounding lyrical. I thought "finally, back to the story!" but then it went back to the affairs. grr... :mad: The book's pretty much ruined for me.

Shea, you'll hate yourself if you don't finish it. I felt the same way the first time I read it.

*second chapter spoiler*

Actually we like the image of a 70-paged love-letter.
We just can imagine presenting it:

"Here is my letter to you" *wham*