View Poll Results: 'Love in the time of Cholera' : Final Verdict

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  • * Waste of time. Wouldn't recommend it.

    1 4.55%
  • ** Didn't like it much.

    1 4.55%
  • *** Average.

    3 13.64%
  • **** It is a good book.

    4 18.18%
  • ***** Liked it very much. Would strongly recommend it.

    13 59.09%
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Thread: Love in the Time of Cholera

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    Pièce de Résistance Scheherazade's Avatar
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    Love in the Time of Cholera

    We are reading Love in the time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in November. Please post your thoughts and comments in this thread.

    *runs to the library to get her copy*





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    I would place this in my top 10 books. Its my favorite Marquez book. I feel sad for people that can't pull this one off their own shelf, but must run to library. sniff
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    Whoo Hooooo!!!!!!!! It's not english!!!!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by papayahed
    Whoo Hooooo!!!!!!!! It's not english!!!!!!
    As much as I enjoy English author's I'm going to agree with you here, papayahed! I never did finish The Return of the Native.

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    Now I need to have a looky if they have it in English in the library(ies)
    I have a plan: attack!

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    Woot! I just got my copy today!
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    I read this over the summer so I'm looking forward to the discussion!

    I bought Love in the Time of Cholera a couple of years ago (and never got around to reading it til this year) but I noticed that the new edition has way better cover artwork.

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    I'm dying to know what was in the letter that the Jermaine guy wrote.....
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    Good morning, Campers! Jay's Avatar
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    I got a copy of it! *cheers* I might actually finish in on time... that is, before we're supposed to start to read a new book.. all I need is to finish TROTN
    I have a plan: attack!

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    I got a copy too!!!
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    gnothi seauton Eva Marina's Avatar
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    I agree with you, papayahed. What could have possibly taken up several pages (was it pages, plural?)? Suspense....
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    Got my copy today finally and just starting to read it.
    It was inevitable: The scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
    I think this is one of the most beautiful first sentences I read.
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    "It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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    ok, now what made Fermina change her mind?? Just the fact that she has grown up?
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    I'm a little late in this, but I just got my copy yesterday (our library's is remodeling, so they don't have much in their temporary space right now). Now I know why everyone's pondering the letter... What a great way to trap a reader!
    Hwæt! We Gar-Dena in geardagum,/Þeodcuninga þrum gefrunon,/hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon!
    Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,/ monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah,/ egsode eorlas, syððan ærest wearð/ feasceaft funden; he þæs frofre gebad,/ weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah,/ oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra/ofer hronrade hyran scolde,/gomban gyldan. Þæt wæs god cyning!

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    I read it last year and I loved it... I wanted to buy it here but there were only copies in Albanian and I wanted to read it in English so my sister ordered it for me from Germany... and now I have an English copy...

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