El amor en los tiempos del cólera

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De jóvenes, Florentino Ariza y Fermina Daza se enamoran apasionadamente, pero Fermina eventualmente decide casarse con un médico rico y de muy buena familia. Florentino está anonadado, pero es un romántico. Su carrera en los negocios florece, y aunque sostiene 622 pequeños romances, su corazón todavía pertenece a Fermina. Cuando al fin el esposo de ella muere, Florentino acude al funeral con toda intención. A los cincuenta años, nueve meses y cuatro días de haberle profesado amor a Fermina, lo hará una vez más.

Con sagacidad humorística y depurado estilo, García Márquez traza la historia excepcional de un amor que no ha sido correspondido por medio siglo. Aunque nunca parece estar propiamente contenido, el amor fluye a través de la novela de mil maneras –alegre, melancólico, enriquecedor, siempre sorprendente.

Customer Reviews:

Never got it.......2007-05-12

Never got the product, got the worst feedback possible on my order, nest time will order bokks with any method but Amazon. I wanted it for a present and because of the delay and no feedback my opportunity was blow.

Un muy buen libro.......2006-10-10

Una historia muy simpática y refrescante. Te hace vivir una época de antaño gracias a la manera tan particular que tiene "EL Gabo" en su narrativa.
El eterno enamorado la considerara una hermosa historia de amor, mientras que una persona mas objetiva, podría describir a Florentino como una persona obsesionada.
No lo considero el mejor trabajo de Gabriel García Márquez, pero definitivamente es un muy buen libro.
La pasión con la que describe a cada personaje, hace que brote de ellos una magia particular que te hace quererlos, odiarlos, sentir pena y alegría por ellos, etc.
Gracias Gabriel García Márquez por haber creado una historia tan interesante.

Unmitigated Love: A Malady Even To Gods.......2006-07-20

This story highlights the hurldes that true love can overcome. And that when you are frank with yourself, there is nothing you cannot accomplish. Its a true test of your convictions, and is a story for all hopeless romantics. It showcases that two people can love each other to the point where nothing else matters...

Garcia Marquez es unico.......2006-01-06

Disfrute tanto de esta novela, que la volvi a leer pero en Ingles. Desde luego que la novela se saborea mejor en la hermosa lengua Española, pero la traduccion al Ingles no esta tan peor. No a todos les gusta el estilo de Garcia Marquez, pero lo que es a mi, su estilo me encanta. Es unico. Se han dado cuenta como el autor siempre se refiere a sus personajes por sus nombres y apellidos? (por ejemplo, nunca dice solamente el primer nombre; siempre este va acompañado de el apellido.) Que original, no? Porque le di solo 4 estrellas? Soy una amante de los clasicos, y no me gusta que este libro contine muchas cosas que no son edificantes. Un buen clasico (como War and Peace, de Tolstoy) no necesita vulgaridad ni malas palabras para dejar huella.

You have to read that in spanish.......2005-08-28

I think the book shows a lot of colombian background and the features of the people and nature are quite amazing described, so i think you have to read all in spanish to understand the really meaning of the book. I recomend to read that book to everybody who believes that the love never dies.

El Amor En Los Tiempos Del Colera / Love in the Times of Cholera

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Another stroke of genius......
Magic Realism at its best !!!!
A Literary Monument

El Amor En Los Tiempos Del Colera / Love in the Times of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Manufacturer: Sudamericana
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ASIN: 9500703203

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Another stroke of genius.............2004-10-28

One Hundred Years of Solitude is definitely my favorite book of all times. Since I considered I had read Gabo's masterpiece, I never got to reading Love in the Times of Cholera, until now.

A few days ago, I read Memoria de mis Putas Tristes, which came out about a week ago, and when writing a review, I thought too bad the book is not 900 pages long. Then, hungry for more divine prose and magic realism, I remembered Love in the Times of Cholera. I suddenly had 500 more pages of Gabo.

The book turns out to be a 50+ year long love story, superbly written as most of what Gabo has written. The prose grabs you and does not let you go until the very last line.

Every now and then, one reads a sentence in a book and wonders how much feeling, effort, expeience and luck it takes to word something so beautifully. This does not happen too often, and sometimes you go through numerous books without finding one of these, regardless of who the author is. Well, let me just say that there is one of theses magical sentences in just about every single page of Love in the Times of Cholera. The novel is like a bottle of excellent wine....each sip tastes better than the last one. This book will leave you with a sensation od deep, pleasant intoxication.

How does it compare to One Hundred Years? It's simply different. Even though time is probably the main character in both novels, while there's more magic in One Hundred Years, there's more love and passion in Love in the Times of Cholera.

I am left with the exact same feeling after reading every one of Gabo's boks: how the hell does he do it every time?

Don't miss out on the pleasure produced by this novel.

Magic Realism at its best !!!!.......2001-08-10

This is a love story. Yes. It describes with colorful and beautiful words a city that once was the center of the Spanish conquest, with Viceroys and nobility. Cartagena at the turn of the century, is only a shadow of this glorious past. But what makes this book unforgettable is the way you can see word by word, that the power of love is nothing without the element of destiny. A magnificent river, luxurious river ships, alligators sunbathing on the river banks, balloon rides and horse carriages. A fantastic story about all things long gone.

A Literary Monument.......2001-01-05

I read somewhere that the admirers of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (a novel that brought the Nobel Prize for Garcia in 1982) would be surprised to know that Gabriel Garcia Marquez has bettered it in the form of "Love in the Time of Cholera". Well, although I found the latter half of it a little cloggy, I was a great admirer of One Hundred Years of Solitude. But after reading Love in the Time of Cholera, I think it's not fair to compare as different works of fiction as these two novels are, and it won't do any good to Garcia as well.

The only thing common to these two novels, however, is the prose of Garcia. He weaves, with the dexterity of a master craftsman, small characters and trifle incidents into the vast fabric of the novels. Effortlessly moving from character to character and incident to incident, he provides small pegs and footholds to the reader so that he could ascend, like a rock-climber, to his colossal literary monuments. This is especially true for Love in the Time of Cholera, where the reader is provided with a spectacular finale and one feels indeed like setting foot at the summit of Mount Everest after reading the novel. This is by far the best ending of a novel that I have read so far.

There are dozens of important characters in Love in the Time of Cholera but I think the two most important protagonists are Love and Time. And both of them are so intricately interwoven together that sometimes it becomes difficult to tell which is which -- like two shrubs that run up the length of a tall tropical tree. The love of Florentino Ariza, a thin and shy boy, for the beautiful but whimsical Fermina Daza is unlike any in the literature. And in order to have her, our hero must overcome time (half a century!), her aloofness and more than 400 love affairs! I guess even Hercules would have given up in face of these obstacles.

Unlike many other great writers, Garcia has little inhibitions. He is not ashamed of hiding emotions or sugarcoating his ideas; he simply does not believe in euphemisms. You can see everything in bare, harsh light: scars, warts, blemishes, all. Reminds one of ... Life.

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EL AMOR EN LOS TIEMPOS DEL COLERA
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
Manufacturer: EDITORIAL OVEJA NEGRA
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ASIN: 9580600007

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El amor en los tiempos del cólera (MTI)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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$El\Amor en los Tiempos de Colera$
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Waiting for true love

Magical and charming

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Customer Reviews:

Waiting for true love.......2002-09-20

This is a beautifully written book. Very romantic story of two people that fall in love when they are very young and they finally come together when they are very old. The book is filled with a lot of characters and history that are precisely described. The main character, Florentino Ariza show of devotion and love for Fermina Daza can last forever without ever beginning. The books goes through all of Florentino's life, how he struggled to make a name for him self, his casual loves and how he never gave up on his true love. This has become one of my favorite books.

Magical and charming.......2000-07-02

This is one of my favorites by Garcia Marquez and has his magical surreal style. It is a love story in which the main characters meet in their youth, and finally come together when they are old. Set in the steamship era in the city of Cartagena, Colombia, probably just before antibiotics were available to treat colera.

Amor En Los Tiempos del Colera, El (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)

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Amor En Los Tiempos del Colera, El (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
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"Contruccion" y "decontruccion" en "El amor en los tiempos del colera" de Gabriel Garcia Marquez y otros estudios de literatura hispana (Hispanistik in Schule und Hochschule)
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Die Liebe in den Zeiten der Cholera (Love in the Time of Cholera) (El amor en los tiempos del colera)

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Die Liebe in den Zeiten der Cholera (Love in the Time of Cholera) (El amor en los tiempos del colera)

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She vowed not to love the gunfighter who made her burn with desire....

A shivering cold angel...

Maura Reed was all alone in her Montana hotel, curled up in her robe and slippers, when the blizzard hit. It was cold, quiet, and lonely--until a rugged gunslinger blew in from the storm demanding shelter. Just for this night--this wild, stormy night--Maura wanted someone, something. Recklessly, she abandoned herself in his arms, knowing he would be gone by morning. The last thing she ever expected was the need that drove her into the wilderness . . . to find the stranger who haunted her dreams. . . .

A hot, dangerous devil...

He was the fastest gun in the West, a man who feared nothing until he met the woman who touched his heart. Quinn Lassiter didn't even recognize Maura when she cornered him in a distant saloon months later. Never in his wildest dreams did he see himself married--until he said the words that made her his wife. He was determined to do the right thing by the woman he'd wronged, but he'd never reckoned on falling in love with her. . . .

Customer Reviews:

WOW!!.......2007-09-21

This was the 2nd book i've read by jill gregory and so far the best. I absolutely loved this book. I couldnt put it down. It had everything you could want in a book; passion, romance, suspense, murder, and love. I cant wait to read more by her.

Cold Night, Warm Stranger.......2007-08-23

Cold Night, Warm Stranger is the best book I have read in quite some time. Once I started it, I couldn't put it down. At first glance it seems like any other Western romance, but it's unlike anything I've read recently.

First of all, Maura's transformation from shy, oppressed girl into fiery, independent woman is sudden, permanent, and very real. She turned away from her old life and never looked back. No wishy-washy frail flower here!

Quinn is a gorgeous hero. He may be jaded and hard on the outside, but inside he is tender and honorable and is truly the perfect man for Maura.

The chemistry in this book sizzles. The love scenes are full of passion and tenderness. The inner battles that Maura and Quinn both fight are real, not silly or contrived. Aside from the somewhat irritating and far-fetched subplot with the diamonds, the plot is smooth and seamless. The diamond subplot is irritating--much like the fly buzzing around your head at a picnic--but it is such a small part of the overall story that it doesn't really have the negative effect you might think.

The gunfights and danger only help characterize Quinn and Maura, and they really do add to the story.

If you want a beautiful love story filled with action, passion, and tenderness, do not pass this one by. It is wonderful!

the best romance i've ever read.. and i've read some romances!!.......2007-03-01

i would recommend this book to anyone! i was in love with everyone in the book very quickly. when i finished reading this book i was sad because it was over. im sure ill read it again though. theres also 2 books that follow this one. im waiting for them in the mail. if theyre half as good as cold night warm stranger ill be happy!!! THIS IS A MUST READ!!!! PAGE TURNER TO THE VERY END!!!!

Loved this book & the author..........2005-11-03

This is the 2nd book I've read from Jill Gregory & I rated both of them 5 stars. I love this author's simple style of writing. There were no dull spots for me. I couldn't put the book down for anything. There is plenty of stuff going on in this book to keep you glued. Usually at the end of a book I feel that there are some loose ends that weren't tied up & I'm left wondering what ever happened to some of the other characters. Not in this book. I'd have to say that this book had made it to my top 3 favorite books & I can't wait to read more from this author. Highly recommended!!!

Am I reading the same book? .......2005-08-20

Obviously reviewers haven't read steamy, heartfelt romance novels b/c this was not one of them.

This book is blah at best. I'm 3/4 of the way finished with it and I'm struggling. It's not a good sign when you leave the book on your nightstand for more than a few nights without any desire to pick it up and see what happens.

Nothing about this book held my interest. Not the plot, not the characters, not the writing....zilch.

Jill Gregory (Cold Night, Warm Stranger - Once an Outlaw)

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Jill Gregory (Cold Night, Warm Stranger - Once an Outlaw)
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`At last, a science fiction story for younger readers!' —BL. `On Jack Jameson's 10th birthday, his family gives him a robot that can do everything Jack can do—and more.' —Publishers Weekly. `The fun lies mostly in Slote's easygoing depiction of parents discomfited by the arrival of a perfect son." —K.

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A Rather-Human Robot.......2007-08-02

Can a robot be a friend? Jack thinks so, even if his father is not sure. Nevertheless, Jack gets Danny for a birthday present. He's programmed to play sports, climb trees and be happy. Be happy? Well,...he's a very expensive robot. And that is why a robot snatcher is about.

[Science fiction for the primary to intermediate grades.]

The Trading Game.......2007-04-12

Dear Alfred Slote,
The book, ''The Trading Game'' is a magnificent story. It taught me a lesson that not everyone's a hero and that not everyone is correct. andy wanted to have the card with his retired professional baseball Grampa, andy decided to trade a lot of money for his Grampa's card , but at the end andy thought about it and wondered if Ace 459(Grampa's baseball card) was such a hero after all.I love this story and it also taught me a valuable lesson.

The Trading Game.......2007-04-12

Dear Alfred Slote,
I really loved The Trading Game! It is such a great book.I hope there is a sequel. This book has descriptive sentences and a good moment of feeling. I think you are a great writer. This is the first book that I have read from you and loved it. I am glad you have wrote this book. I hope to read more of your books
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My Robot Buddy.......2006-01-09

I would recommend the book "My Robot Buddy" for kids who like to read science fiction books. The story takes pace in the future, and it has action from the beginning to the end. The story is about robots that look, talk and act just like people do. If you use your imagination it's not hard to believe that this story could be true someday. The book is only seventy pages long, so someone could read it in a couple of days.

Slightly Outdated Sci-Fi Still Fun.......2003-03-28

All Jack wants for his birthday is a robot. When his parents give in, he's thrilled. Feeling only a little guilty, he orders exactly what he wants in a friend in Danny One. But what will happen when trouble follows them home?

This is a simple, straight forward book. In fact, it's a little two simple. The book is more the pilot for a series then a story all its own since it sets up the characters for future books. Still, it's a fun, fast read that kids will enjoy. I know I sure did.

Originally written in 1975, there were a few things about this future world that made me laugh, especially the conflict over getting a mobile phone because of how expensive they are.

I spent about a year obsessed with these characters growing up. I even took every opportunity I could to walk stiff in the knees myself. Rereading this book, I easily found the fun again. It's a shame the others aren't still in print so everyone can enjoy the adventures of Jack and Danny One.

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My Robot Buddy
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For his tenth birthday Danny wants a robot so he'll have someone to play with. Ages 7-10

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My Robot Buddy
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My Robot Buddy
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Listen to the clear small voice

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Listen to the clear small voice.......2006-08-28

Dr. Leonard Sweet encourages leaders to listen to the signs and sounds around them to determine the directions they should go. Using the voyage of Shackleton as a backdrop, he points out the importance of bringing everyone through these difficult times: that accomplishment of the mission may end up different than we expect. The eyes deceive us more than our ears. Lucid, clear writing.

first chapter is great.......2006-07-03

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First Class Book.......2006-03-09

Sweet gets it! This read is worthwhile and valuable. It is for right now. Don't wait.

The Sound of Leadership.......2005-04-25

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a great, anti-leadership book..........2004-08-30

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