A humourous and heart-warming story of a man who fails to the marry the girl he loves and then has some other affairs before falling in love again with the original. A dissection into the love between a man and a woman. ( )

Fear and beauty of longing of love. A love story to an era that seems to have disappeared. “We men are the miserable slaves of prejudice,” he had once said to her. “But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral considerations she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.” Breathtaking. Feeling joy for her, how can I? Yet, I'm her ... I can see that in myself. Adore Garcia Marquez, thick of noteworthy description. Hope that Fermina would step into the future rather than the past ~and I will too. ( )

MUCH easier to follow than 100 Years of Solitude. The storytelling is great as it goes along, but looking back over the course of the novel, I feel something was missing. So, nice parts, but lacking as a whole. ( )

omg. i hated this book i could not get into it. plus it skip around so much. ( )

To be honest my expectations were far too high, seeing as Gabriel Garcia Marquez won the Nobel Prize in Literature. I think I was expecting one of the greatest masterpieces I have ever read, but it felt more like the type of novel you are assigned to read for a class, that drags on and on the more you read it. At first I was impressed with the unique and gorgeous prose, the attention to the tiniest of details that seemed to make the characters so real. But, as I continued the book, I realized I didn't have much respect or liking for any of the characters, and that made it more difficult to care or get excited about finding out what happened with any of them! What I did like was the depictions of many types of love, of how different types of people experience love in different ways, and above all how we change as we live out our lives and how our perceptions and feelings change along with us. I don't think I will try reading this again for sometime, but for now I was impressed enough with Marquez to try reading at least one more of his books. ( )