umpaola7's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
amydobrzynski's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
benyeagley's review against another edition
5.0
I don’t think cholera is a bad enough disease to be compared with the “love” in this book.
not_nosferatu's review against another edition
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.0
It’s well written BUT everything Florentino does after Fermina turns him down is an exponentially bigger red flag. It would have been a public service to castrate him
Content Warnings
Graphic: Pedophilia
Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment
savagebean's review against another edition
4.0
This was my summer reading this year. You don't need another review of a novel that's almost as old as I am and super famous.
Loved it, great beach reading, even better for dispatching snippets of something funny, melancholy, and true.
Someone remind me to reread this in 30 years or so, something tells me it'll hit different when I'm 75.
Loved it, great beach reading, even better for dispatching snippets of something funny, melancholy, and true.
Someone remind me to reread this in 30 years or so, something tells me it'll hit different when I'm 75.
awilderm23's review against another edition
4.0
4.25
poignant to read this at this particular time
‘He had escaped the torments of memory with the aromatic fumes of gold cyanide.’
‘Remember me with a rose.’
‘The man who has no memory makes one out of paper.’
For many years she had erased him from her life and this was the first time she had seen him clearly, purified by forgetfulness.
From time to time, when they came home from a wild fiesta, the nostalgia crouching behind the door would knock them down with a blow from its paw.
The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.
Death, that son of a bitch, would win an irreparable victory in his fierce war of love.
She led him by the hand to the bed as if he were a blind beggar on the street and cut him to pieces with malicious tenderness.
They were both intimidated. They could not understand what they were doing so far from their youth on a terrace with checkerboard tiles in a house that belonged to no one and was still redolent of cemetery flowers.
We called each other tu before.
poignant to read this at this particular time
‘He had escaped the torments of memory with the aromatic fumes of gold cyanide.’
‘Remember me with a rose.’
‘The man who has no memory makes one out of paper.’
For many years she had erased him from her life and this was the first time she had seen him clearly, purified by forgetfulness.
From time to time, when they came home from a wild fiesta, the nostalgia crouching behind the door would knock them down with a blow from its paw.
The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.
Death, that son of a bitch, would win an irreparable victory in his fierce war of love.
She led him by the hand to the bed as if he were a blind beggar on the street and cut him to pieces with malicious tenderness.
They were both intimidated. They could not understand what they were doing so far from their youth on a terrace with checkerboard tiles in a house that belonged to no one and was still redolent of cemetery flowers.
We called each other tu before.
wellsee's review against another edition
5.0
One of my favourite books of all time.
Initially, I was a bit skeptic when I saw the Goodreads ratings for this book. So I was really positively surprised when I almost read 100 pages in my first sitting.
Initially, I was a bit skeptic when I saw the Goodreads ratings for this book. So I was really positively surprised when I almost read 100 pages in my first sitting.
kt15's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
hellokelsiejo's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75