A review by mmcloe
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

This is one of the most thorough indictments of heterosexuality I think I've ever encountered. This book is all about readings and misreadings: of romance, of science, of gender, of war, of culture, of poetry. Garcia Marquez tries his damndest to enchant us into misreading love into a nasty awful man for whom women are an aesthetic commodity. 
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