Love in the Time of Cholera
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Lush, vividly visual prose about love across a lifetime, often praised as one of Marquez's pivotal works and a shorter, more accessible entry point than One Hundred Years of Solitude.
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…miserable formatting) If One Hundred Years of Solitude seems too long for you, I urge you to look into some of his very excellent shorter books, such as Autumn but also Of Love and Other Demons[3] and Love in the Time of Cholera.[4] (Chronicle of a Death Foretold is even shorter, but I do not recommend it as the first Marquez book you read!) [1] It could be the first 10 or 30 pages, it's been several years, but I am certain…
on “Gabriel García Márquez, Literary Pioneer, Dies at 87” ↗By the end of the first page of Love in the Time of Cholera I was already wondering how amazing the book must be in its original Spanish and how much could be lost in translation. One Hundred Years of Solitude made me decide to improve my Spanish so I could read…
on “Gabriel García Márquez, Literary Pioneer, Dies at 87” ↗…ekm2: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4955541 From that list, I would recommend the following to anybody: (Achebe - Things Fall Apart), (Austin - Pride and Prejudice), (Laxness - Independent People), (Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera), (Gogol - Dead Souls [translation by MacAndrew is the most fun one I've read]), (Twain - Huck Finn). From that list, I would recommend the following only if I knew the person's tastes better: (Cervantes…
on “Ask HN: classic literature recommendations?” ↗A bunch of books by Kahlil Gibran. Read The Prophet twice. One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Problem Of Pain by C S Lewis Disgrace by J M Coetzee The Road by Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek On Writing…
on “Ask HN: Great books you read in 2009?” ↗…sorts of pretentious bullshit that the undergraduates were inspired to produce by reading pieces by Marquez, and other South American authors writing in the "magical realist" style. I remember enjoying "Love in the Time of Cholera", and I am sure Marquez himself was great, but in general that sort of crap is exactly what you don't want your children wasting their time studying at university, and potentially misdirecting their professional…
on “Gabriel García Márquez, Literary Pioneer, Dies at 87” ↗- A House for Mr Biswas by VS Naipaul: explores themes of belonging, ownership, home, independence, escape, freedom. - Love in the time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez: explores love in it's many forms. - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry: about love, the absurdity of life, beginnings and ends. - Miles by Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe: about jazz…
on “Ask HN: What is the best book you have read with the greatest impact on you?” ↗…wrote short stories that are consistently good. Marquez has a lovely vivid and very visual prose and writes either in a realist or slightly magical realist style. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera" are the pivotal points of his bibliography.
on “Ask HN: Best book you read in 2010 and briefly why” ↗A deeply thoughtful literary great, to rank among the likes of Dickens, Cervantes and Dostoyevsky in my mind. Love in the Time of Cholera changed me, just like Crime and Punishment did. It affected me more than any other book has. At the time of my life when I read it, I felt that it spoke to my personal sensibilities. I followed that up…
on “Gabriel García Márquez, Literary Pioneer, Dies at 87” ↗…all tiny points in people's lives, and the things that happen make differences for the people or are also easy to remember and not forget. Get one with reference notes in the back too. Besides those, Love in the Time of Cholera was another one way up on my list. Similar to One Hundred Years of Solitude, which I think I prefer slightly more, but reading both is interesting to read since Cholera was written 20 years after Solitude…
on “Ask HN: Favorite fiction books of 2018?” ↗…Road (Jack Kerouac) *One of my personal favorites, but most people either love or hate it, so maybe save this towards the end. On my own reading list: Speedboat (Renata Adler) Money (Martin Amis) Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
on “Ask HN: I have no commitments for the next 6 months – what books should I read?” ↗"It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love." > Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez
on “Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works” ↗60. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
…distant day when his father took him to discover ice.” – One Hundred Years of Solitude “It was inevitable. The scent of bitter almonds always reminded Dr. Juvenal Urbino of the fate of unrequited love.” – Love in the Time of Cholera Each is almost a story in itself, a pleasure to read, and an even greater pleasure to unpack and understand.
on “Gabriel García Márquez’s Archive Freely Available Online” ↗…survival and reproduction. Resources are limited so that only some of us will survive and reproduce. Scarcity produces unhappiness which in term induces human productivity/creativity. Case in point, Love in the Time of Cholera. You want to get the girl but you are a victim of socioeconomic scarcity. You become a life-long melancholic but are motivated to climb the social/professional ladder to get what it is that you couldn't…
on “On Depression & Getting Help” ↗…has topped the list -- not that I ranked them, but I put it first, followed by "It was inevitable. The scent of bitter almonds always reminded Dr. Juvenal Urbino of the fate of unrequited love." from Love in the Time of Cholera. If you know of others that are missing, let me know: http://joshuaspodek.com/great-opening-lines-to-books On a note of remembrance, many years ago, when I lived in Paris, my friend volunteered at the…
on “Gabriel García Márquez, Literary Pioneer, Dies at 87” ↗