“I felt i am going to lose intrest after i read only a few pages but i cant put it away either.... i am growing to know each and every character... which is good”
“Garcia Marquez showed the beauty of metaphor.in this book, your visionary impeccability will be challenged.”
“i started hating this book after i had read about a 100 pages , the story comes to a standstill , n the writer goes on telling one detail after another about the characters .. while he intelligently builds characters n describes certain things which stay in your sub-conscious long after you read them .. the way he describes marriages , different kinds of love between man n woman.. truly leaves an impact. the way he describes the sadness the happiness, the loneliness of characters is fantastic . above all what i loved about the book is that it is real, the characters are real .. cause they experience both the sorrow n joy n the ambivalence in life ,they make mistakes , have egos, they r confused...... everything was real . of all the characters i liked fermiana daza 's character the most .. i gave it a 4 because it made me think about the characters n the situations long after i finished reading.. which of course was due marquez 's brilliance .”
“I love this book. I've read it four times and taught it once, and it's different every time for me. When I taught it, my students either loved it or hated it -- there was no middle ground.”
“I have mixed feelings about this novel I excepted more amazement but it wasn't there.At first it was interesting and the flow of the story made sense however as I further read it became very slow and kind of boring.The characters were completely disabled i mean was it love for Florentino or lust ?? and Fermina after all the years of rejecting Arzia why the sudden interest?..anyway it wasn't that bad and it makes you think how strange human nature can get in terms of "love".”
“Una vez que comencé a leerlo no pude dejarlo, es un libro que me llevó por mil emociones y me dejó más de una vez con alguna idea dándome vueltas en la cabeza por varios días. Lo disfruté desde la primera línea hasta el punto final. Conmovedor.”
“Fermina es la más afortunada de los seres! Lo describe perfectamente G.García Marquez y es un placer inmenso leerlo!”
“this french writer had the nobel prize...& this novel was acted as a movie a few months ago..i didn't like it very much...it's not suitable 4 muslims..it doesn't agree with our religion or traditions..but the writer had a great way in writing...writing but for BAD ideas !!!...I COULDN'T READ IT ALL...that's my review...and i'm proud to say it...because i'm a muslim...:):):)”
“He is a master story teller and i like the style of gabriel.”
“I also really enjoyed this book, but agree with "Solitary" and was completely disgusted by his sexual relationship with the young girl, America (a cousin, or some sort of blood relative no less!). It was very perverted! I thought maybe at the end there would be a twist in which America would end up on the river boat with them at the end and kill either one or both of them...but instead she killed herself--it was a really disturbing and distracting episode in the book. However, I really enjoyed this book because of Marquez's storytelling and his incredible use of language, and his handling of the theme of love. His final message seems to be that love is real, true love endures everything, and we can never stop loving, no matter how old we are.”
