First book review; Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Get at me on @sonderbookclub on Instagram basicdean on Twitter 500px.com/dejo... 500px.com/swnt
-“Florentino Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said”- ♥️ I love this book, it’s so well written, it is also so sad 😭, I couldn’t put it down and read it both in English and in Spanish language and find it equally beautifuI, I also watch the movie, it’s good but his writing is so incredible that I don’t think a movie does a justice to it. What I believe did it justice was the soundtrack that Shakira made for the movie, oh gosh that did translate the feeling of the book absolutely incredible 💯
A VERY well-read politician over here was once interviewed about his favourite novels. He said about this one, that it was the only book that he finished, and then went straight back to the beginning, and started again.
❤ I think he writes like someone with ADD thinks and lives. Here but not here and observing and feeling things that often go unnoticed by people paying attention to what there expected too. The world needs more day dreamers to create work as magical as his.
thank you for sharing your thoughts! You convinced me to finally get the book ✨ also, i couldn’t agree more when you said that secondhand bookstores are like “treasure chests that are waiting to be discovered”. that’s exactly how i feel about buying books from thrift stores!
Hi 😁 I was going to see the movie but then I noticed and watched your video about the book. Many thanks for sharing and honest talk about Gabriel García Márquez' s books and his style. Hehe, and now I am tempted too read the book too ☺️
Great Discussion man! i am impressed with your ideas and how you relate to its importance and relevance in today's world, could completely relate to your analogies, i am a film maker and i loved the way you talked about second hand book stores being treasure chests, i will have a look in my nearest charity shop, Cheers !
Remember the movie “A night at the Roxbury”? No? Well, you would definitely remember one of its song which was popularised by Jim Carry by nodding his head with two others in a car. Still No? ♪ ♪ What is love? Oh baby, don’t hurt me Don’t hurt me No more ♪♪ Well, now you surely do remember. So let us answer the question asked fourteen times in the song. What is love? Well definitely it is not roses and chocolates and butterflies, but hey, the song is also screaming twenty-eight times “Don’t hurt me”. So, mathematically ‘hurt’ is double when you ask ‘love’. I am not saying any of this, it is Jim Carry along with Gabriel Garcia Marquez who are saying such absurd things. I am just analysing the song. Alike many of the readers, I too am a fan of the magical realism fiction “One hundred years of Solitude” which bumped me into another of his great work. Although love stories have never appealed me, you cannot escape this genre in the fiction world. Love, which is a set of maddening activities that lead to a lot of pain also invokes suffering, waiting, threatening which is all mental and none physical, is beautifully described in this book. This is a story of one Florentino Ariza and his beloved Fermina Daza who fall in love with each other in their early youth. However, when the matter is disclosed to the father of the female here, she is taken away to a distant relative to spend some days away. The trick actually worked and when the father-daughter duo returned to their home, Fermina has had a blurry memory of her lover. She gets married to the most eligible bachelor of the town, a doctor with high strata and affluent income and a family name to support everything Fermina could ever wish for. It was easy for Fermina to move on with her life. A lavish lifestyle including multiple world tour with her husband was an additional reason for her to forget Florentino entirely. Read the full review at: afictionaltale.wordpress.com/2019/09/23/love-in-the-time-of-cholera/
That's a good question and one I secretly wish I answered in the video as I'm finding many people recommending this book in the time of COVID now - but it doesn't say much about pandemics aside from the fact that life goes on despite them
I'm w my bff and we were talking about this book. We started watching your vid and you have the essence of the man she will marry. If you're not spoken for, I'd like to connect you two. She is beautiful from the inside out.
Good to listen to the review! I have ordered this book but it seems it will take some time to get it delivered! As u have read the book, can you say that Cholera and its social challenges were projected well enough to do justification to the title of the book?
No not at all - I've seen a feel individuals recommend reading this book during COVID, and it puzzles me why this book in particular would be recommended as it is essentially a tale of an enduring romance rather than a societal response to a pandemic. Maybe the idea is that even after many years, trials and changes, love will persist (even through Cholera)? You may have read it by now, but the reference to Cholera might be more stylistic rather than literal - I'm not sure how "catchy" the title sounds in the original language, but the english translation sounds pretty convincing and interesting. The reference to Cholera might be obvious and is going completely over my head so if you have thoughts on why Cholera, let me know.
@@DejanBasic There are some references about the Cholera outbreak in the book, and I think Dr. Urbino (Fermina Daza's husband) treated some Cholera patients - but this was only mentioned in passing.
La descripción que Marqués hace sobre los personajes, las situaciones, los lugares, pareciera que estamos en ese lugar y que somos cercanos a Florentino y Fermina. El amor en esta historia es impresionante, impresionante cuánto tiempo espera Florentino a Fermina.. Muy bella historia!
Imagine thinking the nobel prize is akin to 'turning a few heads' or winning a sports championship. Literally a lifetime achievement for a single person contributing to the progression of humanity. You cannot win it for 'a book', you win it for your body of work and the impact it has had.
Perhaps an NBA championship is something banal to you, but for many it is also the culmination of entire lifetimes of work, passion, tears, joy. Unfortunately, the Nobel is nothing more extravagant than any other entity handing out awards and at this point has lost all it's integrity.. Feynman and Satre turned them down for good reason
I completely disagree but I understand your opinion. But I’m also a scientist who thinks sports is a ridiculous overfunded waste of time and so that markedly colors my perspective, you’d be hard pressed to convince me otherwise 😂 certainly in science, it is highly valued even with all of its problems.
I meant the description he gave matches Romanticism. Magical realism has mostly to do with blending and juxtoposition of real or unreal historical events which often leads to the breaking down of the barrier between the real events and those of fantasy.
@@nasershahkarami7828 Hi, yes, I’m completely aware of what the genre is comprised of. Nonetheless, I stand by my point that the work is technically classified as magical realism, due to its predecessor, 100 Years of Solitude, which truly is a work of magical realism. Although this one isn’t as embedded with those types of elements, it does have a few here and there, and I suppose it is labeled as such due to the implications of the former. Reducing this novel to mere romanticism is an injustice, as this novel is highly anti-romance. Moreso, I would lean heavily on calling it a postcolonial text in that it is calling us to question the various function of many influences in Columbia during the late 19th century and early 20th century.
It must be a matter of taste but for me love in the time of cholera was just like any other romantic novel. there were no significant devices being used and let's say the plot wasn't overtly dramatic or anything that you could call special, although there were very beautiful and noatlgic moments but any Jane Austen novel has a much better plot, characterisation and theme. but that's just my point of view I guess. so I can agree with you there as well. I broke almost all of his novels but most of them leans more towards really storical events in the case of no one writes for colonel. The only truly magical relist work of his it says on the 100 Years of Solitude it is an astonishing work in one of the most true-to-life yet fantastic works I've ever known
I just finished the book and still feeling the impact. What a powerful, moving story!
-“Florentino Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said”- ♥️ I love this book, it’s so well written, it is also so sad 😭, I couldn’t put it down and read it both in English and in Spanish language and find it equally beautifuI, I also watch the movie, it’s good but his writing is so incredible that I don’t think a movie does a justice to it. What I believe did it justice was the soundtrack that Shakira made for the movie, oh gosh that did translate the feeling of the book absolutely incredible 💯
A VERY well-read politician over here was once interviewed about his favourite novels. He said about this one, that it was the only book that he finished, and then went straight back to the beginning, and started again.
❤ I think he writes like someone with ADD thinks and lives. Here but not here and observing and feeling things that often go unnoticed by people paying attention to what there expected too. The world needs more day dreamers to create work as magical as his.
thank you for sharing your thoughts! You convinced me to finally get the book ✨
also, i couldn’t agree more when you said that secondhand bookstores are like “treasure chests that are waiting to be discovered”. that’s exactly how i feel about buying books from thrift stores!
i'm suddenly pregnant only by watching this guy
Is he good-looking?
Me too...he is so hot!!
Jesus 💀
The Holy Spirit 🙏 birth that messiah we can use it
Love in time of covid - 19
Soon!
Thank you for this clever thoughts, why do you stopped uploading?
1:01 correction, he was born in Colombia, he was not Spanish ( from Spain) .
I think you meant that his works were originally written in Spanish.
cheers for picking that up
Hi 😁 I was going to see the movie but then I noticed and watched your video about the book. Many thanks for sharing and honest talk about Gabriel García Márquez' s books and his style. Hehe, and now I am tempted too read the book too ☺️
wow i have such a crush on this dude.
I prefer second hand books. And the little notes and underlined paragraphs. Just beautiful
Thankyou for the review, it reminded me to return to Marquez and the beauty of his prose.
Great Discussion man! i am impressed with your ideas and how you relate to its importance and relevance in today's world, could completely relate to your analogies, i am a film maker and i loved the way you talked about second hand book stores being treasure chests, i will have a look in my nearest charity shop, Cheers !
@5:50 amazing analysis there; insightful.
Remember the movie “A night at the Roxbury”? No? Well, you would definitely remember one of its song which was popularised by Jim Carry by nodding his head with two others in a car. Still No?
♪ ♪ What is love?
Oh baby, don’t hurt me
Don’t hurt me
No more ♪♪
Well, now you surely do remember. So let us answer the question asked fourteen times in the song. What is love? Well definitely it is not roses and chocolates and butterflies, but hey, the song is also screaming twenty-eight times “Don’t hurt me”. So, mathematically ‘hurt’ is double when you ask ‘love’. I am not saying any of this, it is Jim Carry along with Gabriel Garcia Marquez who are saying such absurd things. I am just analysing the song.
Alike many of the readers, I too am a fan of the magical realism fiction “One hundred years of Solitude” which bumped me into another of his great work. Although love stories have never appealed me, you cannot escape this genre in the fiction world.
Love, which is a set of maddening activities that lead to a lot of pain also invokes suffering, waiting, threatening which is all mental and none physical, is beautifully described in this book. This is a story of one Florentino Ariza and his beloved Fermina Daza who fall in love with each other in their early youth. However, when the matter is disclosed to the father of the female here, she is taken away to a distant relative to spend some days away. The trick actually worked and when the father-daughter duo returned to their home, Fermina has had a blurry memory of her lover. She gets married to the most eligible bachelor of the town, a doctor with high strata and affluent income and a family name to support everything Fermina could ever wish for. It was easy for Fermina to move on with her life. A lavish lifestyle including multiple world tour with her husband was an additional reason for her to forget Florentino entirely.
Read the full review at:
afictionaltale.wordpress.com/2019/09/23/love-in-the-time-of-cholera/
Why is the title of the novel/movie "Love in the time of Cholera" ?
That's a good question and one I secretly wish I answered in the video as I'm finding many people recommending this book in the time of COVID now - but it doesn't say much about pandemics aside from the fact that life goes on despite them
Great review. I just got it on Kindle but haven't read it yet. Our current situation drew me to it.
Hope you enjoyed the read yeah good timing
Thank you! Could not have described it better 🙌
Superb analysis man👍👍
Grest analysis! I just subscribed to the channel.
Excellent work!
I'm w my bff and we were talking about this book. We started watching your vid and you have the essence of the man she will marry. If you're not spoken for, I'd like to connect you two. She is beautiful from the inside out.
I am ready to meet a gentle heart
Love in the Time of WiFi
@@jimsquire-chestnuts8381 good one hahaha
Good to listen to the review! I have ordered this book but it seems it will take some time to get it delivered! As u have read the book, can you say that Cholera and its social challenges were projected well enough to do justification to the title of the book?
No not at all - I've seen a feel individuals recommend reading this book during COVID, and it puzzles me why this book in particular would be recommended as it is essentially a tale of an enduring romance rather than a societal response to a pandemic. Maybe the idea is that even after many years, trials and changes, love will persist (even through Cholera)? You may have read it by now, but the reference to Cholera might be more stylistic rather than literal - I'm not sure how "catchy" the title sounds in the original language, but the english translation sounds pretty convincing and interesting. The reference to Cholera might be obvious and is going completely over my head so if you have thoughts on why Cholera, let me know.
@@DejanBasic There are some references about the Cholera outbreak in the book, and I think Dr. Urbino (Fermina Daza's husband) treated some Cholera patients - but this was only mentioned in passing.
@@DejanBasic , the word "Cholera" in Spanish is a word for both desire and Cholera. That is a poetic choice of Marquez
@@mazadancoseben4818 This is brilliant, thank you
@@DejanBasic , welcome
cold tea on a warm day ahh yes
This book is incredibly beautiful!
thanks very helpful
when ur phone went off HAHAHAHAHAH same here I get pissed off so much
Rookie errors hahaha !
La descripción que Marqués hace sobre los personajes, las situaciones, los lugares, pareciera que estamos en ese lugar y que somos cercanos a Florentino y Fermina. El amor en esta historia es impresionante, impresionante cuánto tiempo espera Florentino a Fermina.. Muy bella historia!
Thanks. Btw, I don’t think that is a pronunciation of cholera.
Yes this is embarrassing for me 😅 I was saying it wrong all alone and only realised after the fact
True...but doesn't matter cause I wasn't paying attention to what he was saying...he is so hot doesn't matter what he says!!
Nice
Imagine thinking the nobel prize is akin to 'turning a few heads' or winning a sports championship. Literally a lifetime achievement for a single person contributing to the progression of humanity. You cannot win it for 'a book', you win it for your body of work and the impact it has had.
Perhaps an NBA championship is something banal to you, but for many it is also the culmination of entire lifetimes of work, passion, tears, joy. Unfortunately, the Nobel is nothing more extravagant than any other entity handing out awards and at this point has lost all it's integrity.. Feynman and Satre turned them down for good reason
I completely disagree but I understand your opinion. But I’m also a scientist who thinks sports is a ridiculous overfunded waste of time and so that markedly colors my perspective, you’d be hard pressed to convince me otherwise 😂 certainly in science, it is highly valued even with all of its problems.
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That's romanticism not magical realism
It is magical realism, "realismo mágico" is literally the meaning
I mean it is classified as magical realism, but really we should not dismiss it as a postcolonial text.
I meant the description he gave matches Romanticism. Magical realism has mostly to do with blending and juxtoposition of real or unreal historical events which often leads to the breaking down of the barrier between the real events and those of fantasy.
@@nasershahkarami7828 Hi, yes, I’m completely aware of what the genre is comprised of. Nonetheless, I stand by my point that the work is technically classified as magical realism, due to its predecessor, 100 Years of Solitude, which truly is a work of magical realism. Although this one isn’t as embedded with those types of elements, it does have a few here and there, and I suppose it is labeled as such due to the implications of the former. Reducing this novel to mere romanticism is an injustice, as this novel is highly anti-romance. Moreso, I would lean heavily on calling it a postcolonial text in that it is calling us to question the various function of many influences in Columbia during the late 19th century and early 20th century.
It must be a matter of taste but for me love in the time of cholera was just like any other romantic novel. there were no significant devices being used and let's say the plot wasn't overtly dramatic or anything that you could call special, although there were very beautiful and noatlgic moments but any Jane Austen novel has a much better plot, characterisation and theme. but that's just my point of view I guess. so I can agree with you there as well.
I broke almost all of his novels but most of them leans more towards really storical events in the case of no one writes for colonel. The only truly magical relist work of his it says on the 100 Years of Solitude it is an astonishing work in one of the most true-to-life yet fantastic works I've ever known
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only people who felt really loved and love someone can relate much maybe you did with this book nice review 💜
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