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In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again. ... Read more

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Started off good.... but
This book infuzzed a love of reading in me, for the first 200 pages. Then I grew bored with the details and just wanted to know how the story ended.

The beginning is excellent, the middle and end however are left to be desired.

So Boring I Can't Even Get Through It...
I immediately realized within the first 10 pages that this is not my type of book. I found it extremely boring and couldn't even get halfway through it. Perhaps I went into it with the wrong notions of what it was about. I don't think the description on the back cover really explains it well.

Hated it!
I chose this book to read for a book discussion group. After reading the book I nixed the idea of having our club read it. I found it boring and pedantic. The title should be called "Confessions of a Stalker". There is a difference between love and obsession and this guy was clearly nuts. I suppose I could have plodded through it but I found the characters annoying and silly.

I got about halfway through and just had to stop. Life is just too short to read crappy books.

so hard to get through
I have always wanted to read this book, and when I finally had the chance, I was really disappointed.The story itself--the idea of the story--was really romantic and wonderful.Getting from the start to the end was the problem--it just dragged.It was truly difficult to get through it and I just didn't love it at all.It ended up being a tough read for me--I finished it only because I wanted to know how it would end, not because I was enjoying it.In the end, I sighed with relief that I was finally finished.

Love in the time of Cholera
Very well written. You can choose not to finish some books. This one you will want to know how it ends. ... Read more

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Cholera amongst us today
Raising my children in Central America when the sixth world cholera pandemic reached the shores of this continent heightened my awareness as to existence of this mysterious disease.My children would bring home their cholera awareness materials from school that emphasized hand washing and clean water.Later on, I researched an incident in 1852 when Ulysses S. Grant and the U.S. 4th Infantry were devastated by cholera when passing through Panama on their way to California.However, it wasn?t until I read Rosenberg?s book that I understood how horrible a death from cholera was and yet how easy it is nowadays to treat.Rosenbery brings out so many interesting aspects of the impact of cholera on public health and the fact that the disease has only been known in the Western world for a little over 200 years.Most people think cholera is biblical.The book is an easy read for a layman and too bad it appears to be mostly used as a text book in college.

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A Classic!
This book is truely a classic work of history.Although I also read it for a class (Medicine and Society in America), I recommend it to anyone with an interest in medicine, public health, religion, and general social history.In three parallel sections, the book relates the details of the 1832, 1849, and 1866 cholera epidemics.This structure results in some repetition but is needed to fully seen the connections/changes over time. It is extensively footnoted (I recommend you read these too - very interesting) and has a large bibliography... without seeming "overly academic."ENJOY.

A great medical history study
Although it was read in conjunction with an urban history class, I found this book to be very engaging and moving. Rosenberg's writing flows easily through a very disturbing subject. He sets up very fluid parallels betweenthe epidemic's appearance at all three major years: 1832, 1849, and 1866.Of special interest is the role of the NYC Metropolitan Board of Health incontrolling and defeating the epidemic.. I hope I didn't ruin the endingfor any interested readers: NYC is still a healthy city, despite outbreakslike the ones that Rosenberg identifies... ... Read more

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This excellent guide to Love in the Time of Cholera features a biography of the author, a full-length analysis of the novel, and a great deal more. If you're studying this novel, reading it for your book club, or if you simply want to know more about it, you'll find this guide informative, intelligent, and helpful. ... Read more

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Love in the Time of Cholera
This product of Continuum Contemporaries is a must read for those who are unfamiliar with García Márquez' style and thematics. Also, it prepares the reader with a good historical background -- Colombia at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth when cholera was rampant in the coastal areas of the country. My suggestion would be to read the novel and then read this work with the idea of rereading the novel and understanding it better for having read the background material. Any work by this author needs to be read and reread -- you get something new out of it every time!

Love in the Time of Cholera
The book, Love in the Time of Cholera, is about love and all its forms and all ages. Gabriel Garcia Marquez used a wide variety of characters in the love story of fermina and Floentino to show love and all its forms. Marquez blends poetry and visual descripions that are so visual that you feel that you are there.The book is a captivating and intriguing story of love.

Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza are in their teens when they fall passionately in love. Their love is unquestionable until she moves away and returns saying their love was an illusion. She moves on and accepts the proposal of a wealthy Doctor Juvenal Urbino. As they live in their separate worlds, Fermina lives the life of a wife and mother while Florentino hols on to the memory of waht they had together. In their years of separation, Florentino goes through his 622 affairs in which he will try to satisfy his lust and compensate his loss of Fermina. But no love is greater than Fermina's, as he pledged himself never to marry another. After the unexpected death of Dr.Urbino, he again pledged his love to Fermina after 51 years, 9 months, and 4 days.

One signficant moment was when Fermina returns and realizes that her love for Florentino was an illusion. She rejected him and told him to forget what they had together. This is important because whole book reflects around this moment as Florentino and Fermina lives their separate lives. Fermina moves on to her own separate world while Florentino dwells on that moment of rejection and vows that one day he will gain her love.

This book is captivating and I would recommend it to anyone who loves a good love story.

Useful and engaging
Just picked this up and am already planning to assign it to one of my classes on modern lit--that ideal book that explains what Marquez is up to without either oversimplifying or overcomplicating.Fahy distills the most important material from research around Marquez without forcing us to wade through information that would only be of interest to someone writing a dissertation; furthermore, his voice is lively and approachable in doing so.This book is enjoyable reading suited to a wide audience--I hope to see more similar books in this vein. ... Read more

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Cholera, although it can kill an adult through dehydration in half a day, is easily treated. Yet in 1992-93, some five hundred people died from cholera in the Orinoco Delta of eastern Venezuela. In some communities, a third of the adults died in a single night, as anthropologist Charles Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs, a Venezuelan public health physician, reveal in their frontline report. Why, they ask in this moving and thought-provoking account, did so many die near the end of the twentieth century from a bacterial infection associated with the premodern past?
It was evident that the number of deaths resulted not only from inadequacies in medical services but also from the failure of public health officials to inform residents that cholera was likely to arrive. Less evident were the ways that scientists, officials, and politicians connected representations of infectious diseases with images of social inequality. In Venezuela, cholera was racialized as officials used anthropological notions of "culture" in deflecting blame away from their institutions and onto the victims themselves. The disease, the space of the Orinoco Delta, and the "indigenous ethnic group" who suffered cholera all came to seem somehow synonymous.
One of the major threats to people's health worldwide is this deadly cycle of passing the blame. Carefully documenting how stigma, stories, and statistics circulate across borders, this first-rate ethnography demonstrates that the process undermines all the efforts of physicians and public health officials and at the same time contributes catastrophically to epidemics not only of cholera but also of tuberculosis, malaria, AIDS, and other killers. The authors have harnessed their own outrage over what took place during the epidemic and its aftermath in order to make clear the political and human stakes involved in the circulation of narratives, resources, and germs.
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The product of six years of collaborative research, this fine biography offers new interpretations of a pioneering figure in anesthesiology, epidemiology, medical cartography, and public health.It modifies the conventional rags to riches portrait of John Snow by synthesizing fresh information about his early life from archival research and recent studies.It explores the intellectual roots of his commitments to vegetarianism, temperance, and pure drinking water, first developed when he was a medical apprentice and assistant in the north of England.The authors argue that all of Snow's later contributions are traceable to the medical paradigm he imbibed as a medical student in London and put into practice early in his career as a clinician: that medicine as a science required the incorporation of recent developments in its collateral sciences--chiefly anatomy, chemistry, and physiology--in order to understand the causes of disease.Snow's theoretical breakthroughs in anesthesia were extensions of his experimental research in respiratory physiology and the properties of inhaled gases.Shortly thereafter, his understanding of gas laws led him to reject miasmatic explanations for the spread of cholera, and to develop an alternative theory in consonance with what was then known about chemistry and the physiology of digestion.Using all of Snow's writings, the authors follow him when working in his home laboratory, visiting patients throughout London, attending medical society meetings, and conducting studies during the cholera epidemics of 1849 and 1854.The result is a book that demythologizes some overly heroic views of Snow by providing a fairer measure of his actual contributions.It will have an impact not only on the understanding of the man but also on the history of epidemiology and medical science. ... Read more

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correction on price
I am not reviewing this book,but I believe you have an error in the price.Oxford's price is $49.95 not $59.95.The correction categories do not permit me to enter this information. ... Read more

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GradeSaver(TM) ClassicNotes are the most comprehensive study guides on the market, written by Harvard students for students! Longer, with more detailed summary and analysis sections and sample essays, ClassicNotes are the best choice for advanced students and educators.Each note includes:* An author biography* An in-depth chapter-by-chapter summary* A short summary* A character list and related descriptions* A list of themes* A glossary* Historical context* Two academic essays* 100 quiz questions to improve test taking skills! ... Read more

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This is a medical and social history of Italy's largest city during the cholera epidemics of 1884 and 1910-11. It explores the factors that exposed Naples to risk; it examines such popular responses as social hysteria, riots, and religiosity; and it traces therapeutic strategies. This book is the first extended study of cholera in modern Italy; it sets Naples in a comparative international framework and relates the disease to larger historical issues, such as the nature of liberal statecraft, the "southern question," mass emigration, organized crime, and the medical profession. ... Read more

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A graphic and immediate record of the response of New York City and its medical men to the catastrophe of a major cholera epidemic.The Cholera Bulletin was published thrice-weekly during the height of the epidemic and records not only the efforts of the city to provide medical care and charitable aid to the unemployed, to bury the dead and improve sanitation, but also brings to light the nature of medical thought at the time.This is a rare and important document of interest to the urban historian and student of social welfare as well as to those more particularly concerned with medicine and medical care. ... Read more

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Another stroke of genius......
One Hundred Years of Solitude is definitely my favorite book of all times.Since I considered I had read Gabo's masterpiece, I never got to reading Love in the Times of Cholera, until now.

A few days ago, I read Memoria de mis Putas Tristes, which came out about a week ago, and when writing a review, I thought too bad the book is not 900 pages long.Then, hungry for more divine prose and magic realism, I remembered Love in the Times of Cholera.I suddenly had 500 more pages of Gabo.

The book turns out to be a 50+ year long love story, superbly written as most of what Gabo has written.The prose grabs you and does not let you go until the very last line.

Every now and then, one reads a sentence in a book and wonders how much feeling, effort, expeience and luck it takes to word something so beautifully.This does not happen too often, and sometimes you go through numerous books without finding one of these, regardless of who the author is.Well, let me just say that there is one of theses magical sentences in just about every single page of Love in the Times of Cholera.The novel is like a bottle of excellent wine....each sip tastes better than the last one.This book will leave you with a sensation od deep, pleasant intoxication.

How does it compare to One Hundred Years?It's simply different.Even though time is probably the main character in both novels, while there's more magic in One Hundred Years, there's more love and passion in Love in the Times of Cholera.

I am left with the exact same feeling after reading every one of Gabo's boks:how the hell does he do it every time?

Don't miss out on the pleasure produced by this novel.

Magic Realism at its best !!!!
This is a love story.Yes. It describes with colorful and beautiful words a city that once was the center of the Spanish conquest, with Viceroys and nobility.Cartagena at the turn of the century, is only a shadow of this glorious past. But what makes this book unforgettable is the way you can see word by word, that the power of love is nothing without the element of destiny. A magnificent river, luxurious river ships, alligators sunbathing on the river banks, balloon rides and horse carriages. A fantastic story about all things long gone.

A Literary Monument
I read somewhere that the admirers of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (a novel that brought the Nobel Prize for Garcia in 1982) would be surprised to know that Gabriel Garcia Marquez has bettered it in the form of "Love in the Time of Cholera". Well, although I found the latter half of it a little cloggy, I was a great admirer of One Hundred Years of Solitude. But after reading Love in the Time of Cholera, I think it's not fair to compare as different works of fiction as these two novels are, and it won't do any good to Garcia as well.

The only thing common to these two novels, however, is the prose of Garcia. He weaves, with the dexterity of a master craftsman, small characters and trifle incidents into the vast fabric of the novels. Effortlessly moving from character to character and incident to incident, he provides small pegs and footholds to the reader so that he could ascend, like a rock-climber, to his colossal literary monuments. This is especially true for Love in the Time of Cholera, where the reader is provided with a spectacular finale and one feels indeed like setting foot at the summit of Mount Everest after reading the novel. This is by far the best ending of a novel that I have read so far.

There are dozens of important characters in Love in the Time of Cholera but I think the two most important protagonists are Love and Time. And both of them are so intricately interwoven together that sometimes it becomes difficult to tell which is which -- like two shrubs that run up the length of a tall tropical tree. The love of Florentino Ariza, a thin and shy boy, for the beautiful but whimsical Fermina Daza is unlike any in the literature. And in order to have her, our hero must overcome time (half a century!), her aloofness and more than 400 love affairs! I guess even Hercules would have given up in face of these obstacles.

Unlike many other great writers, Garcia has little inhibitions. He is not ashamed of hiding emotions or sugarcoating his ideas; he simply does not believe in euphemisms. You can see everything in bare, harsh light: scars, warts, blemishes, all. Reminds one of ... Life. ... Read more

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De jóvenes, Florentino Ariza y Fermina Daza se enamoran apasionadamente, pero Fermina eventualmente decide casarse con un médico rico y de muy buena familia. Florentino está anonadado, pero es un romántico. Su carrera en los negocios florece, y aunque sostiene 622 pequeños romances, su corazón todavía pertenece a Fermina. Cuando al fin el esposo de ellamuere, Florentino acude al funeral con toda intención. A los cincuenta años, nueve meses y cuatro días de haberle profesado amor a Fermina, lo hará una vez más.

Con sagacidad humorística y depurado estilo, García Márquez traza la historia excepcional de un amor que no ha sido correspondido por medio siglo. Aunque nunca parece estar propiamente contenido, el amor fluye a través de la novela de mil maneras –alegre, melancólico, enriquecedor, siempre sorprendente. ... Read more

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Good read in Spanish
I bought this because it was made into a movie and won a Nobel prize, and I had never heard of it.I surprized myself that my Spanish was adequate to read it without too much dictionary use, and really enjoyed the writing style.A story I would compare with Dr Zivago - a love over many years with some deceptions and tears.The author paints very clear pictures of the settings and how they change over time.He manages to maintain some sympathy for the principal character in spite of his many poor choices.

Never got it
Never got the product, got the worst feedback possible on my order, nest time will order bokks with any method but Amazon.I wanted it for a present and because of the delay and no feedback my opportunity was blow.

Un muy buen libro
Una historia muy simpática y refrescante. Te hace vivir una época de antaño gracias a la manera tan particular que tiene "EL Gabo" en su narrativa.
El eterno enamorado la considerara una hermosa historia de amor, mientras que una persona mas objetiva, podría describir a Florentino como una persona obsesionada.
No lo considero el mejor trabajo de Gabriel García Márquez, pero definitivamente es un muy buen libro.
La pasión con la que describe a cada personaje, hace que brote de ellos una magia particular que te hace quererlos, odiarlos, sentir pena y alegría por ellos, etc.
Gracias Gabriel García Márquez por haber creado una historia tan interesante.

Unmitigated Love: A Malady Even To Gods
This story highlights the hurldes that true love can overcome. And that when you are frank with yourself, there is nothing you cannot accomplish. Its a true test of your convictions, and is a story for all hopeless romantics. It showcases that two people can love each other to the point where nothing else matters...

Garcia Marquez es unico
Disfrute tanto de esta novela, que la volvi a leer pero en Ingles. Desde luego que la novela se saborea mejor en la hermosa lengua Española, pero la traduccion al Ingles no esta tan peor. No a todos les gusta el estilo de Garcia Marquez, pero lo que es a mi, su estilo me encanta. Es unico. Se han dado cuenta como el autor siempre se refiere a sus personajes por sus nombres y apellidos? (por ejemplo, nunca dice solamente el primer nombre; siempre este va acompañado de el apellido.) Que original, no? Porque le di solo 4 estrellas? Soy una amante de los clasicos, y no me gusta que este libro contine muchas cosas que no son edificantes. Un buen clasico (como War and Peace, de Tolstoy) no necesita vulgaridad ni malas palabras para dejar huella. ... Read more

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In 1831, an unknown, horrifying, and deadly disease from Asia swept across continental Europe and North America, killing millions and throwing the medical profession into confusion. A killer with little respect for class or wealth, cholera ravaged the squalid streets of Soho and rocked the great centers of Victorian power. In this gripping book, Sandra Hempel tells the story of John Snow, a reclusive doctor without money or social position, who--alone and unrecognized--had the genius to look beyond the conventional wisdom of his day and uncover the truth behind the pandemic. She describes how Snow discovered that cholera was spread through drinking water and how this subsequently laid the foundations for the modern, scientific investigation of today's fatal plagues.
A dramatic account with a colorful cast of characters, The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump features diversions into fascinating facets of medical and social history, such as Snow's tending of Queen Victoria in childbirth, Dutch microbiologist Leeuwenhoek's deliberate breeding of lice in his socks, Dickensian children's farms, and riotous nineteenth-century anesthesia parties. An afterword discusses the new threat of infectious diseases--including malaria, yellow fever, and cholera--with today's global warming.
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One of the best books I have read
Interesting, informative, with a lot of examples of problems that could relate to the present day.For example, the inability of the medical science board to look at evidence presented by John Snow.Basically, the only thing they could see was the miasma theory.Unfortunately, we have similar problems going on today where scientists cannot see beyond the current dogma.

Good Book About John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera
Broad Street Pump is a good book about how the mystery of the Cholera outbreaks was solved by a determined doctor.


During the 19th Century, there were 3 great pandemics that killed large numbers of people in Asia & Europe. The primary killer was cholera, a disease for which there was no known cure.

One physician who sought a cure for cholera was John Snow who was a disciplined individual who suffered from the disdain of the British medical profession. Snow's research led him to the conclusion that cholera's spread was through contaminated drinking water.

In Snow's "grand experiment" he identified a contaminated pump and disabled it and by doing so began the defeat of the disease in London. Snow's work also furthered the development of germ theory and helped debunk the widely held theory of spontaneous generation of diseases.

This is a good book.

Good, but a little scattered
I generally liked this book, which does a nice job of telling the story of the cholera epidemics in Britain in the 1800s and John Snow's role in solving the mystery of how cholera is transmitted.However, this book is not just about John Snow's work --- there are many tangents to examine other prominent historical figures of the time, some of which I found forced and distracting, and the afterward on global climate change seemed like a hasty afterthought.Still, if you are interested in the origins of modern epidemiology you will like this book. ... Read more

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Research on cholera has contributed both to knowledge of theepidemic in particular, and to a broader understanding of thefundamental waysin which cells communicate with each other. Thisvolume presentscurrent knowledge in historical perspective to enablethepractitioner to treat cholera in a more effective manner, and toprovide a comprehensive review for the researcher. ... Read more

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Only in recent years has it been revealed that V. cholerae is anormal inhabitant of esturine and riverine waters. This means thateven if the disease can be eliminated from human population byvaccines etc. the vibrio will continue to survive independently inthe environment. It is likely that the environment is the source ofepidemic strains. This is the first book to focus on the implicationof these discoveries. ... Read more

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Presents the latest molecular studies of virulence, colonization, generegulation, and the O1 antigen. Gives an in-depth and analytical approachto the epidemiology of cholera that includes outbreak investigations,case-control studies, and surveillance functions. Describes the molecularapproach to epidemiologic problems and questions. Tracks the global spread of cholera by genetically defining individual strains. Addresses possibleintervention and prevention strategies, including the latest vaccines, and their public health relevance. ... Read more

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Estudios sobre Vibrio cholerae
El libro me parece que está muy completo principalmente en lo que corresponde a las bases microbiológicas de Vibrio cholerae,nos un bastante información de lo que es la bacteria, la enfermedad y toda la informaciónque se necesita saber acerca de ellas. ... Read more

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The official illustrated companion to the first English-language adaptation of a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez, adapted for the screen by Academy Award® winner Ronald Harwood (The Pianist) and directed by Mike Newell (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire).

This is the official, full-color companion book to the lavish adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez's beloved novel, the epic love story of a man who waits over fifty years for the love of his life amid the lush, romantic backdrop of early-twentieth-century South America. Produced by Scott Steindorff of Stone Village Pictures, this film is the first major foreign production shot in the scenic city of Cartagena, Colombia. This beautiful volume features more than 120 movie stills, costume designs, and production materials, with an introduction by director Mike Newell, as well as excerpts from the script and the novel, and commentary from the filmmakers. 120 color photos. ... Read more