The Great Gatsby tells the love story of the rich Jay Gatsby and the childish, wealthy Daisy Buchannan. Set in the Jazz Age following World War One, it chronicles the attitudes of the new arising society. After five years, Gatsby finds the chance of accomplishing his dream: winning back his old lover Daisy, with the [...]
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The Great Gatsby and the 1974 movie
Posted in book review, books, movie review, movies, tagged American literature, book review, Fitzgerald, garcia marquez, Jazz Age, love in the time of cholera, The Great Gatsby on July 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Memories of My Melancholy Whores – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Posted in book review, tagged garcia marquez, Nobel, Nobel laureates, novella, short story on May 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Memories of my Melancholy Whores is an interesting narrative by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It still contained Marquez’s dry wit and humor. I liked the way the main character’s misery, loneliness and agony was depicted: “…I’m ugly, shy, and anachronistic…” Marquez’s characters are very complex, and he has a way of of giving you more insight [...]
Living to tell the tale – Gabriel García Márquez
Posted in book review, tagged autobiography, garcia marquez, memoir, Nobel laureates on March 14, 2009 | 4 Comments »
In Marquez’s detailed 2003 memoir, Living to tell the Tale, he recounts the details of his life as a struggling writer and journalist, until the day he proposed to his wife. The book begins when the author’s mother, after several years, visits her poverty-stricken son to ask him to accompany her back to his hometown, [...]
A new biography of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Posted in books, tagged biography, book news, garcia marquez on March 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I have just discovered that a biography of Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Gerald Martin is going to be released in May 2009. The book is called Gabriel García Márquez: A Life. The book consists of 672 pages and it is the first biography of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I’ll certainly buy this book once it comes [...]
Memorable moments from Love in the Time of Cholera
Posted in books, tagged garcia marquez, love in the time of cholera, memorable parts, Nobel laureates on January 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Here I’d like to share with you some memorable parts I came across from Love in the Time of Cholera (Garcia Marquez) which I’ll always treasure: It was fortunate that after so much governmental instability because of so many superimposed civil wars, academic standards were less selective that they had been, and there was a [...]
Love in the Time of Cholera
Posted in book review, tagged garcia marquez, love, Nobel laureates, wit on December 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Buy the book at Amazon After impatiently reading the last pages, I’ve finally finished Love in the Time of Cholera. The story begins with the accidental death of Dr. Juvenal Urbino, the husband of a woman named Fermina Daza.Read my review of One Hundred Years of Solitude, by the same author. Then it switches [...]
One Hundred years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Posted in book review, tagged garcia marquez, Nobel laureates, wit on October 8, 2008 | 19 Comments »
Today I have accomplished a great achievement – I’ve finished reading One Hundred Years of Solitude, a novella by the noted Colombian author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who has written other great works including Chronicle of a Death Foretold – which I’ve already read and appreciated, and Love in the Time of Cholera. I found One [...]
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