Love in the Time of Cholera

I love Gabriel García Márquez.  Easy to read he's not, but he's easily one of the most eloquent writers I've seen.  The man could write about the most grotesque subjects, and they could be beautiful.

I definitely enjoyed this book, even though it took me 2 months to finish.  While there were definitely odd and uncomfortable scenes (a 70 year old bedding a 13 year old is a bit much for me), I couldn't help but be mesmerized.  

"Florentino Arizo stated it another way: 'The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not."  He distrusted those who did not: when they strayed from the straight and narrow, it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.  Those who did it often, on the other hand, lived for that alone. "  p. 183

"Old people, with other old people, are not so old."  p. 312