This is the last day for "Love in the Time of Cholera". I am not finished with this selection, and probably will not finish it. I'm at page 170, so about half-way through.
I enjoy the writing style, I enjoy the plot, but this is the slowest read I have attempted in a long while. With diligent attention I can read somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 pages an hour of this book. I dont find the language particularly challenging, so I can't really explain why it is going so slowly.
At this point in the novel, I still don't see anything I think of as "magical". There's some commentary on the Web that suggests interpreting events in the novel as "magical" may be a cultural thing.
I haven't yet found anything in the novel I thought was odd or unapproachable due to my very protestant, very white upbringing.
Hundred Years of Solitude was a better novel in my opinion, though I actually think this is a fine novel as well.
I'm very interested to hear what others think of the novel at this evening's discussion.
On other topics, we have a couple of items on the agenda for this evening:
1. Should we impose a page limit?
2. Should we avoid books that are not available as e-books?
We have now read one European (British) author and one South American (Columbian) author. Is this working for everyone?
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