I like Garcia-Marquez for his magic surrealism, and there wasn't any here, unless the cat wasn't real. Fine. Take an artist on his terms, not mine. I didn't care for it.
There is a creepiness factor, in that our 90-year old protagonist tells us in the first line of his intention to sleep with a virgin. Instead (and I'm really not clear on if she lost her virginity in the course of the book), he 'falls in love,' albeit with a girl who's always asleep when he's there. In fact, he discovers he doesn't like her voice. Not my definition of love.
Romance over substance, in a very sexist world. Kind of yuck.
There is a creepiness factor, in that our 90-year old protagonist tells us in the first line of his intention to sleep with a virgin. Instead (and I'm really not clear on if she lost her virginity in the course of the book), he 'falls in love,' albeit with a girl who's always asleep when he's there. In fact, he discovers he doesn't like her voice. Not my definition of love.
Romance over substance, in a very sexist world. Kind of yuck.
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