Love in the Time of Cholera half century between 1880 and 1930. The city's "steamy and sleepy streets, rat-infested sewers, old slave quarter, decaying colonial architecture, and multifarious inhabitants" are mentioned variously in the text and mingle amid the lives of the characters. Locations within the story include: Some critics choose to consider "Love in the Time of Cholera" as a sentimental story about the enduring power of true love. Others criticize this opinion as being too simple. García Márquez himself said in an interview, "you have to be careful not to fall into my trap." This is manifested by Ariza's excessively romantic attitude toward life,
Almost Like Being in Love (novel) Almost Like Being in Love (novel) Almost Like Being in Love is a 2004 gay-fiction romance novel by author Steve Kluger. Like his previous novel "Last Days of Summer", "Almost Like Being in Love" is an epistolary novel; the story is told primarily through diary entries, newspaper clippings, office documents, letters, e-mails, menus, post-it notes and checklists, with only minor reliance on narrative. Kluger uses experiences and people from his life as inspiration for his novels. The book centers around the relationship between two men, Travis and Craig, who meet and fall in love in 1978, during their senior year