Uneven ‘Cholera' offers numerous delights

There are some novels that can't make an easy transition from the page to the screen. I would venture that Gabriel Garcia Marquez's prize-winning "Love in the Time of Cholera" belongs in that category.

About a love that transcends time and place, the story is the stuff that dreams are made of, complete with sweet yearning, brief joy, prolonged misery and, ultimately, grand fulfillment - all this played out in the midst of periodic plagues of cholera, the story's ever-present reminder of the end of things.<span> </span>