Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Vintage International) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (ISBN:1400095948)

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		Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Vintage International)
	
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			Gabriel Garcia Marquez		
	
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							Tania
						
							few weeks ago						
Dirty Old Man.

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
Great Book!

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
Marquez is always perfect. Same style, same irony and same immortal attitude. Love it!

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
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							alvi
						
							few weeks ago						
In "Melancholy Whores", the "lover" is a man who has just turned ninety and falls in love with a 14 year old prostitute who he visits every night while she sleeps deeply (possibly drugged).
If you choose to put aside the creepy elements and focus on the romantic sentiment and poetic pedestal that Delgadina (the name the old man invents for his nameless...more
 In "Melancholy Whores", the "lover" is a man who has just turned ninety and falls in love with a 14 year old prostitute who he visits every night while she sleeps deeply (possibly drugged).
If you choose to put aside the creepy elements and focus on the romantic sentiment and poetic pedestal that Delgadina (the name the old man invents for his nameless "whore") is placed atop, the book is a very beautiful reflection on the need for love and the degradations of aging. If you can't put is aside, this is a story of a strange pedophilic attachment that certainly should not be romanticized.   hide

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
As marquez is one of the best authors of the contemporary world, i took up this book as an attempt at the vindication of the fact. I dint find anything very interesting or as the title suggests about lives of whores depicted or anything of that sort. Just the writing style and the monotony sometimes of that style prompted me for further reading of marquez (which finally was worth it after...more
 As marquez is one of the best authors of the contemporary world, i took up this book as an attempt at the vindication of the fact. I dint find anything very interesting or as the title suggests about lives of whores depicted or anything of that sort. Just the writing style and the monotony sometimes of that style prompted me for further reading of marquez (which finally was worth it after reading Love in times of cholera).
And Love in times of cholera has become one of my favourite books!   hide

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
Reminds me a lot of Nabokov's Lolita, though of course coming from a respected writer like Marquez it owes nothing to the book. (Also, if you've read Lolita, it's important to note that this is a much gentler book.) A very sweet story of nonagenarian love, of renewing your life in old age, and of the ability to fall in love without ever speaking. Not to be avoided, as it is a short...more
 Reminds me a lot of Nabokov's Lolita, though of course coming from a respected writer like Marquez it owes nothing to the book. (Also, if you've read Lolita, it's important to note that this is a much gentler book.) A very sweet story of nonagenarian love, of renewing your life in old age, and of the ability to fall in love without ever speaking. Not to be avoided, as it is a short 115 pages, very easy to understand, and can be easily read in a day. "I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love."   hide

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							Lola
						
							few weeks ago						
Very well written. Not the usual book I would have picked up.

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
It was interesting and very disturbing.

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
I have to say that I was really touched by this novel of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.  Of course L,amour au temps du cholÃ©ra and cent ans de colitude are deeper and bigger volumes, but still, Memoirs of my melancholy whores still reaches the author's usual standards.  I liked it in english, although I usually read Garcia's work in french, for it is closer to the original spanish.  

I recommend...more
 I have to say that I was really touched by this novel of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.  Of course L,amour au temps du cholÃ©ra and cent ans de colitude are deeper and bigger volumes, but still, Memoirs of my melancholy whores still reaches the author's usual standards.  I liked it in english, although I usually read Garcia's work in french, for it is closer to the original spanish.  

I recommend this book for people who are unfamiliar with Marquez and who may be experiencing such live passages as old age and the probability of death.

Last but not least, Memoirs of my melancholy whores still proves that Gabriel garcia Marquez can impress us, from his oldest work to this new born book.

-caro   hide

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