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| Memories of My Melancholy Whores | 
 enlarge | Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Publisher: Penguin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 31005
Media: Paperback
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.4
ISBN: 0141028734
EAN: 9780141028736
ASIN: 0141028734
Publication Date: August 2, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Slight shelf wear.
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 CHRONICLE OF A DECLINE FORETOLD December 30, 2006
5 out of 11 found this review helpful
What a disappointment. As others have said, this is second-rate Marquez and it isn't at all clear why he bothered to write it: it is thin, dull and lifeless. The set-up is wholly unbelievable, and it's sad to remember that this is the man who wrote one of the greatest love stories of all time.
 The memorable tale of an old man April 23, 2006
10 out of 16 found this review helpful
This short novel entirely written in the first person portrays a ninety-year old man in love. He is a modest column writer and he is not used to romantic feelings: "I have never gone to bed with a woman I didn't pay" he declares right at the beginning. And so he naturally makes his way to a brothel on his ninetieth birthday where a sleepy adolescent is expecting him and for whom he is going to have passionate feelings ... of an entire platonic nature!
Funny at times, the plot is not really fascinating. The way the narrator crosses the border between his meticulous life as a bachelor and that of a man obsessed with feverish amorous feelings is not really convincing although some descriptions are very aesthetic. The young woman's sleepy body, the narrator's moody behaviour or the juxtaposition of the real world and his erotic fantasies are among the strong points of this novel. The old man tries to convince the reader that rheumatism cannot weaken passionate longings. But the shadow of death is not far, neither is that of the dead: parents, friends and departed women. Although one may rejoice in the company of a young girl, it is only for a brief instant. The faint and sad music of old age, illness and death is ever to be heard....
 Timesless book! January 3, 2006
7 out of 13 found this review helpful
This is my second book by Marquez (first was One Hundred Years of Solitude).
This book is a master piece, gives a reality of growing old! Stages you pass to reach 90years old if ever at all. This piece of writing challenges the norms of human morality!
"Sex is a consolation of not having love"
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