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korrick 's review for:
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
by Gabriel García Márquez
Okaaay, 3.5 stars out of five, all because I love Gabriel Garcia Marquez's prose and the last pages made me happy. For this story you really need to get used to the massive gap between the ages of the respective romantic parties, otherwise you'll hate every word of it. Ignoring that, it is the tale of a man on his last legs whose life without uniqueness, success, or love chooses to reduce him to the state of not second infancy, but second first crush. And this all a result of his desire for a pure maiden, the last of a long line of melancholy whores, weighted down by the price of their bodies paid to them and the price they pay to their bodies. Who would've thought. Anyways, he's so doddering and helpless that you can't help cheering him on, especially when he fails so many times in the fulfillment of his initial goal out of fear and puppy love. Not the author's best, but still worth a read.