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Memories of My Melancholy Whores
- By: Gabriel García Márquez
- Narrated by: Thom Rivera
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 272
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 235
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Story4 out of 5 stars 234
On the eve of his 90th birthday, a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit - he has purchased hundreds of women - he asks a madam for her assistance. The 14-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she can do little but sleep. Yet with this sleeping beauty at his side, it is he who awakens to a romance he has never known. Tender, knowing, and slyly comic, Memories of My Melancholy Whores is an exquisite addition to a master's work.
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4 out of 5 stars
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-the consolation you have when you can't have Love
- By Darwin8u on 09-16-21
- Memories of My Melancholy Whores
- By: Gabriel García Márquez
- Narrated by: Thom Rivera
Genius
Reviewed: 01-27-23
It is a bit presumptuous of me, an old man, to 'review' a work of this genius. I've read
'A hunded Years, and all his other novels and except for Faulkner and Tolstoy there is
no body in his class. As an almost 90 year old myself, I loved the old man's statement on
how the gentle instance causes him to get emotional unlike in his youth...year I know, a simple enuf
observation if one is a genius and can put that thought into context. What can I say
he is a genie a gift to mankind . Got bless him.
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