Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia MarquezPublisher: RandomHouse 2005
Hardcover 115 pages
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a Nobel prize winning author. He has written many books that are very, very good. Memories of My Melancholy Whores just doesn't happen to be one of them. The entire premise, a man in his ninetieth year decides to spend what little money he has on a adolescent virgin prostitute, only to fall in love with said prostitute, is one that does not appeal to me. I know that I should be looking deeper into the story for meaning, to see that life and love can surprise anyone, but I just can't find any sympathy for the ninety year old lech. To spend an entire lifetime paying for sex and then to seek a small girl as the culmination of ninety years of whoring just can not appeal to me. Maybe this is one of those reads I will have to try again... maybe when I'm ninety.
