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    <body><![CDATA[The review I wrote for amazon.<br/><br/>A curious and lovely book<br/><br/>In the US, we understand sexy but we struggle with the erotic. We read the body like we read the newspaper, by habit; with a glance. Our real failure in love is our failure to take our time. It's not in our nature to wait...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11111050">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.&quot; So begins Memories of My Melancholy Whores, and it becomes even more unlikely as the novel unfolds. This slim volume contains the story of the sad life of an unnamed, only slight...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6527287">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a hard book to rate.  It is beautifully written (translated by Edith Grossman), and the characters are wonderfully drawn.  However, it is about a 90-year-old (one assumes Marquez) who wakes up on his 90th birthday and wants to have a sex with a 14-year-old virgin.  His old friend, the madam,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41489002">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gabriel Garcia Marquez writes beautifully. Many paragraphs throughout his works can be easily mistaken for poetry, as they contain language so vivid and colorful that it inspires even the most disinterested reader. MEMORIES OF MY MELANCHOLY WHORES is Marquez's first piece of fiction in ten years, ye...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6121302">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Memoria de mis putas tristes...I LOVE Gabriel García Marquez. He weaves his magical realism right into your brain and it's like I was peeking in through a window rather than reading.  <br/><br/>I've read a few not so good reviews of this novella and they cannot be more wrong.  Yes, Gabo's intrica...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3261542">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book, but not as much as One Hundred Years of Solitude, the first Marquez book I ever read and by far and away my favorite. I really enjoyed the magical realism of that book, but this was just a really good story with really compelling characters. <br/>I think the reason I couldn't g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1092089">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a poetic quick read and a sweet love story of an aging man who refuses to succumb to the expectations of his old age and instead retells his life as a fun-loving yet devoted john who finally experiences love with the purest of all, a virgin whore.<br/><br/>i'd like to think i can enjoy fiction wri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30309251">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[To enjoy this book you have to enter the mind and world of this 90 year old man, living in the last years of his life in poverty in the once grand decaying house of his youth.  His career never rose above second-rate reporter, he never married and never even fell in love. His personal relationships ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54624663">more...</a>]]></body>
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