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Melancholy whores lol

Vignesh wrote: "Melancholy whores lol"

Yes, it certainly invites a second take. Melodically, it flows fast with alliteration and then comes full stop with "whores." A bit of poetry there.

Lisa wrote: "I've known some "whores" in my last 25 years. Funny thing is that they are like everyone I've ever known. Same hopes, and fears. Mostly, they ended up there because they were the same as me..and yo..."

Thanks for the comment, Lisa. I appreciate your insight and perspective. Interesting thing about this book (view spoiler)[is that the "whore" in question doesn't actually have sex (hide spoiler)].

I loved the ending. I thought it was uplifting, a new world of sunshine on an old man. We all like books! Like chocolates. I always hope someone likes the orange creams and hard toffees.

Petra-X wrote: "I loved the ending. I thought it was uplifting, a new world of sunshine on an old man. We all like books! Like chocolates. I always hope someone likes the orange creams and hard toffees."

I'm happy to hear that, Petra-X! Glad the ending worked for you. It just wasn't my cup of tea... or type of chocolate, as you say. I, for one, love caramel and milk chocolate but hate dark chocolate and wafers 🍫😁👍

That title though 🤣

Kon wrote: "That title though 🤣"

It's certainly provocative :)

Lisa wrote: "I've known some "whores" in my last 25 years. Funny thing is that they are like everyone I've ever known. Same hopes, and fears. Mostly, they ended up there because they were the same as me..and yo..."

Lisa, that is brilliant. Society is cruel to them, people don't treat them as human beings, and it's all utterly unfair. We need more people like you.

Lisa is keeping it 💯. I wish I got paid for it haha.

Kon wrote: "Lisa is keeping it 💯. I wish I got paid for it haha."

Or at least tipped 😉

LMAOO I SEE YOU JAYSON 👀👀👀

aurora *ੈ✩‧₊˚ wrote: "LMAOO I SEE YOU JAYSON 👀👀👀"

Hmmm.

Miguel wrote: "Hmmm."

"Memories of My Melancholy Whores"... Hmmm... That title makes me like, " Seriously? LOL"

Parmida wrote: ""Memories of My Melancholy Whores"... Hmmm... That title makes me like, " Seriously? LOL""

Well, he's a Nobel Prize winner, so I'm sure he can get away with a lot Lol. Plus it might lose something in the translation, I'm not fluent enough in Spanish to be able to tell :)

Are you planning to read another books by Gabriel García Márquez to see if you'd like them better?

Patricia wrote: "Are you planning to read another books by Gabriel García Márquez to see if you'd like them better?"

Eventually. I do own copies of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude, but I haven't gotten to them yet. Especially with longer books, I need to be in the right mood for them.

Jayson wrote: "Patricia wrote: "Are you planning to read another books by Gabriel García Márquez to see if you'd like them better?"

Eventually. I do own copies of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Year..."

Yes well, i read some reviews and many said his books are kind of hard to read, i'm afraid i wouldn't understand all of the contents but i put his books (especially One Hundred Years of Solitude) on my 'books-to-read-before-you-die' list because he is an essential writer but i see you'll probably read and enjoy them just fine:) (when you're in the right mood ofc)

Patricia wrote: "Jayson wrote: "Patricia wrote: "Are you planning to read another books by Gabriel García Márquez to see if you'd like them better?"

Eventually. I do own copies of Love in the Time of Cholera and O..."

For me, literary fiction in general often requires the stars to align for me to be in a right mood for it :)

Isn't "good %77" a C+ instead of a B+? :D

Yomna wrote: "Isn't "good %77" a C+ instead of a B+? :D"

No, not in Canada. In Canada, 77% is a B+, not a C+. Generally speaking, percentages are 10-points lower than the US for the same letter grade. Not everyone grades American :)

It's Egypt not America, but maybe the Americans managed to make everyone grades American :]

Yomna wrote: "It's Egypt not America, but maybe the Americans managed to make everyone grades American :]"

That's my guess. I highly doubt America based its school grading on Egypt's, though the reverse is probably the case.

Haha yeah, i meant the reverse.. American educational systems are everywhere

Yomna wrote: "Haha yeah, i meant the reverse.. American educational systems are everywhere"

Yes, that's only to be expected. Though, its grading system isn't particularly widespread. Different areas of the world determine what is or isn't a passing percentage based on local norms and expectations.

Really? I didn't know that, since the English-speaking world's education is considered the best (like their universities ranking for example), especially the American..

Yomna wrote: "Really? I didn't know that, since the English-speaking world's education is considered the best (like their universities ranking for example), especially the American.."

Well, America's sort of an outlier since practically all other English-speaking countries are British Commonwealth nations. America doesn't use the metric system, for example. Canada's funny because it's highly influenced by America, hence the adoption of an A-F grading system, but because it's a metric country, we round-up a pass at 50%.

The grading system was different years ago in Egypt. But now, they apply the US system (or at least in public/national universities).
And yeah, the British Commonwealth nations are so different with many other grading systems..

Yomna wrote: "The grading system was different years ago in Egypt. But now, they apply the US system (or at least in public/national universities).
And yeah, the British Commonwealth nations are so different wi..."

It makes sense that they only recently adopted the American system. It's not as if the Americans had too much historical influence over Egypt, and probably took the space as British global influence has waned.

Yeah, you are right.
America may have not had historical influence over Egypt, but the Egyptian educational system is also recent.
So, Almost all of the universities have opened their doors in the 20th century. And the American university preceded them all.

Yomna wrote: "Yeah, you are right.
America may have not had historical influence over Egypt, but the Egyptian educational system is also recent.
So, Almost all of the universities have opened their doors in the ..."

American influence did dominate the latter 20th century, so it makes sense that newly-established Egyptian education would use them as a pattern. And it's not like the British had enough of a hold on Egypt for a long enough time during the protectorate to firmly establish institutions.

It's true, that American influence in the region started in the late 20th century. Wasn't almost a century or half a century long enough for the British?
Before the American influence over Egyptian education, there was Europe. Whether from Egyptians who got their degrees from Europe or Europeans (England or France), but I have no idea how far that influence was.

Yomna wrote: "It's true, that American influence in the region started in the late 20th century. Wasn't almost a century or half a century long enough for the British?
Before the American influence over Egyptian..."

I don't know that the British influence over Egypt was much more than a military one. Up until WWI, Egpyt was still nominally part of the Ottoman Empire, and after that I think the British Empire was well into its decline, and was not in the business of officially acquiring new dominions. So, I would assume that any cultural influence over educational institutions never had all that much of a foothold.

Yeah, but how are you supposed to keep the military reigning without interfering? with other aspects?
Anyway, before, the education and Egyptian mentality was still religious/Islamic. I don't how exactly the educational institutions were established, but all I know that the intellectual elite who initiated the process had their education from Europe. That was even before the 20th century. And sometimes they brought professionals from Europe for that matter.
I think the cultural influences don't have to be intentional, and the Ottoman Empire declined before the British one.
I agree, but you didn't even have institutions. Any tiny influence will have a real impact.

Yomna wrote: "Yeah, but how are you supposed to keep the military reigning without interfering? with other aspects?
Anyway, before, the education and Egyptian mentality was still religious/Islamic. I don't how ..."

Well, everywhere from Africa to Japan seemed to be influenced and actively adopting European practices during the 19th and early-20th centuries, even without sustained contact, so that Egypt would do likewise isn't itself unusual. Like you, I don't know enough specifically about the history of Egyptian education to comment further.