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One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) 55 reviews Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006
Hater of Magic
+ Garcia Marquez is great! + Excellent, but not typical of Marquez.
I knew I would hate the book. I can't stand magic, fantasy books or huge sprawling books. The short elegant novel is for me. But I thought I'd just try a few pages. A day later, my work copletely ignored, I emerged exhausted but exilerated. Yet, this is one of the greatest books I've ever read ...
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The Aleph and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) 8 reviews Jorge Luis Borges
Penguin Classics, 2004
Maker of Stories
+ The path you are to take is endless + Interesting collection of ideas + Borges and the 'Aleph"
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Everything & Nothing 5 reviews Jorge Luis Borges, Jorge Borges, ...
New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1999
100th anniversary of Borges' birth
+ the stone and the shell + A Finely Pointed Look at Borges + The riddle of multiplicity and personal identity
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Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (New Directions Paperbook, 186) 40 reviews Jorge Luis Borges
New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1964
Writings of a great reader
+ Rod Sterling on Steroids + Mystical, cosmopolitan, multi-layered
In "How To Read a Book" Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren describe the fourth level of reading. Synoptical reading challenges the reader who, having carefully and thoroughly understood several individual works, strives to hear the conversation of their ensemble. "Labyrinths" brings us the ...
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Borges: Selected Non-Fictions 13 reviews Jorge Luis Borges
Penguin, 2000
A True Lover of Books
+ Like Always, No surprises, Borges is the man. + The supreme chef of Literary-Philosophical Delicacies + What a great and most interesting writer
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The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov 19 reviews Vladimir Nabokov
Vintage, 1996
Wondrous
+ Only after the food of the Gods has been sampled the epicurean is born + Gold Standard for Short Stories + There's nothing like a good Nabokov story + eloquence comes wrapped best in brevity
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Borges: Selected Poems 11 reviews Jorge Luis Borges
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2000
This book is a treasure.
+ Best bilingual Borges poetry book ever! + The poet Borges less + Worth the time, very translatable poet + Borges shines, translations are uneven
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Borges: Collected Fictions 67 reviews Jorge Luis Borges
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999
A book you and your doppelganger will both enjoy
+ Intelligent fiction - makes you think + The path you are to take is endless... + The Greatest Collection + Amazing deal
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Collected Stories 11 reviews Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999
Stories by a Master
+ Incredible, as always! + Highly Recommend This Short Story Collection: Good Reading. + Enchantingly Surreal
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The Autumn of the Patriarch (P.S.) 38 reviews Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006
Gabo's prose masterpiece
+ Marquez at his best - a masterpiece + A universal masterpiece + An Epic Latin-American Poem
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Lolita 449 reviews Vladimir Nabokov
Vintage, 1989
A road movie of the mind
+ Beautiful writing confronts crude subject matter--A masterpiece + Upends your preconceptions and prejudices + Which book did you read? + The Most Beautiful Novel Ever Written
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The Book of Imaginary Beings (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) 11 reviews Jorge Luis Borges
Penguin Classics, 2006
Modern Day Bestiary
+ One of the books I'd take with me if I went to a little shack in the woods to declare war on industrial capitalism. + Fantastic reference book on Imaginary Beings + Bestiary of the imagination + Great Addition to a Grand Tradition
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The Master and Margarita 341 reviews Mikhail Bulgakov
Vintage, 1996
A GIFT FROM THE GRAVE
+ "a liberating, exuberant social and political satire (Moscow) combined with a profound moral and political allegory (Jerusalem); + seductive masterpiece + The Devil Went Down to Moscow + READ THIS!
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Borges: Collected Fictions 67 reviews Jorge Luis Borges
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999
A book you and your doppelganger will both enjoy
+ Intelligent fiction - makes you think + The path you are to take is endless... + The Greatest Collection + Amazing deal
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Borges: Selected Poems 11 reviews Jorge Luis Borges
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2000
This book is a treasure.
+ Best bilingual Borges poetry book ever! + The poet Borges less + Worth the time, very translatable poet + Borges shines, translations are uneven
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Lolita 449 reviews Vladimir Nabokov
Vintage, 1989
A road movie of the mind
+ Beautiful writing confronts crude subject matter--A masterpiece + Upends your preconceptions and prejudices + Which book did you read? + The Most Beautiful Novel Ever Written
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Collected Stories 11 reviews Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999
Stories by a Master
+ Incredible, as always! + Highly Recommend This Short Story Collection: Good Reading. + Enchantingly Surreal
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Borges: Selected Non-Fictions 13 reviews Jorge Luis Borges
Penguin, 2000
A True Lover of Books
+ Like Always, No surprises, Borges is the man. + The supreme chef of Literary-Philosophical Delicacies + What a great and most interesting writer
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Everything & Nothing 5 reviews Jorge Luis Borges, Jorge Borges, ...
New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1999
100th anniversary of Borges' birth
+ the stone and the shell + A Finely Pointed Look at Borges + The riddle of multiplicity and personal identity
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Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (New Directions Paperbook, 186) 40 reviews Jorge Luis Borges
New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1964
Writings of a great reader
+ Rod Sterling on Steroids + Mystical, cosmopolitan, multi-layered
In "How To Read a Book" Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren describe the fourth level of reading. Synoptical reading challenges the reader who, having carefully and thoroughly understood several individual works, strives to hear the conversation of their ensemble. "Labyrinths" brings us the ...
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