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 ...
  
  











  



  
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"
  
  











  



  
Everything & Nothing5 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
  
  











  



  
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 ...
  
  











  



  
Borges: Selected Non-Fictions13 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
  
  











  



  
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov19 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
  
  











  



  
Borges: Selected Poems11 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
  
  











  



  
Borges: Collected Fictions67 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
  
  











  



  
Collected Stories11 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
  
  











  



  
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
  
  











  



  
Lolita449 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
  
  











  



  
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
  
  











  



  
The Master and Margarita341 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!
  
  











  



  
Borges: Collected Fictions67 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
  
  











  



  
Borges: Selected Poems11 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
  
  











  



  
Lolita449 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
  
  











  



  
Collected Stories11 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
  
  











  



  
Borges: Selected Non-Fictions13 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
  
  











  



  
Everything & Nothing5 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
  
  











  



  
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 ...