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... Matute Celebration in the Northwest**
Miguel de Unamuno San Manuel Bueno, Martir**
Argentina: Jorge Luis Borges Labyrinths***
Chile:
Luis Sepulveda The Name of a Bullfighter***, Un viejo que leia novelas de amor***, Diario de un killer sentimental***
Isabel Allende Portrait ... ... Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, who is definitely now my favorite fiction writer of all time. (I know you have his Labyrinths, BJ; what did you think of it?)
Total now stands at 127. Not too shabby for early October, I suppose. ... Bulgakov
404. Everything That Rises Must Converge Flannery O’Connor
431. A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
435. Labyrinths Jorge Luis Borges
444. Solaris Stanislaw Lem
461. Billiards at Half-Past Nine Heinrich Böll
473. The Once and Future King T.H. White
481. The Manila R ... Do you think she might like short stories? How about a collection of Borges. Labyrinths, maybe. Do you think his quirkiness might tap her imagination?
If she likes adventure stories about dogs (and what young girl doesn't) try her out on White Fang or Call of the Wild.
I have no clue ... Water for Chocolate
1. Autumn of the Patriarch, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2. Labyrinths, Jorge Luis Borges
3. The Moor's Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
4. Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
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7. ... Nor is it nearly as violent as most of his other stuff. It's a truly fascinating portrait of dirt-poor Knoxville, TN
-Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges---There's really nothing else quite like Borges. Some of the best short fiction anybody has ever written.
-At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Br ... ^ I agree. I found the start of Labyrinths difficult. It is interesting how many times he is mentioned in books by other Argentine authors. 6> Carlos, how are you finding Turing's Delirium? It sounds kind of intriguing...
I've just escaped from Borges's Labyrinths (including a fantastic essay on what it means to be an Argentine writer) which have taken me all over the world and back, and have been spending some time in Desperance, ... I have just finished reading Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges. I think I would have enjoyed this more if there had been a crib with the text. I am not well read enough to understand some of the allusions Borge makes. However, I admire his knowledge and his skill of incorporating that into his ... 111. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges. I think I would have enjoyed this more if there had been a crib with the text. I am not well read enough to understand some of the allusions Borge makes. However, I admire his knowledge and his skill of incorporating that into his stories and essays. Lost in Labyrinths in Argentina and also having a That Summer in Eagle Street in London.
Edited for typo. Still working my way through Labyrinths in Argentina and about to see The Shape of Water and The Snack Thief in Sicily with Inspector Salvo Montalbano, both by Andrea Camillera. Still in Argentina with Labyrinths. After a brief visit to the States to The Murder Artist by John Case I am now experiencing WWII with a community of Londoners, with Harry Bowling's Backstreet Child. Still lost in the Labyrinths of Argentina. Also in Wales with Sharon Kay Penman's Falls the Shadow. In Argentina lost in Labyrinths with Jorge Luis Borges. Thank you all. I can now read whatever I like. Want to catch up on my global reading so have started Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges which is quite challenging so I think I shall read something lighter in tandem, maybe some chick-lit.
Good luck to all of you still doing the challenge. I ... ... about middle eastern Christianity and how it has fared over the years. I'm also all over the place wandering about Borges's Labyrinths. ... is his wonderful account of his travels through present-day Byzantium. I am loving it.
I'm also dipping into Borges' Labyrinths and enjoying it but finding that (shock, horror) I think I prefer Andrew Hurley's translations to those of Yates & Irby. I just semi-accidentally bought Borges: ... ... Falcon
The Thin Man
You either enjoy noir or you don't. If you do, these are all amazing.
Borges
Ficciones
Labyrinths
Hell Yeah.
Flann O'Brien
At Swim-Two-Birds
The Third Policeman
I love him. Statistically speaking, you probably won't. But then there's the chance ... ... head:
The Holy Bible
Lazarillo de Tormes
Don Quixote
The Brothers Karamazov
Moby Dick
The Golden Bowl
Labyrinths
Grapes of Wrath
Death of a Salesman
Lolita
Keep in mind, this is off the top of my head. It is impossible to create a top ten list worth its salt on ... The illustrations for Labyrinths are appropriate but I wasn't overwhelmed by them. I would have preferred something more in the style of Diego Rivera. My main gripe is that I really don't like the book's format - it's 11 x 6 - and I find tall but narrow books sit uneasily on the shelf in the ... ... you'll love Twilight".
"If you liked Civilization and its Discontent, you'll love Twilight".
"If you liked Labyrinths, you'll love Twilight".
"If you liked Goodnight Gorilla, you'll love Twilight".
... (and sometimes in a reasonably objective sense, e.g. they're unexpurgated). I was thrilled to get a beautiful copy of Labyrinths in a fabulous translation, but often it just seems to be the cheapest, rather than the best.
So: The Man Without Qualities, The Tale of Genji, Journey to the ... ... your new books arrive, Second Hand sits on a shelf in sight of where I am typing this, next to The Road to Wellville, Labyrinths, Black Swan Green and The Island of the Day Before... not bad company. 14. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges - I'd never read any Borges before. It was pretty much amazing; only a couple stories fell flat for me (and they might do better on a reread some day) but so many of them were fascinating. I guess I should admit that I skipped most of the "Essays" section ... ... year?
The End of Faith by Sam Harris
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
It's a tie between Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges and Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
Skin Folk. It's ... ... I have rarely seen before.
Argentina:
After my mini-marathon through Argentinian literature I have replaced Borges Labyrinths by Winter Quarters by Osvaldo Soriano. Again, both books are good, but Soriano's had black humour and emotional punch aplenty, and was probably my pick of ... ... William is pretty much wrong about everything, but they both reach the same end point. There is a Borges story in Labyrinths in which a detective follows a trail based on hints and symbols from the Kabbalah. When he reaches the end he realises that he has interpreted everything wrongly, ... ... blurring of truth and fiction, his attempts to disorientate the reader) but didn't really do it for me either. I like Labyrinths, but even that didn't blow me away. My advice would be to read Umberto Eco, who is self-consciously Borge-esque, but, in my opinion, writes better books. ... mentioned Borges yet?! The man was a genius. I read Ficciones last year and loved it, and am just about to start on Labyrinths (which has quite a lot of overlap, but hey, who cares?!) I think favourite was maybe Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius. Just brilliant. ... when I know what is going to happen in every detail, having a good memory has this disadvantage. However, I would list Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges, as the stories are short and clever, and often deep, which make it good for going back and dipping into. Also, I would list the Golden Bo ... ... in them to set them apart from other books more than such as the binding for example, (which are also very nice). In Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges the illustrations are glossy and in colour and of a really terrific quality. In the Charterhouse of Parma they more akin to woodcuts, and ... ... Excellent Women is a truly wonderful edition! I love it :-) I'm also quite excited about reading my (sale! £9.95!) Folio Labyrinths, by Borges. A quick flip through shows illustrations which I think will complement the text very nicely. 182. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein, 1968
183. Girl With Green Eyes by Edna O'Brien, 1980's
184. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges, 1970
185. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, 1970
186. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, 1970, 2009
187. A Clockwork Orange by Ant ... I'm looking forward to the indulgence of reading Labyrinths by Borges, which should be arriving just in time hopefully. I'm also trying to get hold of one or two books by female writers: Heaven of Drums by Ana Gloria Moya and possibly one by Alicia Borinsky, although I'm worried her ... ... a Canadian citizen now, Manguel was born in Argentina.
And then the usual compliment of Jorge Luis Borges
Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
Borges: Collected Fictions ... Diario de Andrés Fava, Historias de cronopios y de famas, Save Twilight: Selected Poems
Jorge Luis Borges: Labyrinths, This Craft of Verse
Adolfo Bioy Casares: The Invention of Morel, Asleep in the Sun
Ernesto Che Guevara: The Motorcycle Diaries
Books I have ... My past reads have included 3 short story collections by Jorge Luis Borges, of which Labyrinths is probably my favourite, as well as Agua by Eduardo Berti. My current pile, some of which I will read in March, is:
A Plan for Escape by Adolfo Bioy-Casares
How I Became a Nun by ... I too have just ordered the Folio 60 and have also succumbed to Labyrinths, which I first read 25 odd years ago and seemed an absolute bargain. ... than novels, mainly because I need to pause between stories. Have you tried Borges short stories, either Fictions or Labyrinths - they are probably as mindblowing as short story writing is likely to get... ... that I have been thinking of are In Search of Lost Time, although I must admit that it intimidates me somewhat, and Labyrinths. Please let me know if you think of any other suggestions. Happy Reading!
--BJ
P.S. What Chinese books do you recommend? ... / The Shipyard by Juan Carlos Onetti
Ecuador - The Old Man Who Read Love Stories bt Luis Sepulveda
Argentina - Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
Brazil - City of God by Paulo Lins
AUSTRALIA AND PACIFIC
Australia - Lantana Lane by Eleanor Dark I finally got my folio package with:
Epics of the Middle Ages
Borges Labyrinths
The Folio Book of Days
and Faust ... more than one, (as you did anyway.. very sneaky)
And I have read (most of the) Cyberiad....
and I have Borges Labryinths
and you can continue to choose.. I have to go pick up some stuff but Ill be reading more on Friday:)
Thanks everyone for playing.. and I will certainly ... ... all stories are equally strange and great jumping off places for great discussion about reality and perception. I recommend Labyrinths as a text for short stories.
Jorge Luis Borges - Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
This was just... wow.
Brian K. Vaughn - Runaways. Vol. 5: Escape to New York
Brian K. Vaughn - Runaways. Vol. 6: Parental Guidance
These weren't as strong as the preceding story arcs. The art was very ... ... I tried to be strong....
.... it lasted 20 minutes. Now Goethe's Faust, Epics of the Middle Ages and Borgeslabyrinths is on the way.
The worst thing is that it always takes about 3 month for the packets to arrive *whinge* ... The man(?) had been gassing himself by running his car in a closed garage.
I read this story at about the same time as Labyrinths, by Jorge Luis Borges, and it has the same kind of feel as those stories. At first I thought it might have been in that compilation, but it's not. I'm not sure ... ... Ingmar Bergman
The Sorcerer's Apprentice Tahir Shah
Now You See It Richard Matheson
Vanishing Acts Jodi Picoult
Labyrinths Jorge Louis Borges
Invisible Cities Italo Calvino ... it was.
In Progress
(10. A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle)
(11. Fellowship of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein)
(12. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges)
TBR
(13. Wicked by Gregory Maguire)
(14. Julius Caeser by William Shakespeare)
(15. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls)
(16. ... ... .Sigmund Freud.
Northanger Abbey is Austen's part-homage to, part-parody of gothic novels from the late 18th century.
Labyrinths in which Borges "writes over" genres, including detective fiction, and has great story about a library.
The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall, the famous send-up ... ... deeply impressed by Borges but not sure I could read all the short stories...got a bit confused with the rest of them in Labyrinths
About to start travels through france and italy 5. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges {re-read} - Several strong, sub-genre defining stories, in a book where the whole is even stronger than any of its individual parts. 16. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges, 1964
Series of devilishly clever short stories. Conundrums, philosophical musings, crimes with twists in the tale. Reminds me of Poe, H.G. Wells, Umberto Eco. Needs to be read in small bites.
17. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett, 2007
Delightful, ... ... of Change by Henry Hobhouse
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
Great Short Stories
Dubliners by James Joyce
I am such a very weak person. ... in the center, and then retracing ones route back out.
By the way, I never think of the minotaur or Jorge Luis Borges (Labyrinths) when I do the labyrinth. Fiction:
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Non-Fiction:
The Rebel by Albert Camus
Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega y Gasset
The Orientalist by Tom Reiss ... The symbol of the old labyrinth appears in the fictions of Jorge Luis Borges. His most popular book in LT is Labyrinths; selected stories & other writings… with 1665 copies and 9 reviews. One story I particularly liked was "The House of Asterion" which deals with the Cretan labyrinth, in ... 44.Post Office-Charles Bukowski
45.Labryinths-Jorge Luis Borges
46.Motherless Brooklyn-Johnathan Lethem ... in Kafu the Scribbler by Edward Seidensticker. I love these these ambience-loaded things.
Now get a copy of his American Stories, and a book of novellas.
I love this guy. He really gives me such a sense of time and place. I can smell the locations, I can hear the people's voices. ... ... of the Wind over the weekend. What a great book! Now like some of the Aldayas family I am going to Argentina with Borges Labyrinths which I am excited about because the last several books I liked have been compared to him. ... Vladimir Nabokov, Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein, The Physiology of Taste by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, and Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges. I haven't seen Jorge Luis Borges mentioned here. His anthology Labyrinths is a wonderful look at his work.
Gabriel Garcia Marques's One Thousand Years of Solitude I believe is considered classic MR.
Same with Isabel Allende.
I apologize if I'm being too obvious here. ... from our fingertips
Into the ether leaving no trace of day.
All our talk our thoughts our nighttime trips
Through the Labyrinths of mind our life just slips
Beyond our grasp unordered, unkept, unken’d
By any but the few we’ve touched with our fingertips.
In the distance I see ... ... his writing. The introduction wasn't bad, either, though suspect in a couple of its conclusions in my opinion.
61. The Moon Maiden and Other Stories by Grace James
I've encountered most of these tales before, but with the exception of the title story, which was abbreviated to an ... ... alone
The Man of Property
In Chancery
To Let
Of Human Bondage
My life as a fake
The Red and the Black
Labyrinths
What I Loved: A Novel
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Food and Art
The story of art
Battle Lines: Australian Artists at War
Hang-Ups: A Collection of Essa ... ... Argentina after three weeks. Supremely interesting! Parts of it are more readable than others.
Now I've been reading Labyrinths by Borges. I feel like I'm not connected to his stories at times, but by the end I am completely wrapped up in them and my mind bursting with ideas.
I've ... Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges. I've read a few short stories and poems of his, which I've thoroughly enjoyed, so I'm looking forward to this collection. I've spent far too long thinking about this now, so here goes:
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon by Sei Shonagon
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Three to see the king by Magnus Mills
but maybe I'd swap ... ...
When I recommend "classics" to people who are not used to them, I go with something like Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths. This is a set of short stories that will open your mind to the unusual and prime your inner reader to look for hidden meaning. Another book of this type is Meta ... ... and articulate randomness to his subject matter. Of all his works it's his poetry I like the best but Ficciones and or Labyrinths to me would be the best place to start with his prose which is either in short story or essayistic form. I see echoes of his style in a number of very important ... I'm also very excited about Labyrinths -- I haven't re-read Borges since I was a teenager, and I'm a huge fan of Neil Packer's illustration work.
But speaking of the FS members' page, it seems to have disappeared.. I wonder whether it's been taken down permanently. ... finishing my stay in Buenos Aires with The Tango Singer by Eloy...its been a strange yet satisfying trip with echos of Borges , tango music and the labyrinths the city provides. North America: Philip Roth -American Pastoral
South America: Jorge L. Borges -Labyrinths
Asia: Haruki Murakami -After THe Quake
Europe:Milan Kundera-The Unbearable Lightness of Being I'd have to agree with the several above mentions of Jorge Luis Borges - Labyrinths might qualify as a life-changing book for me. As for other fiction, I'd nominate Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire.
As for non-fiction - Peter Matthiessen's Snow Leopard and In The Spirit Of Crazy Horse ... ... Davies
Last and First Men and Star Maker by William Olaf Stapledon
Puer Aeternus by Marie-Luise von Franz
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
Culture and Value by Wittgenstein
Middle Age:
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
The World as Will and Re ... ... is without merit, despite his turgid style, the stories themselves can be strangely effective.
Jorge Luis Borges Labyrinths is a classic collection. Borges may not be a writer for characterisation but his stories are witty and very clever.
Gogol is usually lumped with the other ... I had a copy of Labyrinths....once... (mean and cruel ex roommates!) Also Ficciones, which I loved. But I don't recall any tattoos either. ... the Bible? by Charles Francis Potter, The Eternal Now by Paul Tillich, Advice to Writers by Jon Winokur, Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges, Man in the Landscape: A Historic View of the Esthetics of Nature by Paul Shepard, and The So ... Crikey! Coffee hasn't kicked in. Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings. Dang ampersand...!
... enough blithering. Here are some of my favorite short story collections:
1. Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme
2. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
3. The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai Gogol
4. Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth
5. Welcome to the Monkey H ...
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