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... 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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