Deep in Don Quixote, for a while I convinced myself that Cervantes had written the footnotes too, and the Quixote commentators the editor cited were actually made up by Cervantes. He messes with you like that: he plays so many tricks that you end up thinking anything is possible.Four months later I...
This book is a collection of short stories by Jorge Luis Borges. I continue to read it from time to time. The book is always nearby. I love it for its vivid and beautiful imagery and for its poetic prose. Some stories are written with an eye to journalism as though the stories are truth and not f...
Quite a departure for Perez-Reverte (not an art-mystery or an historical swashbuckler) - but possibly his most heavy-hitting work to date. After the first couple of chapters, my first thought was, 'this is just like a Quentin Tarantino film!' However, the book as a whole is much more insightful and ...
Noticed this is being made into a movie and it reminded me that I had read this book a couple of years ago. Was a pretty decent book from what I remember. Interesting characters and plot.
In Borges's short story, the world consists of a gigantic library which contains every possible book that can ever be written. So, somewhere, there must logically be the book, the one that reveals the Library's secret! Unfortunately, there is no filing system, and no one has any idea of how to find ...
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