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    <body><![CDATA[The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memories are the last works of Borges and have been caviled by some as 'old men stories'. <br/><br/>For me, what is most representative of Borges' style are in the stories &quot;Undr&quot;, The Mirror and the Mask and The Rose of Paracelsus. Undr and The Mirror a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11019345">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Actually, I'm reading it in Spanish. But Goodreads doesn't have El Libro de Arena as an option...yet.<br/><br/>I'm really enjoying Borges, he has such a unique and consistent style. So unusual, imaginative and poetic.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is titled &quot;The Book of Sand&quot; after one of its short stories. In that short story, The Book of Sand is called such because it is a book with no beginning and no end and no pattern to its pages. I think it makes a suitable title for the collection of stories as a whole, though for ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57609240">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If you've read House of Leaves, you will know that Borges is mentioned a lot in the book as well as the online discussions of the book.  <br/><br/>I've been reading the books that I think Danielewski took the inspiration for, and the short stories from the collection Book of Sand show a few signs ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54090800">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&quot;Не querido ser fiel, еn estos ejercicios de ciego -dijo en una ocasion Jorge Luis Borges refiriendose a los relatos incluidos en &quot;El libro de arena&quot; -, al ejemplo de Wells: la conjuncion del estilo llano, a veees casi oral, у de un argumento imposible.&quot; El propio autor reconoee la singularidad de uno de estos relatos: &quot;Si de todos mis textos tuviera que rescatar uno solo, rescataria, ereo, &quot;El Congreso&quot;, que es a la vez el mas autobiografico (el que prodiga mas los recuerdos) у el mas fantastico&quot;. ]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wonderful magical book. I loved the first story, with the two Borges, and the story that gives the title to the book (which incidentally contains a reference to a place in my hometown). Borges writing is complex and profound, with a certain magic and yet so close to us...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[NOTE: The edition listed on <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://goodreads.com">goodreads.com</a> isn't the same one I'm reading, so the page listings may not be accurate.  Anyhow, this is my first foray into Borges's work and I really like it.  It's a bit surreal at times, but not confusingly so.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[When I jump-started my Spanish after 25 years of disuse, this is the book that opened my eyes to South American literature.  It is written in impeccable and enviable English and Spanish in the way only Borges has done.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Book of Sand was a very enjoyable collection of short stories. The book I had (Large Print Masterworks) also contained some wonderful illustrations by Judy Deykin.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm afraid I did not connect with Borges' tales, they were not of my type, so did not enjoy them very much.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Fazem parte deste livro os seguintes contos:<br/>-O outro<br/>-Ulrica<br/>-O congresso<br/>-There are more things<br/>-A seita dos trinta<br/>-A noite das mercês<br/>-O espelho e a máscara<br/>-Undr<br/>-Utopia de um homem que está cansado<br/>-O suborno<br/>-Avelino Arredondo<br/>-O disco<br/>-O livro de areia]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Outro belíssimo livro de contos de Jorge Luis Borges.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[get off the internet, it's driving you insane...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I like Borges.  No, I love him. My heart aches when I read these stories. If there ever was a modern prophet, Borges exceeds her.]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like the distant, clipped, articulate tone- it reminds me too of Italo Calvino and Primo Levi, especially in the no-nonsense presentation of ridiculous things. If they had told these stories I would put especially high marks... but it was so dry it gave me the creeps. As in, after I read the stori...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26823274">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[But I liked the Blue Tiger.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of Borge's last books, and many of the pieces here are less than his best. &quot;The Congress,&quot; however, is a tale of the microcosm as powerful and effective as &quot;The Aleph&quot; and &quot;The Book of Sand&quot; is also one of Borge's finest stories.  &quot;The Sect of Thirty&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1303730">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A fantastic collections of short stories, the Book of Sand shows Borges at his best.  The false expository may be philosophically and thematically interesting, but it sometimes makes for a read that can drag.  But the real reason to pick this up, as with most of Borges' work, is to let yourself get ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32845638">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Love, love, love.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[El Libro de Arena]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Creo que voy a tener que dar otra oportunidad a Jorge Luis Borges. Me han dicho que es un excelente escritor, pero este libro de cuentos no me prendió la atención.<br/><br/>Voy a leer otro de él, entonces.]]></body>
    
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