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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17717.Labyrinths_Selected_Stories_and_Other_Writings?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (New Directions Paperbook, 186)" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1166852117m/17717.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17717.Labyrinths_Selected_Stories_and_Other_Writings?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/500.Jorge_Luis_Borges">Jorge Luis Borges</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7872873?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/>First of all everyone knows Borges should have won the Nobel prize. Second, he has to be the most innovative and influential Spanish language writer of the 20th century (sorry Garcia Marquez fans). Anyway, it is depressing that I first really got into Borges in English with this particular book, although it is a good book as it is a collection of greatest hits. I don't know if Borges writes short stories. Someone once said, I don't know who, that Borges writes geometric puzzles. Anyway, being simple minded, I am a big fan of Borges' simpler pieces, The Circular Ruins, The God's Script, Borges and I, but really it's all good. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/419076?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>