posted evening of Monday, August 4th, 2008
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I felt somewhat like you did about Borges. I couldn't read all of
Ficciones, not because I did't like the way he wrote, but because
it left me somewhat cold. It's admirable how he can create an
entire world including the fake bibliography, and the stories are
VERY clever, but I found them lacking in the emotional area.
posted morning of August 5th, 2008 by Jorge López
The stories do have that philosophical abstraction to them, don't
they? (I've only read a bit of Borges, though, and that was long
ago.) Have you read Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and
Others? Chiang is, I think, mining some of the same kinds of
ideas, from a very different stylistic perspective.
posted morning of August 5th, 2008 by Randolph
I was extremely happy with Borges when I first read his stories, in
college; and I think (based on reading "The Circular Ruins" last
night) that I would be into them again now. It just requires a
radically different approach from the reader, than anything I've
been reading lately.
I haven't read anything by Chiang -- not sure I have even heard
his name before. Interesting title.
posted morning of August 5th, 2008 by Jeremy
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