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  Make every word work for you

  Borges was a master of the short story. He can fit more ideas into two pages than most writers can fit into two hundred and fifty.Each time you read a story you'll see more.Stunning, mesmerising and before his time

  Review by David of the Leeds Borders on 2009-01-22 19:13:08

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  Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges

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  Review by Chris of the London - Islington Borders on 2009-02-24 15:40:01

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  Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges

  Borges was a master of the short story. He can fit more ideas into two pages than most writers can fit into two hundred and fifty. Read one of these short stories in the morning and you'll still be mulling it over when you go to bed. Each time you read a story you'll see more. Borges is the personification of the writers mantra 'make every word work for you', his economy of language is astounding. Stunning, mesmerising and before his time - I'm almost lost for words.

  Review by David Hopkins on 14:04, 04 Apr 2008

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  Argentine master

  Borges is a masterful writer and this selection of short stories contains some of his best work. There is an other-worldly feel to these stories, sometimes bizarre and hallucinatory, sometimes in the sense that there is an underlying mathematical formula for language that only Borges can express.

  Review by Tom Becker on 14:04, 04 Apr 2008

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