A review by juushika
The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges

3.0

Diverse but limited, esoterically researched and glaringly incomplete, and this all feels as it should be: this approach to the subject could never be perfected; it's the biased, perforce limited, but awesomely expansive product of one man's knowledge. The voice is suitably erudite, skeptical, and playful; Borges is as present in the text as the beasts. It makes for fun browsing, but it's not especially my style--I prefer something more exhaustively researched or more atmospheric/creative. But as the author's presence and selections are the real selling point, perhaps my opinion would differ were I more familiar with Borges.