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A review by mint_renegade
Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges
Did not finish book. Stopped at 27%.
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You don't like short stories. Stop reading short stories. All day I've been glancing at this book and asking why. Why am I reading this? I could die tomorrow and this is what the coroner would find in my bag.
"Really, this is what they died reading? Now if they died reading, say, rich dad, poor dad or, better yet, a 40k enemies-to-friends-to-lovers fan fic, that would be an understandable, nay an admirable way to go. But this, oh honey."
A person I dislike recently said to me that a short story collection is like an album. In listening you might come to find your favourite song, youll definately find a least favourite and most of them will be middling, and forgettable. The only way to know which is which is to listen to the whole album.
Then I thought to myself - he had a point at the beginning, completely lost me at the end. I have never listened to any one artists' album in its entirety. I'll tell you that blood like lemonade is my favourite song by morcheeba and also that I have never listened to any other song on that album/their discography. Ill tell you that red desert was my 2022 most listened to song on CALM and it took less than 10 seconds for me to realise that wildflowers was a flop. Songs either hook their talons into me by the first riff or not at all. In book terms, we'll say 50 pages then I'm out. 78 pages and 4 stories into this and i could barely remember even 1.
You don't like short stories. Stop reading short stories. All day I've been glancing at this book and asking why. Why am I reading this? I could die tomorrow and this is what the coroner would find in my bag.
"Really, this is what they died reading? Now if they died reading, say, rich dad, poor dad or, better yet, a 40k enemies-to-friends-to-lovers fan fic, that would be an understandable, nay an admirable way to go. But this, oh honey."
A person I dislike recently said to me that a short story collection is like an album. In listening you might come to find your favourite song, youll definately find a least favourite and most of them will be middling, and forgettable. The only way to know which is which is to listen to the whole album.
Then I thought to myself - he had a point at the beginning, completely lost me at the end. I have never listened to any one artists' album in its entirety. I'll tell you that blood like lemonade is my favourite song by morcheeba and also that I have never listened to any other song on that album/their discography. Ill tell you that red desert was my 2022 most listened to song on CALM and it took less than 10 seconds for me to realise that wildflowers was a flop. Songs either hook their talons into me by the first riff or not at all. In book terms, we'll say 50 pages then I'm out. 78 pages and 4 stories into this and i could barely remember even 1.