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Borges and Myself: Interesting (albeit short) introspective piece | The Maker: Too vague for my liking. | The Intruder: Interesting story about brotherhood. | The Immortals: Interesting look at immortality and its effect on people. | The Meeting: Fantastic story about the persistence of grudges after death. | Pedro Salvadores: Fine but not inspiring. | Rosendo's Tale: Fine but it didn't feel all that necessary.
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Ethan Santiago
is 76% done
The Other Death: Intriguing, but not Borges' strongest entry. | Ibn Hakkan al-Bokhari, Dead in His Labyrinth: I don't know man this one wasn't for me. The premise just didn't work as well as I'd hope. | The Man on the Threshold: Really good. Interesting and thought provoking in its execution. | The Challenge: Not bad but the weird metaness didn't work for me. | The Captive: Not even a page long but really great.
— Aug 27, 2026 02:25PM
Ethan Santiago
is 52% done
The Circular Ruins: My favorite of this batch. The ending was fascinating and thought provoking | Death and the Compass: Skipped, as I had read it previously (it's very good though) | The Life of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874): Fine. One of the weaker entries of the collection | The Two Kings and Their Two Labyrinths: Only a page and a half but still good | The Dead Man: Pretty good but nothing mind-blowing.
— Aug 25, 2026 12:40PM
Ethan Santiago
is 28% done
The Aleph was really great, the Streetcorner Man was really great, and the Approach to Al-Mu'tasim was good. The collection's titular work, the Aleph, reminded me of Borges' work in Ficciones, dealing with the infinite and endless. The Streetcorner Man was an interesting western short story about a knife duel which I enjoyed, and the last work was a fictional review of a fictional story that was neat
— Aug 24, 2026 03:11PM