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Yes, Borges is great. Careful tho - his works seem slender and short, but there's whole universes in there. You might end up thinking of IJ and GR as stopgaps around the Borges.
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Borges is great. Careful tho - his works seem slender and short, but there's whole universes in there.
I discovered this last night when it took over two hours to traverse 16 pages... I seem to end up googling something every other page, with the distraction ranging from looking up a succinct definition, to a sprawling in-depth review of some archaic reference.
I may go buy V. after work...
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Completely agree! Too good, too detailed, too enthralling - I've never encountered a novel like it, although I could see why some might be turned away by the maximalist prose and seemingly endless sentences. It did take me a while to adapt to DFW's style but once you're there, it's so rewarding.
I bought a stack of cheap Jorge Borges fictions not long ago, I think they'll make a good stopgap between IJ and Gravity's Rainbow.