Ficciones

Paradise Lost, Gravity's Rainbow, Middlemarch, and 2666. edit: The short stories which have stuck with me the most over the years are probably Joyce's "The Dead," O'Connor's "Good Country People," and a solid half of Borges's "Ficciones."

Disclaimer: These books changed the way I think primarily because I've read them quite young (early/mid teens) and as such, were formative. 1. The Morning of the Magicians (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Morning_of_the_Magicians) This book, although many (most?) of its claims are disproved really had an impact on me since it showed me that there could be _a lot_ more in the world than meets the eye. Everything around us and in history is filled with mysteries, unanswered questions. You could find interesting things everywhere. I would say the content is not the important part, but it instills the curiosity to dig deeper. 2. Memories, Dreams, Reflections (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memories,_Dreams,_Reflections) A semi-autobiography of Carl Jung. It made me realise how "meta-programmable" humans are. How much of how we think can be though upon, itself. How we can introspect on our thoughs ... with our thoughts. Basically, made me in awe of conscious beings. 3. Ficciones (Fictions, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficciones)…

Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges. Short stories that will help you pick it up easily. They are intrincate and dreamy/legendary, in a sense, and touch themes that some people here like (infinity, time, labirynths, myths, old literature, libraries, misteries...)

Fiction, English Listening: Swords in the Mist, Fritz Leiber. Third in the Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser collections. Reading: The Dispossessed, Ursula Le Guin. Fiction, Spanish I’m trying to learn Spanish. I’ve picked up a few Spanish language fiction books, presently starting on Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal. I’ve tried reading other books, like Jorge Luis Borges’ Ficciones, but I’ve found it to be above my present level. I’ve restarted four or five times and made it further each time, but always stalled out. Non-fiction The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman. I have other books started lying around the house, but these are the ones I’ve been actively engaged with in the last couple weeks. When I can type properly again (two to three weeks) I’ll resume Lisp in Small Pieces, Christian Queinnec. And at the office I have The Pragmatic Programmer, I’ll be back there next week and bring it home so I can continue with it.

Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges. I live in a non-Spanish speaking country.

Who has time for books nowadays? Some lovely tales so short u can read'em over coffee: - Asimov's Profession, his best short story IMHO - Mimsy Were the Borogoves - just reread it, it's as great as it was when I was a teen! - Flowers to Algernon is sad, but a must - Everything from Lem's Cyberiad - Everything from Borjes` Fictions

Ficciones from Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions, 1999. I first encountered Borges as a 15 year old student in high school. I am now 56. The book was ficciones. It changed my life. Borges read everything. What made him the genius that he was, is that he remembered everything that he read, and he was consequently able to make droll observations across cultures and epochs.

Ficciones, by Borges Very imaginative short stories bordering on the philosophical, some of them hilarious.