| 1. |  | Spark Notes 100 Years of Solitude
from SparkNotes
Price: $4.95
Customer Review:
I've read this book several times and it gets better with each reading. While I believe LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA is Marquez' best novel, ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE is probably his most mesmerizing. From the very first, beautifully constructed sentence (my favorite book beginning of all time)... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | El Amor En Los Tiempos Del Colera / Love in the Time of Cholera (Spanish Edition)
from Debolsillo
Customer Review:
Decir que me gusta Garcia Marquez no seria la verdad- lo adoro.
Su uso del lenguaje, su estilo vibrante nunca aburrido, su manera de contemplar la vida son unicos. Hay mas historias de amor de uno quiere recordar pero esta es la mas bella y al mismo tiempo mas extravagante de toda la... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | Ficciones (BIBLIOTECA BORGES) (Spanish Edition)
from Alianza
Price: $16.49
Customer Review:
Jorge Luis Borges was one of those rare writers who can take even a bizarre, utterly unbelievable idea, and spin it into an exquisite little gem of prose.
And this classic writer was at the peak of his powers when he collected together "Ficciones," whose plain name belies the subtle power and... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems (Bilingual Edition) (Spanish Edition)
from City Lights Publishers
Price: $11.53
Customer Review:
I lost sleep last night to devour its last page...I love a night like last night where a book keeps me awake like a lover.
This collection is the juice of a cool of mango on a scathing summer day, I tasted radience in the words!! I immediately got more to give as presents to friends in love.more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | Before Night Falls: A Memoir
from Penguin (Non-Classics)
Price: $10.20
Customer Review:
My review will be quite simple, this book is... marvelous, magnificent, beautiful, brilliant, painful, poetic, and glorious. Read it!!!!!!!! | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | Borges: Selected Non-Fictions
from Penguin
Price: $14.96
Customer Review:
A must read. A great selection of non-fiction material. If you know and like Borges you know you'll be pleased, if this is your first time reading Borges I guarantee that it won't be your last, you'll keep buying all his work. Borges wasn't a man, he was a library, a portal to knowledge and... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 7. |  | Daughter of Fortune
from Rebound by Sagebrush
Price: $23.85
Customer Review:
I love this book. It was full of romance of course and I don't really like much mushy stuff because mushy stuff can lead to corny lines and doings and all things corny but man, I was caught up in all of Eliza's tale from Joaquin to Tao-Chen... it was great. I didn't really want it to end.... more info | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel
from Oxford University Press, USA
Price: $15.96
Customer Review:
I am team-teaching a class on literature and math this year, and my mathematician colleague and I are reading this book together. We are both seriously impressed by it. I'm going to convince him to write his own review, but I can say this:
- the book is *beautifully* written, a profound joy to... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | Cien Años de Soledad
from Catedra
Price: $14.85
Customer Review:
Este es un libro fascinante, lleno de realismo mágico, aventuras, drama y pasión. Un libro con el que se puede identificar cualquier latinoamericano por todo lo que tiene de cotidiano y de supersticioso. La historia tiene ciertas similitudes con la Biblia (Génesis, Exodo,... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (Library of Latin America)
from Oxford University Press, USA
Price: $31.49
Customer Review:
I returned this book because the print on many pages was blurred making them unreadable. I think this is unacceptable in a paperback at this price. | 4.5 / 5.0
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