I liked "The Club Dumas" because I used to collect antiquarian books.

On Marquez, there was an interview with him in the LA Times right about the time Love In The Time of Cholera was published, in which he was talking about translations and so forth, and he said that he likes the sound of his work in English better than he does in Spanish. So think about that.

On Quixote, I'm not a big fan but someone on here is. Run a search through the ptp archives. I'm certain you'll find out who it is -- whoever it is has read the book like four times.

Probably I'll remember who it is in the middle of the night tonight.

Also, while we're talking about Spanish language writers, don't sleep on Machado de Assis. Any book by him is a great book.

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