torts's reviews
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Fun and quick. A little lacking in character depth/agency (and some troubling sexualization of the teenage protagonist), but very consistent with the film version.

No sé si no comprendo tanto que comprendía cuando estaba estudiando español en escuela o si no me gusta Borges tanto que craía, pero muchos cuentos me aburridaban y casi abandoné muchas veces... era demasiado de dios y de cosas políticas (que algunas veces parecía que Borges era racista) y quería mas de los espejos y las palabras y el lenguaje y el infinitud y algunas ideas asi.

Sweet story. I always felt like

he sacrificed more than her, though, because hair grows back but there's no way that he can ever guarantee that he'd be able to earn enough money to buy back the watch (let alone find it again, assuming nobody else were to buy it...). But then again her hair was pretty long, and by the time it got that long again she'd probably have lost some of her looks. So maybe they realy had both sacrificed something irreplaceable. It was sweet, though. I kind of love them both for it. ("it" being their love for each other, which makes them so adorable and selfless). Good stuff.

I should re-read this.

Funnier than I'd imagined it to be. Also, having read it I am now incredibly self-conscious about the way I'm writing. Awkward.

Anyway, the rules Strunk laid out were pretty concise and had helpful elaborations. Many of them felt like common sense tips on how to be clear, but there were also occasional hard and fast rules for phrasing and punctuation which were helpful to have. White's section at the end on style was definitely a divergence from Strunk's straightforward voice, but it was a nice demonstration of form and function working together. It was funny when the rules were explained in such a way that the explanation itself demonstrated why the rule should be followed by breaking that rule...

Another awkward thing: Strunk likes the Oxford comma. And adding 's after all singular possessives. I like these choices too, but AP style has convinced me that they are technically wrong. Stupid newspapers.