Librería Antártica in Santiago

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  David Lavado Abarzúa

  :: 30 March 2018 15:16:37

  Plenty of books at a fair price

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  P Kaitz

  :: 20 January 2018 17:26:39

  This is my library. The first Borges story I read was the one about the king who contracts to have a map drawn of his kingdom. What ensues is that the map rivals in size that of the kingdom itself. (In one of my other reviews there is reproduced a conversion stream where my friend Hussein traces the provenance of this story line, I think back to Lewis Carroll. I was disappointed to learn that the notion did not originate in the labyrinthine mind of Borges. But this epiphany diminishes not at all his mystique.) Astérix I first discovered at my best friend David's house when I was a kid. David's parents were both from Europe, and between them spoke every language and knew everything knowable. They would speak Flemish when they didn't want us to understand. This design book I would have much preferred in English, but the topic itself is irresistible. It treats the intersection of art and math, and elaborates upon such topics as phi and the golden mean, the shape of arches, and all the other quantifiable, iterated forms of man's invention. The Eyewitness guides are just great travel books. The dictionary I choose because the binding is flexible, the pages have a matt finish, the contrast of text is good, and I do not despise the font. Plus, there are inline conjugations of irregular verbs, including the subjunctive, and lots of pictures. The last thing, the absolute last thing I wanted to do was pick up twenty pounds of books. I am not allowed to go into book stores.

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  Andriel Tabrax

  :: 14 January 2018 17:36:02

  Love it

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  Luis Toledo Parra

  :: 04 January 2018 14:47:26

  Nice place

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  Rodrigo Toledo

  :: 13 August 2017 17:25:58

  Bookstores in Chile are quite different from the anglosaxon countries. Here you can not check books by yourself. If you want to check books you would have a book seller behind you controlling that you don't open a book. It's annoying. Also they don't know what books they have.