First of all, this:
>eh, i like stories about people
Like I said in another thread:
>He was too intelligent, extremely well read, devoted to books and literature as few people have ever been. However, he was too distant from people, too distant from real life, too shy near women, to the point of almost living as a celibatary for most of his life. His work is cerebral, it is beautiful, but more a work of ideas and elaborate allegories. We don’t feel in him the same kowledge of life and human beings that Shakespeare and Tolstoy emanated from every pour. Borges is not the creator of other human beings. I honestly think that García Márquez, even with all his flaws, was superior to Borges. Borges was a sublime writer, but he seems more like a teacher for the truly great poets of humanity and sages of human relations.
You want some other writers to read?
>Tolstoy
The best novelist of all time,one of the best short story writers, probably the only writer who could face Shakespeare face to face.
>Shakespeare
Greatest poetic language of all time.
If language is one of the supreme traits of humanity, and if writing is the greatest of all inventions, than Shakespeare is the one person who took these inventions to their extreme of beauty and invention.
>Chekhov
One of the greatest short story writers of all time. Of all the writers perhaps the one who had the most wise and emphaty-filled view of humanity.
>Gabriel García Márquez
If you like Spanish-language literature, go for One Hundred Years of Solitude: one of the most beautiful books ever created.
I also suggest some great novels I read recently:
>Lolita
>Memoirs of Hadrian
And the poetry of Wisława Szymborska