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    https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-belles-lettres-papers-by-charles.html   Hard reviewer John Simon or soft Anthony Burgess link Burgess is good at real masterpieces but not fake ones – he does not say they’re fake, he just uses his fake voice then they decide to have him review Norman Mailer’s massive Eguptian oeuvre and Margin says get a wire off to Tony soonest, he calls them by first name Who the twenty five best writers in America are in response to Tool wanting Blles Lettres to award the Nobel prize… Mrs Tooling Frank Page narrator had the idea but he was jesting, being ironic Paul Bowles and Alice Walker the only two I know on one list Most familiar on another James Baldwin John Cheever, Alison Lurie, William Maxwell, Joan Didion, Kerouac, Robert Penn Warren, Salinger, Thornton Wilder Another, Chuckle, named himself as one of the 25 Frank and Margin decide they will come up with the list, they struggle over Donald Bartheleme, Th...

  The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich was awarded The 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it is ranked 6203 rd on The Greatest Books of All Time, and I was just thinking, if I were to use AI to compile a list of my own, it might have the same position; on my blog, you have a multitude of reviews of magnum opera from The GOAT and other sites https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html   7 out of 10   Magister Ludi Kingsley Amis https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-anti-death-league-by-kingsley-amis.html said that ‘he had previously thought of the Booker as a rather trivial, showbizzy sort of caper, but now considered it a very serious, reliable indication of literary merit…’ I wonder about The Pulitzer   I was wondering about AI, and how it could design the lists of favorite books, food, films, etc. seeing that it (or should I use he/her/they?) already knows so much about everything, perhaps the r...

  Lovely, Dark Deep by Joyce Carol Oates was shortlisted for The 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Literature; Joyce Carol Oates is one of the two writers who have been nominated for this award four times, the other is Philip Roth – you could check my blog for more reviews https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html   9 out of 10   Joyce Carol Oates https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/mastiff-by-joyce-carol-oates-is-second.html is one of two writers to be nominated four times for The Pulitzer Prize for Literature, and the collection Lovely, Dark, Deep is one of the four oeuvres, I have been first mesmerized by Black Water, a fabulous novel…   Which is based on fact, senator Kennedy has been involved in an accident, in which his lover was killed, a film was made about this, the car was driven into the Black Water, the man may have been drunk, this is how I recall it, but I may be wrong, then he did not do much, i...

  Genesis by Anonymous is the first book of The Bible, which is 21 st on The Greatest Books of All Time site, clearly The Absolute Number One, nec plus ultra for billions of Christians, and millions of Jewish people, seeing as it is part of The Hebrew Bible https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html this is the address of my blog, where I have more reviews on books and films   9 out of 10   Rating Genesis, writing about the bible could https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/genesis.html be blasphemous, indeed, by itself, if the point is to criticize, do anything except express awe, faith, and absolute admiration, I could be exposed to serious punishment, although there is a difference between mortal and venial sin   I have been reading again A Married Man and within it we have this exchange of letters between Claire, the wife of The Married Man, and a priest, she is ready to commit adultery, and then t...

A Married Man by Piers Paul Read is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, although it is only 5577 th on The Greatest Books of All Time; it used to be in my Top 200, now, after reading it for the second time, I don’t know, but maybe I have a conclusion by the time I finish this note…you may have some suggestions if you visit https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html   9 out of 10   Piers Paul Read https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-married-man-by-piers-paul-read-is-as.html mesmerized me, when I first met A Married Man, only now it is a second encounter, and I have had some objections, if minor, while the first time I placed in the headline of my note ‘as close to perfection as possible’   Barrister John Strickland is probably more distant from yours truly, and that may be part of the ‘problem’ – though let me conclude from here that the oeuvre is excellent, even if the maximum expectations have ...

  When Breath Becomes Air is The 2016 Winner of The Goodreads Choice Award for Memoir & Autobiography, the finalist for The Pulitzer Prize, Biography or Autobiography, it has about 850,000 ratings on Goodreads, and some 68,000 reviews, an average of 4.41 out of 5 stars, it is just 3186 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, you could visit   https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html my blog for more reviews   7 out of 10   I thought of Joyce Carol Oates https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-wheel-of-love-and-other-stories-by.html as I have been reading more of her short stories, and one, Sex With Camel, has some morbid jokes, including one with ‘there are some good news and bad news’, with the question, what bad news?   ‘They stopped chemotherapy, and the good news? They stopped chemotherapy’ in fact, I am pretty sure that I made a mistake, and said this in the wrong order, it should have been the ...