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Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow was the finalist for The 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Literature, notwithstanding the fact that it is only 8988th on The Greatest Books of All Time site – you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel

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  Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow was the finalist for The 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Literature, notwithstanding the fact that it is only 8988 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site – you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel   8 out of 10   E.L. Doctorow https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/ragtime-based-on-novel-by-el-doctorow.html was a celebrated writer, albeit he was failed to overwhelm this reader, moreover, all the three oeuvres that I have read have all the same 8 out of 10 rating in my ledger, with a plus for Billy Bathgate, read for the first time years back   Billy Bathgate is a likeable enough character- nay, leading I was going to say, except he is not yet sixteen when we meet him, even if he has an adult in the background, the one telling us the crime story – but the is...
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Dune written by Denis Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts and Eric Roth, based on the novel by Frank Herbert, which is ranked 101st on The Greatest Books of All Time site, it is included on The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read list, although it is not a story I get; you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from The GOAT, 1,000 Novels and other pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html

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  Dune written by Denis Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts and Eric Roth, based on the novel by Frank Herbert, which is ranked 101 st on The Greatest Books of All Time site, it is included on The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read list, although it is not a story I get; you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from The GOAT, 1,000 Novels and other pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html   7 out of 10   I have tried https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/09/dune-by-frank-herbert-my-other-note-on.html the celebrated Dune before, in book format, that is audiobook, and I did not find the oomph, stamina, determination to get on with it, I was thinking that perhaps the movie adaptation will catch my attention, appreciated as it is   Alas, it did not happen, granted, we seldom have a motion picture that is better than the original, it happened to me in the case of Doctor Zhivago, where the film is phen...
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Poems by Paul Verlaine – we find the Selected Poems at 7100 on The Greatest Books of All Time site and The One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine even lower on that page, nonetheless, they are among my favorites…you have thousands of reviews on magnum opera from the GOAT and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel

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  Poems by Paul Verlaine – we find the Selected Poems at 7100 on The Greatest Books of All Time site and The One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine even lower on that page, nonetheless, they are among my favorites…you have thousands of reviews on magnum opera from the GOAT and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel   10 out of 10   ‘Words create worlds’ https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/happier-by-tal-ben-shahar.html I don’t know the source of the original quote, but I have heard this in the YouTube videos of the most popular courses at Harvard, which you could, maybe should access for free, Positive Psychology from the wondrous Tal Ben Shahar   Paul Verlaine is nec plus ultra for yours truly, who has learned three of these masterpieces by heart, decades ago, and then enjoyed them ever since, even during…swimming, I used to take laps for about half...
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Evelina by Frances Burney is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, it is ranked 818th on The Greatest Books of All Time, nevertheless, it failed the capture my attention, and this is mea culpa…you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from The GOAT, 1,000 Novels and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel

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  Evelina by Frances Burney is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, it is ranked 818 th on The Greatest Books of All Time, nevertheless, it failed the capture my attention, and this is mea culpa…you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from The GOAT, 1,000 Novels and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel   7 out of 10   Alice Adams https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/alice-adams-by-booth-tarkington.html came to mind when reading about Evelina, I thought reading the latter would be as elating as the former, alas, it did not happen, and this is because of the under signed, I did not find it engaging enough, granted, there may be some reasons:   LibriVox is the site where generous volunteers donate their time, they read great works (probably some lesser ones too) that are in the public domain, one such is Evelina, and despite the kudos for the...
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La Force de L’Optimisme by Martin Seligman, who is considered one of the most eminent psychologists of the twentieth century. Founder of positive psychology, he was the president of the American Psychological Association. However, his only book with a ranking on The Greatest Books of All Time site sits at 17297; you have thousands of reviews on books from The GOAT and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel

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  La Force de L’Optimisme by Martin Seligman, who is considered one of the most eminent psychologists of the twentieth century. Founder of positive psychology, he was the president of the American Psychological Association. However, his only book with a ranking on The Greatest Books of All Time site sits at 17297; you have thousands of reviews on books from The GOAT and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel   10 out of 10   Martin Seligman https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/flourish-by-martin-seligman.html was the co-founder of Positive Psychology, and with that, he will be more consequential than the Orange American Psycho – as I write this, I have Jimmy Kimmel in the background, ridiculing the latest absurdities from the GOAT   He brags that he is the best of all time, while saying that Iran could take two blue cities, LA and San Diego, in jest, his ...
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The Checklist by Atul Gawande is ranked 13799th on The Greatest Books of All Time site – you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from The GOAT and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel

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  The Checklist by Atul Gawande is ranked 13799 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site – you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from The GOAT and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel   9 out of 10   Blink https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/blink-power-of-thinking-without.html is the marvelous psychology classic by Malcolm Gladwell that came to mind in connection with The Checklist, mostly because they both seem to explain how you can get to fabulous outcomes in ‘the blink of an eye’, or under one minute   One dazzled me in The Checklist was the segment regarding airplanes, how it became crucial in the operating of these flying machines, especially as they became more complicated: once pilots had to turn on a good number of switches, see that various systems were working, it was very easy to forget once crucial operation Ergo, the checklis...
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The Bikeriders by Danny Lyon does not seem to exist on The Greatest Books of All Time site, where I tend to check my choices, despite the fact that some of my favorites are quite far down the list – nonetheless, you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from The GOAT and other selections on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel

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  The Bikeriders by Danny Lyon does not seem to exist on The Greatest Books of All Time site, where I tend to check my choices, despite the fact that some of my favorites are quite far down the list – nonetheless, you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from The GOAT and other selections on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel   7 out of 10   Easy Rider https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/11/easy-rider-written-by-dennis-hopper.html is the ultimate motion picture on Bikeriders, the book was adapted for the big screen, and though it is not on the level of Easy Rider, it is quite good entertainment, HBO premiered this last night, which is a complicated move   They tend to put on ‘old movies’ on primetime – now that is a title we must see soon, with the ‘anti- tom Cruise’ new star, Robert Pattison – on Sunday evening, which is rather lame, considering this is a premiu...
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