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  Dirty Tricks by Michael Dibdin is one of the five oeuvres by the same author which are included on The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read list, although it is ranked only 6846 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site – you find reviews of magnum opera and lesser works from the aforementioned and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel   8 out of 10   Michael Dibdin https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/a-rich-full-death-by-michael-dibdin.html is the author of five detective books that are on The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read list, he has written much more, but these are among the best, at least according to The Guardian, others disagree, and Dirty Tricks is just 6846 th on The GOAT site   With this mystery, I have read all five: Ratking, Dead Lagoon, Dirty Tricks, A Rich Full Death, Vendetta…the feeling I have now is that I liked Ratking best, and then Dead Lagoon...

  Trying to find What is the essence of The Lighthouse by Alison Moore 10 out of 10     If we start with the end of The Lighthouse – which might mean that there is a spoiler alert right here…but wait, maybe I am not about to reveal any secrets just yet, so why don’t you just stay tuned, for now, unless of course, you consider the merits of what I am about to put down here and then be warned, there is not much to keep you here – then I am reminded on the exquisite, magnetic, bravo bravissimo The Dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-dressmaker-by-beryl-bainbridge-10.html , where something dramatic, final, coming after an incredible crescendo happens on the last page and though details are scarce, readers cannot be sure as to what happens to Futh – or are you…if you have not read it, maybe you let me know when you will have finished it – but it is ominous and if we have paid attention – concentration is a condition sine qua non for happines...

  Syriana written by Stephen Gaghan and Robert Baer, and directed by the former is the 2006 Winner of The Oscar for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, George Clooney was excellent as Bob Barnes, and was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay – you find thousands of noted on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel   9 out of 10   I had already written https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/02/syriana-based-on-book-by-robert-baer-94.html about Syriana, but it was included in the program of one of the twenty or more film channels last night, and I took a few looks, in between advertising, saw George Clooney while his tormentor, was extracting his nails   Syriana has themes that are vital right now: Middle Wast conflict, oil, America, the CIA, nevertheless, what was h...

  Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee is about The Monkey Trial, but seems relevant seeing what has happened in America over the past decade – you find thousands of reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where my macaws are resplendent   8 out of 10   Spencer Tracy https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/12/fathers-little-dividend-directed-by.html was one of the greatest thespians, and he has the role of Henry Drummond in the film adaptation of the play, and he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading role for his excellent performance, albeit Burt Lancaster would win, for Elmer Gantry   The film version was also nominated for another three Academy Awards, including for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, indeed, it seemed a marvelous story when I fi...

        Project hail mary link                                                                                          What we need is a man who is attracted by what drives other people to madness A man who is impassioned by death   Success blinds all Chaucer   His mind is what he does with his memories, there is no other mind like it …in a sense, man is his own creation   There is reason to think it exists in more than three special dimensions   Who can decide it is time for a man to die…...

The best 20 from 2000 guardian       A Season in Sinji by JL Carr again   Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding         272p       librivox Tom Jones by Henry Fielding                     975          librivox Michael Frayn again   Eric Hodgkins Blandings maybe again   L’Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (Gil Blas) Alain-René Lesage              608 p      David Lodge          again, still one to go   Cakes and Ale - Or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard by W Somerset Maugham    again   Magnus Mill yes Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov La Disparition by Georges Perec to ki...