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  Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant by Anthony Powell is the fifth volume of the chef d’oeuvre A Dance To The Music of Time, one of The Modern Library’s Top 100 Novels, and part of the 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read compilation, it sits at 339 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, and more importantly for this obscure corner, it is one of my Top 50 Favorites – you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other sites waiting for you on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel if you prefer   10 out of 10   A Dance to The Music of Time https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-acceptance-world-by-anthony-powell.html is spectacular when read for the second time, but I just realized it will be blissful when taken on for the third, sometime in the next few years, and since I prophesize here, why not speak of the fourth round…   One of the fabulous aspects is ho...

  Life With Father by Howard Lindsay was the 1948 Nominee for The Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role, for William Powell, he was nominated for another three Academy Awards and other trophies, it is also one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made – you find thousands of notes on films from The NYT 1,000 and other pages, together with reviews of magnum opera from The GOAT 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   Life With Father is a very good comedy, I am not sure if it would make it on my Top 1,000 Features, but then it might, one thousand productions seems like a big number – in those years, I have only seen 801 from The NYT 1,000, although there are more than 5k notes on films from other sites on my blogs and YouTube channel   A Voyage Round My Father https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-voyage-round-my-father-by-john.html comes to m...

  Erotic Tales by Alberto Moravia, the outstanding author of the chef d’oeuvre Contempt aka Disprezzo, translated as Ghost at Noon, which sits at 48 on Le Monde’s Top 100 books of The Century, it is also one of the 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, The Greatest Books of All Time’s   algorithm has it lower than I even deign to put here…nevertheless, it is one of my Top 100 Favorites – you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where my macaws are of more interest   8 out of 10   Contempt https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/contempt-by-alberto-moravia.html is a magnum opus, and if we are to compare that with Erotic Tales, then the latter would be dismissed, indeed, it is conceivably wrong to come to it with too high expectations, because one would be disappointed, and then there is   Daniel Kahnem...

  La Cosa E Altri Racconti by Alberto Moravia is part of his Erotic Tales – I am a great fan of Alberto Moravia: his chef d’oeuvre Contempt is included on Le Monde’s Top 100 Books of The Century, while The Time of Indifference is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read – I have tried to find their ranks on The Greatest Books of All Time site, only it is not working for now, you get no results, which is abominable, but then I checked with Montaigne, and he is also absent, which is anathema – you find thousands of reviews of books from the aforementioned and other pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, depending on your choice   8 out of 10   I have been mesmerized by Contempt https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/contempt-by-alberto-moravia.html the adaptation has the late Brigite Bardot in one of the leading roles, and I also remember the interpretation of Ulysses that the glorious...

  At Lady Molly’s by Anthony Powell is the fourth volume of A Dance To The Music of Time which is 43 rd on The Modern Library’s Top 100 Novels list, also one of the 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, ranked 339 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, and more importantly for this space, it is one of my Top 50 Favorites – you find thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel   10 out of 10   At Lady Molly’s was enchanting the second time https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-acceptance-world-by-anthony-powell.html A Dance To The Music of Time will surely be mesmerizing when I get to it for the third time, in a few years’ time…the plan is to put in between Kingsley Amis’ magnum opera for the second time as well   One of the very interesting characters in this fourth volume is the butler- Smith moves between ...

  Woman in A Black Cloak by Alberto Moravia is one of The Erotic Tales that seem so different from his magnum opera: Contempt aka Ghost at Noon is 48 th on Le Monde’s Top 100 books of The Century, also part of my Top 100 Favorites, while The Time of Indifference is one of the 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read – you have thousands of reviews of masterpieces from the aforementioned and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and/ or YouTube channel   8 out of 10   Contempt, or Disprezzo, which was called Ghost at Noon in English, is one of my favorite books https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/contempt-by-alberto-moravia.html and I was mesmerized by The Time of Indifference too – Contempt even has a outré theory on The Odyssey and its main protagonist   Alberto Moravia explains the long journey in a different way: Ulysses or Odysseus did not want to return to Ithaca, Penelope mainly, and that ...