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Creating a New Robinson Crusoe by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov, the authors of the magnificent, hilarious Twelve Chairs and The Golden Calf, favorites of mine, though only 1815th and 1387th on the Greatest Books of All Time – you can find a few thousand 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

septembrie 10, 2026

Creating a New Robinson Crusoe by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov, the authors of the magnificent, hilarious Twelve Chairs and The Golden Calf, favorites of mine, though only 1815 th and 1387 th on the Greatest Books of All Time – you can find a few thousand 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 9 out of 10 Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-twelve-chairs-by-ilf-and-petrov.html have delighted, dazzled this reader, and The Creation of New Robinson, though not on the level of their two masterpieces, shows the talent that the two Russian authors have, besides, this is also a criticism of propaganda Especially the Soviet one, at least this is what comes across this adaptation for The National Radio that I have listed to- Fyodor Maltzev is twenty-eight, and in love with Sonja, he comes to her home, to ask ...

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Patricide is the last narrative in Lovely, Dark Deep by Joyce Carol Oates, which is a Collection of short stories that 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 on a multitude of magnum opera https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html

septembrie 09, 2026

Patricide is the last narrative in Lovely, Dark Deep by Joyce Carol Oates, which is a Collection of short stories that 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 on a multitude of magnum opera https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html 9 out of 10 Patricide ends Lovely, Dark, Deep https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/09/lovely-dark-deep-by-joyce-carol-oates.html nominated for The Pulitzer Prize, and this last part is listed as a novella, the rest are short stories, including the one which gives the name to the oeuvre, preceding Patricide, and sharing some of the subject In the previous short story, Robert Frost is the main character, a celebrated poet, interviewed by Evangeline Fife, a young woman who exposes the flaws o...

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Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann is one of The Bokklubben World Library’s Greatest 100 Books of All Time, the Swedish Academy identified "the great novel Buddenbrooks" as the principal reason for The Nobel Prize awarded to Thomas Mann, it is ranked 88th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, and it is one of my favorites – for more reviews you could visit https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html

septembrie 08, 2026

Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann is one of The Bokklubben World Library’s Greatest 100 Books of All Time, the Swedish Academy identified "the great novel Buddenbrooks" as the principal reason for The Nobel Prize awarded to Thomas Mann, it is ranked 88 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, and it is one of my favorites – for more reviews you could visit https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html 10 out of 10 Thomas Mann has two masterpieces https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/magic-mountain-by-thomas-mann.html among The 100 Greatest Books, and one of them is Buddenbrooks, which I seem to have appreciated less, when I first read it, or more probably, there was something, maybe some crisis which affected the experience Buddenbrooks is so elating, marvelous that I will write at least another note, I have decided so much happened by now, after about eight hours in the audiobook, that I have to try...

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Withnail & I, written and directed by Bruce Robinson ---- 10 out of 10

septembrie 08, 2026

Withnail & I, written and directed by Bruce Robinson 10 out of 10 Notes and thoughts on other books are available at: - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEVa4_CsRStSBBDo4uJWT8BSWtTTn0N1E and http://realini.blogspot.ro/ Withnail & I is a glorious comedy that is included in my personal top twenty and I think Time Out has listed as the best ever. There is a funny aspect regarding the preview, during which nobody in the audience laughed…not even once… - Nevertheless, it was discovered that the members of the public… were Germans…and could not speak English And this is mostly a dialogue film, even if there are many scenes were we could laugh out loud at the face of Withnail or his friend, for the latter, especially when he is approached by a very horny Monty. At the start of the film, one could almost feel sor...

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Lovely, Dark Deep by Joyce Carol Oates is a Collection of short stories that 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 on a multitude of magnum opera https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html

septembrie 07, 2026

Lovely, Dark Deep by Joyce Carol Oates is a Collection of short stories that 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 on a multitude of magnum opera https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html 9 out of 10 Lovely, Dark, Deep https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/09/lovely-dark-deep-by-joyce-carol-oates.html is a collection of short stories that was nominated for The Pulitzer Prize and I have already written a review on the first few, these lines will take care of rest, allegedly, except for Patricide, which will be analyzed separately…I am being facetious "Forked River Roadside Shrine, New Jersey’ is about this accident, in which the driver, who was under the influence of both alcohol and drugs (if I remember correctly), ...

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Hatter’s Castle by A. J. Cronin

septembrie 07, 2026

Hatter’s Castle by A. J. Cronin George Bernard Shaw once said some intriguing things about Hitler, in a televised speech that I saw in a documentary about him. Shaw was a…show off. In the same film, he was turning around and saying to the camera this is my left side, now my front… on Hitler he had some good things to say, shockingly. But in a coup de grace, Shaw wended by saying something along these lines: - the only other thing is that: humanity would have been better off if Hitler had never existed The same thing can be said about James Brodie, the main character in Hatter’s Castle. He is perfect, to borrow Shaw’s irony, but only as a negative personage. It is difficult to think of someone else who is so evil, even if names do come to mind: Saruman, Mephisto, and Jack Nicholson aka Johnny in The Shining…as it happens, the test on myself provided two non-human roles. Yes, most of time we have a negative counterpart fo...

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