Ataraxia

  Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman 10 out of 10     I admire Maggie Haberman to the point where if she is invited on CNN, where she is an analyst, i stop what i am doing and pay attention, for she always has something interesting to share, then there is the charming voice, the appealing attitude, and the smartness of what a very pertinent thiner has to say...   Counterintuitevely perhpas, it is also funny, because the subject she is such an expert on (obviously along with many other things) is the very opposite, a loud, uncontrelled, iratic, emphatic, pompous, strident, preposterous, foolish fellow, and when she presents herself, it makes the mouse so much smaller. There is a Latin saying ‚parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’ and this describes perfectly The Confidence Man in my view (which would enhanced by this marvelous book) since he promises so much, ‚you will win so much, you will be tired of winnin...

  Note on Charlie Wilson’s War, written by Aaron Sorkin, based on the book... | realini

Journey to Ixtlan by Carlos Castaneda is supposed to be one of The Fifty Spiritual Classics, they are listed in a book by Tom Butler -Bowden, reviewed on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/maybe-you-have-some-ideas-click-on-link.html   7 out of 10   Journey to Ixtlan has good advice and offers the possibility for transcendence, perhaps obtain a Higher state of consciousness – or The Highest State of Consciousness – which is exactly what we need, if it brings about Nirvana, as per the definition, then there is Noting else to look for, for you get there when there are   -           No more cravings   However, hoi polloi, people like this reader find it difficult to take off, to get to Flow https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/flow-by-mihaly-csikszentmihalyi.html instead, I found aspects that were annoying, this Wizard Don Juan   appeared irritating, aggressive and insulting, which ...

  The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell 11 out of 10 as a Definite, Ultimate Magnum Opus The Siege of Krishnapur is not just a winner of the prestigious Booker Prize -  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_winners_and_shortlisted_authors_of_the_Booker_Prize - for 1973 , it is also shortlisted for the Best of the Booker and it is indeed one of the best books one can ever read in that it is extraordinarily comprehensive, investing time in the middle of a terrible Siege to ask and give some pertinent, if often from opposing camps answers to some of the most relevant questions regarding God, the different faiths and the attitude to life – as represented by the clash between two cultures (in the middle of the fight culture is dismissed by one of the protagonists of the conflict) and one figure comes to mind, that of the ‘Prime Minister’, the Indian who is introspective, meditative throughout and he is not moved by any of the catastrophic events taking place around him. The attac...

  Note on The Deer Hunter, writer, director Michael Cimino, with Robert de... | realini

  Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann is on The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read list, but perhaps more importantly, you find it on the 911 th spot on The Greatest Books of All Time site, which uses an algorithm that has taken in more than sixty compilations with the best works – many of these are reviewed on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/maybe-you-have-some-ideas-click-on-link.html   7 out of 10   The omens were good: there is an appealing introduction, only somehow, within it, there is the sense that this is the key to all of this Valley of The Dolls, just like it tells you about Everest, and how you have some sort of disappointment, once you reach that top, explained very well by Harvard Professor Daniel Gilbert…   In his classic of psychology Stumbling on Happiness https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/stumbling-on-happiness-by-david-gilbert.html he looks at situations where we say I would be so happy, if only, and this...