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  The Trial by Franz Kafka has climbed one place since last July (2025) and it is now 20 th on The Greatest Books of All time site - we have the term Kafkaesque from this classic, indeed, we have another two magnum opera, The Castle and The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka, included on the Bokklubben World Library (Norwegian: Verdensbiblioteket) list of The Best 100 Books of All Time – more than five thousand reviews from both lists, and others, are posted on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where the macaws run the show Kafkaesque has become Trumpian today? I wonder…   9 out of 10   I have posted a review of The Trial https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-trial-by-franz-kafka-is-in-21st.html and more importantly, I think I have lived in a ‘Kafkaesque’ universe, seeing that Ceausescu was the ruler in these parts until 1989, and even after his demise, it was still an absurd environm...

  Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey Oscar and Lucinda is an outstanding, magnificent, flamboyant, mesmerizing, stupendous chef d'oeuvre. We could use an expression from another masterpiece by the same author, The True History of the Kelly Gang and say that this novel is " adjectival". Not that it is so clear to anyone from the first chapter and that this is an easy read, without depth and many layers of suggestions, knowledge, truth and revelation. This reader had abandoned the reading after finding it somewhat cumbersome and concerned with religious aspects and beliefs that are not of extreme interest to everyone. It was a terrible mistake, corrected Alhamdullilah after a second try that proved to be such an extreme joy as to be compared with some of the moments of jubilation felt by one of the heroes. Oscar tries to determine what denomination is best for him, if he should follow in the footsteps of his awkward, rather possessed father, join the Anglican Church or else f...

  Foxcatcher Screenplay by Max Frye and Dan Futterman is the Winner of Best Director at The 2014 Cannes Film Festival for Bennett Miller, where it was nominated for The Palme d'Or, it was also nominated for   five Academy Awards, including for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role -Steve Carell, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role - Mark Ruffalo, Best Achievement in Directing, Best Writing, Original Screenplay, indeed, it is a wondrous motion picture – you find thousands of notes 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 page, where my macaws are the attraction   9 out of 10   I have seen and enjoyed Foxcatcher https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/05/note-on-foxcatcher.html at least a couple of times, I have already posted a video note, where you get t...

  Weaveworld by Clive Barker is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, allegedly, while on The Greatest Books of All Time site it is ranked only 3790 th , and last but not least, it is not even there on my own list – you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from The GOAT and other web pages on my blog   https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, check my macaws there   7 out of 10   We find from According To Mark https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/according-to-mark-by-penelope-lively.html that the novelist has an infinity of choices, He chooses what is to happen, to happens, and in what way he will relate what happens, the picture he constructs is complete on its own terms…when he says this is the story and the whole story we must accept it…perhaps novelists are the only people telling the truth’ concluding hence that the writer is god – ...

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  Books Do furnish A Room by Anthony Powell is the fabulous tenth volume of the chef d’oeuvre A Dance To The Music, which is included on some (actually, it must be all) of the most relevant lists: The Modern Library 100 Best Novels, The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, it is ranked 342 nd on The Greatest Books of All Time, and more importantly for this corner, it is one of my Top 50 Favorites – you find thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other lists on my blog   https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where you can check my macaws   10 out of 10   I have been exhilarated by A Dance To The Music of Time https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-military-philosophers-by-anthony.html so Books Do Furnish A Room should not have been a surprise, and yet, it was fantastic beyond belief, you have everything inside   ...