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Notes made when reading The Judge and His Hangman

  The Judge and His Hangman by Friedrich Durrenmatt is 934 th on The Greatest Books of All Time, while his The Pledge is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read   Link to The Pledge On the morning of November 3 rd , Alphonse Clenin, constable of the village of Twann, came upon a blue Mercedes car by the roadside, just where the highway from Lamlingen emerges from the woods that surround the gorges of the Twann River He thought the man in the car might be drunk, so he prepared to take him for a breakfast of black coffee and porridge But then saw the man was dead, a bullet had passed though one temple and out of the other   The dead man was Ulrich Schmied, a lieutenant in the Berne police As a village constable, he had never encountered a case of such gravity   This sounds crazy, but after a few minutes, he returns to the car, pushes the body into the passenger seat and then takes the wheel!! No fuel, but it is on a steep incline, so he coas...
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Oscar and The Lady in Pink or Oscar et La Dame Rose by Eric – Emmanuel Schmitt is ranked 13714th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, as for my conclusion, I am not sure yet, maybe I will know by the end of this note

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  Oscar and The Lady in Pink or Oscar et La Dame Rose by Eric – Emmanuel Schmitt is ranked 13714 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, as for my conclusion, I am not sure yet, maybe I will know by the end of this note     <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhODnZhRkjjKbJaqofBhInS1vPtdbQ7TSG1OuYCE4tJ6LAQv7kr-kefoHr1fGZibMv8had3Q1JbsVRrY42HH8yU-EUg1RD2D5jQ6ac83ygZ5RJfuFch_xBn0b4Jz5oDykieeEIQp2RejM8L0tlPBRtrXD7MWlX6KzRS0LLTU6myolWwovTL5bi07UdW1z1r/s1600/image.jpeg" /> 8 out of 10   Fyodor Dostoevsky https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-brothers-karamazov-by-fyodor.html came to mind, because he has a segment about that child, who is caught on the estate of a boyar, ‘noble’ man who tortures the boy, at least this is how I remember it, and then we have the problem of pain, and God   Why would God, who is supposed to be omniscient and all powerful, allow such pain to be inflicted on the innocent,...
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Gazebo and I Could See the Smallest Things by Raymond Carver

  Gazebo and I Could See the Smallest Things by Raymond Carver Another version of this note and thoughts on other books are available at: -              https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEVa4_CsRStSBBDo4uJWT8BSWtTTn0N1E Gazebo In this short story we have an unhappy couple. Not exactly miserable, but far from exulting. -           I can't stand it anymore, says Holly -           I am moving to Nevada To which her partner, Duane replies with reassurances and the an expression of his affection. When they arrived at the motel they now mismanage, they were a happy couple. The pay was good and they had all incidentals covered, electricity, food. Even now, they use an apartment to make love, or something like it, with recriminations included. Juanita is partly to blame. A Mexican maid, that would probably support the Trump theory ...
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The Mud Below by Annie Proulx is the second story in the collection Close Range: Wyoming Stories, which was shortlisted for The Pulitzer Prize, won by the author for the remarkable The Shipping News, adapted for the big screen

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  The Mud Below by Annie Proulx is the second story in the collection Close Range: Wyoming Stories, which was shortlisted for The Pulitzer Prize, won by the author for the remarkable The Shipping News, adapted for the big screen     <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg07xtKX7lHAExP_Jd9tUAmuUv1T9tEZPDun9Y8s04P1h_ymcabHURlHiBTAk4tX3h5apfBNaGBB5fXWYDg1l1PMbDwe-sxOmKgHu7jqonTYqMbLN3sn8v4IK9tYpTOhoU9QskQOdfmHmuOO__7VxE7VMYk03zQZcPnKpMjQIKR7NN_lL3TbJuoZZsASVLO/w177-h316/image.jpeg" />     9 out of 10   The Shipping News https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/11/the-shipping-news-by-annie-proulx-won.html has won The Pulitzer Prize, and Close Range: Wyoming Stories was shortlisted for the same award, both the first, The Half-Skinned Steer, and The Mud Below are excellent stories, Brokeback Mountain is in this same collection too   While the first tale was somewhat terrifying, the second has drama,...
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The Half-Skinned Deer by Annie Proulx is the first story in the collection Close Range: Wyoming Stories, which was shortlisted for The Pulitzer Prize, won by the author for the remarkable The Shipping News, adapted for the big screen

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  The Half-Skinned Deer by Annie Proulx is the first story in the collection Close Range: Wyoming Stories, which was shortlisted for The Pulitzer Prize, won by the author for the remarkable The Shipping News, adapted for the big screen     <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg07xtKX7lHAExP_Jd9tUAmuUv1T9tEZPDun9Y8s04P1h_ymcabHURlHiBTAk4tX3h5apfBNaGBB5fXWYDg1l1PMbDwe-sxOmKgHu7jqonTYqMbLN3sn8v4IK9tYpTOhoU9QskQOdfmHmuOO__7VxE7VMYk03zQZcPnKpMjQIKR7NN_lL3TbJuoZZsASVLO/w177-h316/image.jpeg" /> 8 out of 10   The Shipping News https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/11/the-shipping-news-by-annie-proulx-won.html won the Pulitzer Prize for Annie Proulx, for which Close Range: Wyoming Stories was shortlisted, and I have finished the story of Quoyle recently, in fact, it was the second time, plus, I have seen the motion picture   In some ways, I have identified with Quoyle, when he was quite spineless, pathetic, he ma...
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Noted while reading The Battle of Pollocks Crossing

    Shortlisted for Booker Link to a month and Harpole report 1,000 novels   Woman flashed big bursts of gorgeousness in the train – he immediately fell in love – she told him some things; a new magazine dedicated to literary digestion had made it needless ever again to read a book   On May 20 th , 1929, George Gidner travelled by cheap-day excursion train to London…interview and then he was considered unsually well suited (he listed well to the opinions of the two men in charge) to represent England’s youth in the USA   Link to Lodge for the girl who jumps on him Henry Farewell president of local bank, landlord and the girl’s father Wounded knee was a masscare, but George saying it means trouble – he is sacked Bank collapsed they invade the shop ad take everything Just one day before Geroge is supposed to leave, July 5 th In nfacct, Henry had given all away to farers, he has nothing left but the clothes and they want to find him an...
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Native Son by Richard Wright is 20th on The Modern Library’s Best 100 Novels site, appears among the All-TIME 100 Novels, it is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read and it is ranked 111th on The Greatest Books of All Time site

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  Native Son by Richard Wright is 20 th on The Modern Library’s Best 100 Novels site, appears among the All-TIME 100 Novels, it is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read and it is ranked 111 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site     <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhODnZhRkjjKbJaqofBhInS1vPtdbQ7TSG1OuYCE4tJ6LAQv7kr-kefoHr1fGZibMv8had3Q1JbsVRrY42HH8yU-EUg1RD2D5jQ6ac83ygZ5RJfuFch_xBn0b4Jz5oDykieeEIQp2RejM8L0tlPBRtrXD7MWlX6KzRS0LLTU6myolWwovTL5bi07UdW1z1r/s1600/image.jpeg" /> 10 out of 10   Somehow, Native Son reminds me of The Son https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/11/the-son-by-philipp-meyer-was-finalist.html and since I am close to my rating of 10 out of 10, I must amend that, to some extent – why am I using commas, Duras, anyway, somebody quoted in The Cost of Living dismisses them –   It feels as if Native Son is more than just one novel, or at least, there are a few narratives, themes...
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