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 The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde http://realini.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-importance-of-being-earnest-by.html 9 out of 10      Oscar Wilde was a flamboyant, brilliant, amusing, inspired and for at least part of his life an unhappy, unfortunate intellectual, albeit an example comes to mind, mentioned in the ravishing The Science of Happiness – How Our Brains Make Us Happy and What We Can Do To Get Happier http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-science-of-happiness-how-our-brains.html by Stefan Klein- involving Rosa Luxembourg   As far as I can remember – or imagine I do – Rosa Luxembourg wrote some letters, or maybe in her diary, about the joy, bliss she felt, how the flowers were wonderful, the sun shining or words to that effect, expressing felicity, but she was writing that in…prison and the message is that we can be happy, even in the most adverse of circumstances, and indeed, one of the lessons of happiness is “Happiness Activity No 6: Develop...

  Three Comrades by F. Scott Fitzgerald, based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made – you have thousands of notes on films from The NYT 1,000 and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html   8 out of 10   F. Scott Fitzgerald has written the chef d’oeuvre The Great Gatsby https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-great-gatsby-by-scott-f-fitzgerald.html which is the third greatest book on the GOAT site, and it is even found at number one on other relevant web pages, clearly crème de la crème   Notwithstanding that, and the fact that he has written other magnum opera, Tender Is The Night, and mesmerizing short stories, we find that F Scott Fitzgerald (and other fabulous writers, such as William Faulkner) have been invited to Hollywood to write scripts: an anecdote with Faulkner, Howard Ha...

  Note on Foxcatcher, written by Max Frye, Dan Futterman, with Steve Carell | realini

  R.U.R. by Karel Kapek is ranked 7154 th on The Greatest Books of All Time web page, where War With The Newts by the same author is in a much better position at 756 – you have thousands of reviews on magnum opera from The GOAT and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where you see my macaws   6 out of 10   I have listened to this play before https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/rur-by-karel-capek.html and I have not been thrilled, indeed, there are two reasons to hear it again, and write a note: first, George Constantin, a thespian as good as Jack Nicholson or any other, is in it and to enjoy his voice is a treat   Second, we have been under the threat of AI for some time, and this RUR is about robots and what will happen with them, will they have rights, maybe they will rebel, there have been many incidents where A...

  Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte is the Fifteenth Greatest Book of All Time, at least if you consult the GOAT site, it is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, and yet, not one of my favorites – you find thousands of reviews on magnum opera from the aforementioned and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where my macaws are the stars   8 out of 10   This is the third review of Wuthering Heights https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/03/wuthering-heights-by-emily-bronte-is.html the most recent was posted only about one month ago, because Emerald Fennell has adapted this classic and in fact, it had the ‘premiere’ on HBO last night, at least in this realm   On Saturday (May 9, 2026) we had another version aired on TVR Cultural, at least I think it was there, and though not the best – the one with Laurence Olivier...

  Everything That Rises Must Converge is a chef d’oeuvre by Flannery O’Connor, which is ranked 494 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, and it is part of my Top 100 Favorites – you find thousands of reviews on 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 page, the latter has my macaws at the forefront   10 out of 10   Everything That Rises Must Converge https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/everything-that-rises-must-converge-by.html is a spectacular collection of short stories that is in the 494 th position on The Greatest Books of All Time site, and one of my Absolute Favorites – this is the second time that I am reading it   In fact, this time it is an audiobook format, so I am listening to the Collection – in the meantime, I have searched for Flannery O’Connor and found that she had...