Ataraxia

  Pardon, scuzati, bonsoir by Andrei Plesu is a short, hilarious, if at times saddening, and excellent text – you find thousands of reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel   10 out of 10   Andrei Plesu https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2023/11/toleranta-si-intolerabilulcriza-unui.html is the greatest thinker in my land, and one of the most intelligent, charming, erudite, humorous, mesmerizing luminaries of our age, and of all time, come to think of it – among other things, he makes me reconsider faith, religion   He has written wonderful books, essays, he even reads some of those, and we can hear him on YouTube, or else I have bought some disks, maybe twenty years ago, when you would insert those and then you could listen to audiobooks, today you stream those, albeit, there are multiple options, LibriVox, Gutenbe...

  Cold Mountain written and directed by Anthony Minghella was nominated for seven Oscars, including for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Jude Law, and it Won The Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Renée Zellweger took it…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   6 out of 10   I have seen Cold Mountain before https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/06/cold-mountain.html and I was disappointed, since it keeps coming up on film channels that I surf through, once in a while I have a glimpse at what was supposed to be a major oeuvre, maybe it is, only I cannot see it and here is mea culpa   Also, a spoiler alert might be required, so that I do not have complaints, regarding not the ending or anything like that, but the fact that I veer off the subject, ergo, all I had to say is already above, I ...

  Anglo Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, but it is ranked only 1921 st on The Greatest Books of All Time site – after I had read this the first time, I have included in in my Top 200, but after the second encounter, I am not sure about the personal Top 1,000…nonetheless, 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 my macaws take center stage   8 out of 10   I have been ecstatic https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/anglo-saxon-attitudes-by-angus-wilson.html when I have read Anglo Saxon Attitudes, so much so that I have read it again, only to be mildly disassociated, not that it is a bad book, but it was a question of having too high expectations, and having changed   One clear objection would be size, at about 350 pages, it is not long, notwithstandi...