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  La Cosa E Altri Racconti by Alberto Moravia is part of his Erotic Tales – I am a great fan of Alberto Moravia: his chef d’oeuvre Contempt is included on Le Monde’s Top 100 Books of The Century, while The Time of Indifference is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read – I have tried to find their ranks on The Greatest Books of All Time site, only it is not working for now, you get no results, which is abominable, but then I checked with Montaigne, and he is also absent, which is anathema – you find thousands of reviews of books from the aforementioned and other pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, depending on your choice   8 out of 10   I have been mesmerized by Contempt https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/contempt-by-alberto-moravia.html the adaptation has the late Brigite Bardot in one of the leading roles, and I also remember the interpretation of Ulysses that the glorious...

  At Lady Molly’s by Anthony Powell is the fourth volume of A Dance To The Music of Time which is 43 rd on The Modern Library’s Top 100 Novels list, also one of the 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, ranked 339 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, and more importantly for this space, it is one of my Top 50 Favorites – you find thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel   10 out of 10   At Lady Molly’s was enchanting the second time https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-acceptance-world-by-anthony-powell.html A Dance To The Music of Time will surely be mesmerizing when I get to it for the third time, in a few years’ time…the plan is to put in between Kingsley Amis’ magnum opera for the second time as well   One of the very interesting characters in this fourth volume is the butler- Smith moves between ...

  Woman in A Black Cloak by Alberto Moravia is one of The Erotic Tales that seem so different from his magnum opera: Contempt aka Ghost at Noon is 48 th on Le Monde’s Top 100 books of The Century, also part of my Top 100 Favorites, while The Time of Indifference is one of the 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read – you have thousands of reviews of masterpieces from the aforementioned and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and/ or YouTube channel   8 out of 10   Contempt, or Disprezzo, which was called Ghost at Noon in English, is one of my favorite books https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/contempt-by-alberto-moravia.html and I was mesmerized by The Time of Indifference too – Contempt even has a outré theory on The Odyssey and its main protagonist   Alberto Moravia explains the long journey in a different way: Ulysses or Odysseus did not want to return to Ithaca, Penelope mainly, and that ...

  The Man With The Golden Arm by Nelson Algren was the 1956 Nominee for three Oscars, including for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Frank Sinatra, it is also one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, having seen this one, I am now at 801 features checked on this NYT 1,000 site, and you find thousands of notes on films from this an other pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, if you prefer it that way   7 out of 10   I have not been impressed by The Man With The Golden Arm, The Tender Trap https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-tender-trap-by-max-shulman-and.html is another Sinatra vehicle I have seen recently and neither finds a place on my list of Top 500, not even The Best 2,000 or more   ‘to be honest’ – we have learned in some AT&T training that one should not use something like that, because it makes it look as if in the other situations you are not...

  An Evening With Groucho Marx by Groucho Marx – he was the leader of one of the best comedy teams of all time: their Night at The Opera and Duck Soup are the among the greatest comedies of all time (again) – you find thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel   8 out of 10   Groucho Marx was one of the best comedians ever https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/04/a-night-at-opera-with-marx-brothers.html with his brothers he blessed audiences with some masterpieces, and he has also left some memorable quotes – ‘I will not belong to a club that would have me as a member’ is just one of them   An Evening With Groucho was something like the stand up acts we see today, maybe he invented the genre, at the start, we hear a new anecdote, at least it was new for me: he has lunch with the presenter – als...

  Black Sunday by Thomas Harris is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, although it is ranked only 5375 th on the Greatest Books of All Time, the author has two other books that are acclaimed: Red Dragon, and the better known Silence of The Lambs – The Orange American Psycho keeps talking about the ‘great Hannibal Lecter’, but then he is so much off his rocker that this only confirms the diagnosis – you find thousands of notes on magnum opera from the aforementioned and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and my well hidden YouTube channel   7 out of 10   Everyone knows about Silence of The Lambs https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2023/12/silence-of-lambs-based-on-novel-by.html even the American Orange Psycho who keeps talking about the ‘great Hannibal Lecter’, either because he has no idea who that is, or he fancies himself as another serial killer, and he likes those monsters   We d...