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  The Letters of Seneca is one of the greatest works of philosophy, although it is ranked only 1034 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, it is defiantly one of the Top 100 for me – you find thousands of reviews on magnum opera from The GOAT and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where the stars are my macaws   10 out of 10   These are difficult times and we need Seneca https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-tao-of-seneca-by-seneca-one-of.html to help us through the war in Iran, blocking of the Hormuz strait, the expected crisis, albeit on another level, they said this before, and on many levels, we are doing so much better than in the past   In one of the books of jokes, there was this short description of various religions: Protestantism – shit won’t happen, if I work hard enough, Buddhism – is this really shit? Hinduism – this shit has happened before; C...

  Night of The Living Dead by John Russo, George Romero is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made – you find thousands of notes on films from The NYT 1,000 and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where my macaws steal the show   5 out of 10   Flow https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/flow-by-mihaly-csikszentmihalyi.html is a classic of psychology by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, co -founder of positive psychology, that looks at what brings people to The Zone, makes them have Maximum Experiences and we have some rules, conditions we could learn   One is in control, concentration is formidable, we have clear meaningful goals, time changes its normal flow, we are challenged, in the area between burnout and boredom, feedback is constant and instant, it is an autotelic experience and I take those and check them with seeing Night of The Living Dead and it is no...

  L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy is one of the 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, although on The Greatest Books of All Time site it is less prominent, in fact, it has two rankings: 2463 and 14776, and this makes me wonder if the algorithm there is insane, I have had qualms in the past, assuming that my taste is not in line with this GOAT page…nevertheless, 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   7 out of 10   I feel that with close to five hundred pages L.A. Confidential is too long, though I enjoyed the motion picture https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/la-confidential-based-on-novel-by-james.html some years ago, when I saw it: it has a Metascore of 91, which is fabulous, and it is the 126 th most popular with audiences   The book was acclaimed, which is the reason why it was adapted for the big screen, neverthe...

  The Kindly Ones by Anthony Powell is the sixth volume of the chef d’oeuvre A Dance to The Music of Time, one of Modern Library’s Top 100 Novels, also part of the 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read compilation, ranked 339 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, and more important for this corner, it is one of my Top 50 Favorites – you have a few thousand 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     10 out of 10   A Dance to The Music of Time is overwhelming https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/04/casanovas-chinese-restaurant-by-anthony.htmlat the second encounter, and I am sure it will me mesmerizing when I will read it for the third, or fourth time, Insha’Allah, if the war in Iran, the one in Ukraine and others do not prevent that   The Kindly Ones is full of surprises, meditation on life and death, even when combined with humo...

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  Boccacio ’70 written and directed by Vittorio de Sica, Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli and Luchino Visconti, based on the stories of Boccaccio – The Decameron is one of The Best 100 Books of All Time, albeit on the Bokklubben World Library list, while on The Greatest Books of All Time site, the algorithm places this at 124 th – you find thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists, and reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel   7 out of 10   I have been exhilarated by Boccaccio https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/10/los-mejores-cuentos-eroticos-aka-best.html indeed, his Decameron is one of The Top 100 Best Books of All Time, or 124 th , if you consult the newer site, The Greatest Books of All Time, which is supposed to have a powerful algorithm   It was not just a qu...