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  La Chute by Albert Camus is ranked 768 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, where The Stranger is at 22, but the latter is Number One on the Le Monde’s Top 100 Novels – you find thousands of reviews of 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 the macaws steal the show   8 out of 10   L’Etranger https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/12/letranger-by-albert-camus-10-out-of-10.html is one of the Greatest Books of All Time, indeed, the GOAT site has it at 22, while Le Monde has this chef d’oeuvre at Number One on its Top 100 Best Novels, it is one of my Top 50 Favorites, with its astounding start:   “Aujourd'hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas. J'ai reçu un télégramme de l’asile: « Mère décédée. Enterrement demain. Sentiments distingués. » Cela ne veut rien dire. C'était peut-être hier.” Nevertheless,...

  The Valley of Bones by Anthony Powell is the seventh volume of the chef d’oeuvre A Dance To The Music of Time, which is on several important sites: The Modern Library’s Top 100 Novels, 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, on The Greatest Books of All Time – albeit here it has fallen from 339 th to 341 st – and more importantly for this corner of the internet, it is one of my Top 50 Favorites – you have thousands of reviews of 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 you meet my macaws   10 out of 10   I have read The Valley of Bones https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-valley-of-bones-by-anthony-powell.html and enjoyed the first time, and now for the second, I am thinking that there may be a third, Insha’Allah, if The Valley of Bones does not extend to this place, in that this war gets to our realm and then we have Armageddon ...

  The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, with the original title Le Scaphandre et Le Papillon, by Ronald Howard, based on the memoir by Jean -Dominique Bauby was nominated for four Oscars in 2008, including the ones for Best Achievement in Directing for Julian Schnabel, and for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay for Ronald Harwood, it is an outstanding work of art – 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, where my macaws help with the reviews   9 out of 10   Stumbling On Happiness https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/02/stumbling-on-happiness-by-david-gilbert.html by Harvard Professor Daniel Gilbert is a life changing book, it looks at what people think will make them happy, there is also The Hedonic Adaptation Effect, we adapt to almost anything and I was thinking about that   Consider...

  Kind Hearts and Coronets by Robert Hamer is on The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made list, it was remade recently as How To Make a Killing, but alas, the latter is quite disappointing – you have thousands of notes on films from the NYT 1,000 and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where the stars are my macaws   8 out of 10   I have already expressed some views on Kind Hearts and Coronets, although that was in the form of a video note, with my macaws in the background https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/04/note-on-kind-hearts-and-coronets.html now I am under the impression of the new adaptation – How to Make a Killing   Louis from the first, much better, version has now become Becket Redfellow, the antihero who is showing the audience How To Make a Killing, or better still, to abstain from any such temptation, seeing that he is about to die…we know this ea...

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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...