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  Aguirre, The Wrath of God aka Der Zorn Gottes directed by Werner Herzog, with Klaus Kinski in the lead role A different version of this note and thoughts on other books are available at: -               https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEVa4_CsRStSBBDo4uJWT8BSWtTTn0N1E   and    http://realini.blogspot.ro/ This is one of the best films ever made and it is included on the TIME Magazine List of Best 100 Movies It was filmed in extreme circumstances and the director Werner Herzog gives some details in a documentary about His Dear Friend. Klaus Kinski, who plays the lead role in Aguirre was a fascinating and disturbed man. I will return to the subject later. But Don Lope de Aguirre is also an adventurous man, with many psychological issues. Klaus Kinski could have gone wild and perorate with emphatic gusto. But he keeps everything under control, even when he does get worked up. From th...

  In Intimitatea Secolului 19 by Ioana Parvulescu is an excellent book – you find thousands of reviews on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel   10 out of 10   Ioana Parvulescu is most likely the most important female luminary in our land, and she would be able to ‘compete’ with any intellectual elsewhere, this work is a proof of her talent, she brings readers in The Intimacy of The Nineteenth Century, which would be the approximate, maybe even the correct translation of the title   She has worked at Humanitas https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/10/sebastian-mon-frerescrisoare-catre-un.html and she is one of the national elites, along Gabriel Liiceanu, Andrei Plesu, she is a professor of Romanian Literature at the University, she had been an editor at Romania Literara, and…I used to see her often Which means she most likely lives downtown, anyway, the University is there, just like ...

  The Killers by Ernest Hemingway is one of The Stories which are ranked 655 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, and furthermore, the adaptation for the big screen from 1946 is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made – I am more a fan of the stories of Hemingway than his more celebrated oeuvres, or magnum opera maybe I should say…you have thousands of reviews of books from The GOAT and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html     9 out of 10   I have already written a review of The Killers https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-killers-by-ernest-hemingway.html one of the Stories of Ernest Hemingway which are quite high in the hierarchy of The Greatest Books of All Time, and indeed, they are favored by this reader, who was not elated by A Farewell to Arms   The Sun Also Rises was almost a favorite, until I have read it the second time and then it fell out of...

  Cafeneaua Anului 1900 by Max Rosseti An interesting satire   It reminds me of Caragiale. There are a series of very short, but relevant tales of evils that affect the life of our people in the present and past. One of the vignettes refers to a familiar situation, where two supposed friends are involved, with a third party interested but in absentia -            The child of a friend has a problem -            Yes… -            He was given a bad evaluation -            And… -            He is a good guy -            I see -            But the damn teacher gave him a three -          ...

  Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read according to one critic, and ranked only 2332 nd by the algorithm used on The Greatest Books of All Time site, I will go even further and say that it is not withing the Top 10k with me, notwithstanding the fact that this list has not been compiled and most likely it will never be…you have 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   6 out of 10   Sunset Song made me think of Lark Rise to Candleford https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/07/over-to-candleford-by-flora-thompson-is.html another novel about rural life, except I could engage with the latter, nay, the three novels contain within, but alas, Sunset Song is beyond me, difficult to follow and thus The Departed for yours, truly   Indeed, it is on one important list, The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must...

  Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain is included on The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read list, albeit it is only 2445 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, if you ask me, the former classification is deserved – 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 waiting for you   9 out of 10   Huckleberry Finn https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-by.html is one of The 100 Best Books of All Time, Ernest Hemingway said ‘All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.’ Now, I do not appreciate Hemingway all that much…   I agree that this is one of the Best 1,000 Novels, even if the algorithm of the GOAT site placed it only 2445 ...