Ataraxia

  The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington was the 1919 Winner of The Pulitzer Prize, it is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, also on The Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels list, if it is only 1191 st on the Greatest Books of All Time, then it is one of my Top 400 Favorites; you find thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel   9 out of 10   I was exhilarated https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/alice-adams-by-booth-tarkington.html by Alice Adams, and found The Magnificent Ambersons, if perhaps not Magnificent, well, then still excellent, and furthermore, this was on the second reading, I don’t know what I did with my first note on it though   George Amberson Minafer is the hero, or anti hero of the narrative, I may decide before the end of this review if he is the good guy, or the villain, ...

  Dark Knight Rises written by Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan and David Goyer, directed by the former is the Top-Rated Movie number 78, you have 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/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html   8 out of 10   After Dark Knight https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/09/dark-knight-written-by-christopher.html we have to have a sequel, Hollywood has been criticized for relying too much, some said exclusively on the same old thing, milking franchises to exhaustion, although on the other hand, they are very bankable and have large audiences   Marvel Cinematic Universe has brought in 34.9 billion dollars, which is impressive, except Martin Scorsese and others have talked about the death of cinema, if we will have this flood of Spidermen, Avengers and the like, then we would not have the chance to watch magnum...

  Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde is ranked 17270 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, but it was the inspiration for a motion picture with top cast, though Kevin Spacey has been downgraded in the meantime – you find thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies of All time and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html   8 out of 10 for the message   Tal Ben Shahar https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-pursuit-of-perfect-by-tal-ben-shahar.html is a Harvard Professor – in fact, after writing it, I realized that he used to be, I think he is much better off on his own now – who had the most popular courses in the history of that institution: positive psychology   He used inserts from comedy shows, Seinfeld, De Generes, stories like the one with the rabbi and all the animals in the house – you can google it, or ask me – passages from his auto...

Link to paper moon according to Mark   She looks at cathedral and doesn’t like it, though she had, just like me. It is not the cathedral that changed, it is her like Proust said   Anne linton drove Nort to Lichfield through the morning…dying father and where Samuel Johnson lived He has Parkisnon and other, he will die stanway does not rmeber a bit later who the man was, a neighbro Graham brother Don husband Judy Paul children?   Brideshead revisited copy in father’s home Link   David Fielding there will be a love affair headmaster these parents come and say their son did not do something extraordinary, even if they destroyed, he risks being what sent to jail   He says to Anne’s father he is in love with his daughter, but then the old man doesn’t get it anymore James Stanway father   ‘wicked go unpunished and the rich will inherit the kingdom of heaven link to genesis or something   She is sacked chronology is too dif...

  The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh is ranked 775 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, it is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, and it used to be one of my Top 200 Favorites, albeit I am not so sure anymore, by the time this review ends, maybe I will know better- you have thousands of notes on magnum opera from the aforementioned lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html   8 out of 10   The Loved One https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-loved-one-by-evelyn-waugh-10-out-of.html was stupendous on the first reading: ‘You must read this masterpiece, for it is hilarious, exhilarating and superb’ this is what I was saying in the note I wrote maybe ten years ago, though things have changed   It is a question of having too high expectations, but I think it has more to do with the image of Evelyn Waugh, as reflected in The Letters of Kingsley Amis- “Waugh very silly fellow he w...

  Slumdog Millionaire written by Simon Beaufoy and Vikas Swarup, directed by Danny Boyle won eight Oscars in 2009, including for Best Motion Picture of the Year, Best Achievement in Directing and Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, nevertheless, this is a film that I don’t like, so that should be the whole ‘review’…you find thousands of notes on films from The New York times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube page     6 out of 10   Trainspotting https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/trainspotting-based-on-novel-by-irvine.html directed by Danny Boyle was incredible, 127 hours and Shallow Grave were also excellent, I am not crazy about 28 Years Later, and as for Slumdog Millionaire, I will have to reiterate what I said above: rather pretentious.   Therefore, ‘the rest is silence’, just like William Shakespeare said, this is the end of the n...