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  The Wind in The Willows by Kenneth Grahame is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, it is ranked 139 th on The Greatest Books of All Times site – you find thousands of reviews of books from these and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html   7 out of 10   Animal Farm https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/08/animal-farm-by-george-orwell-one-of.html is one of the masterpieces of world literature and maybe the only book with animals that I enjoyed, fauna as in they populate the narrative, there are fish, dogs and what not in other novels, evidently, like here In The Willows   Alas, Wind in The Willows was not my cup of tea, and here my ‘review’ should end, your interest, if there ever was one, should also fade, or disappear, so I hope I will not get some retribution, like a few days ago, when this fella read what I posted and then he got aggravated because I am vain, it was a note abou...

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  One Fat Englishman by Kingsley Amis is a spectacular novel, I have read it for the second time now and I was enthused…you find thousands of reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html 10 10 out of 10   I have already read A Fat Englishman https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/one-fat-englishman-by-kingsley-amis.html and I was so enchanted that I took it up again…indeed, I will read all of the Kingsley Amis oeuvre a second time, this time in chronological order, that is, following the order of their publishing   One Fat Englishman appears to be unique in that the main character is obnoxious, or at least he could appear that way, I for one sympathized, and surely identified with his shortcomings – some of them, I am not fat, and I am joking now, the repulsive sides, the homophobia, and there is so much I better stop do not represent me ...

  The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett is included on some of the most prestigious lists, including The Bokklubben World Library Best 100 Books of All Time, Le Monde’s Best 100 Novels, 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, it is ranked 274th on the Greatest Books of All Time site, alas, it is not one of my Top 1,000 Favorites, not even if I go up to 5k I am afraid – you find 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   6 out of 10 on a personal level, though 10 out of 10 elsewhere   I have enjoyed Waiting For Godot https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/04/waiting-for-godot-by-samuel-beckett.html and I even remember seeing it on the stage of The Nottara theater, with a brilliant actor in one of the roles   Notwithstanding that, trying to stay ‘tuned’ to the Trilogy: Molloy, Malone dies and now The Unnamable was a different matter, quite a challenge, and ...

      ‘Good evening, Smith,’ said Lovell, rather grandly. ‘’Evening,’ said Smith, speaking without the smallest suggestion of warmth. ‘How are you, Smith?’ Smith looked Lovell up and down as if he considered the enquiry not merely silly, but downright insulting. He did not answer. ‘Is her Ladyship upstairs?’ ‘Where do you think she’d be—in the basement?’ . I am more and more coming to think that Smith is more trouble than he is worth. It’s convenient to have a manservant in the house, but I found this morning we were completely out of gin, and I know at least two inches remained in the bottle left when we went to bed last night.’ ‘Sherry, m’lord?’ It was impossible to tell from Smith’s vacant, irascible stare whether he had never before been asked for sherry since his first employment at Thrubworth; or whether he had himself, quite simply, drunk all the sherry that remained. Erridge’s voice admitted the exceptional nature of the enquiry. He asked a...

  The Life of Emile Zola by Norman Reilly Raine, Heinz Herald Geza Herczeg was nominated for nine Academy Awards in 1938 and won three of the most important: Best Picture, Paul Muni, Best Actor in a Leading Role, also Paul Muni, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Joseph Schildkraut, Best Writing, Original Story – it 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   8 out of 10   I have seen another excellent motion picture, J’accuse https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/jaccuse-aka-officer-and-spy-written-by_28.html which deals with the same subject, although J’accuse had Roman Polanski at the helm, and thus it was controversial, though I found it radiant   The Life of Emile Zola leaves the climax, The Dreyfuss Affair for the last part, while we find more about Emile Zola in the rest: h...