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The Opposing Shore is ranked 594th on The Greatest Books of All Time and that is why I have tried to approach it, without success: it does not make it on my GOAT list, not if we stop at the ten thousand mark – nevertheless, you find reviews on books from the aforementioned list on my blog, thousands of them https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and notes on films as well

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  The Opposing Shore is ranked 594 th on The Greatest Books of All Time and that is why I have tried to approach it, without success: it does not make it on my GOAT list, not if we stop at the ten thousand mark – nevertheless, you find reviews on books from the aforementioned list on my blog, thousands of them https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and notes on films as well   6 out of 10   This was not for me, albeit, if I were to take the time, find some resilience, patience somewhere, who knows, it may have worked (wonders?) as it is, Seneca https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/06/on-shortness-of-life-by-seneca.html said that ‘life is not short, if we manage time in the proper way, and not waste it’   It was not like that, but you can google for the exact quote, the gist of it being in this particular situation that maybe The Opposing Shore is fantastic for you, it was for many critics, ergo the exact position ...

Note on Rebel Without a Cause

  Note on Rebel Without a Cause, with Natalie Wood and James Dean | realini

Thérèse Desqueyroux by François Mauriac of The French Academy, winner of The Nobel Prize for Literature in 1952 - “The novel is Mauriac's best known work, and was described as "outstanding" in the biography that accompanied his Nobel Literature Prize citation” – it is ranked 708th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, and 35th on The Le Monde’ 100 Books of The Century – you find thousands of reviews of books from those two and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html

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  Thérèse Desqueyroux by François Mauriac of The French Academy, winner of The Nobel Prize for Literature in 1952 - “The novel is Mauriac's best known work, and was described as "outstanding" in the biography that accompanied his Nobel Literature Prize citation” – it is ranked 708 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, and 35 th on The Le Monde’ 100 Books of The Century – you find thousands of reviews of books from those two and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html   8 out of 10   This acclaimed novel has reminded me of Anatomy of a Fall https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/01/one-of-top-three-films-of-2023-anatomy.html one of the top three films of 2023, in which a woman is accused of killing her husband, and we have a trial to decide the verdict   However, this book starts with…the acquittal, Therese is not guilty – I understand that the narrative is based on a real case, in which t...

Fuenteovejuna by Lope de Vega – you find thousands of reviews of plays and books from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites, plus notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html

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  Fuenteovejuna by Lope de Vega – you find thousands of reviews of plays and books from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites, plus notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html   6 out of 10   This play somehow fell into my lap…of course it did not, it is just a manner of speaking, and sometime a change is required   Stefan Klein https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-science-of-happiness-how-our-brains.html is the fabulous author of The Science of Happiness, in which he argues for the need to change, also explained under The Lasagna Effect by Harvard Professor Tal Ben Shahar: he likes lasagna, but not all day, every day There are some aspects of this play which I liked, the people of the village of Fuenteovejuna prove to be brave, although in the first part, I was thinking that this monster, Fernán Gómez de Guzm...

The Snake Pit by Mary Jane Ward was adapted for the big screen and the film is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made – you have thousands of notes on motion pictures from The NYT 1,000 and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html

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  The Snake Pit by Mary Jane Ward was adapted for the big screen and the film is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made – you have thousands of notes on motion pictures 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   One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/one-flew-over-cuckoos-nest.html might be the best known motion picture about, well, a cuckoo’s nest, which in a rather vulgar way refers to a mental institution, where McMurphy enters voluntarily, thinking this is an escape from prison   In The Snake Pit Olivia de Havilland has the leading role of Virginia Stuart Cunningham, a woman that is hospitalized and suffers because of her issues, she does not know her husband anymore, indeed, she has a period of months that is deleted from her memory, slowly, she may get to the cause of her illness, with help Olivia de H...

Ringworld by Larry Niven is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, albeit it is ranked only 2203rd on The Greatest Books of All Time site – you find thousands of reviews on books from both lists and others on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel

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  Ringworld by Larry Niven is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, albeit it is ranked only 2203 rd on The Greatest Books of All Time site – you find thousands of reviews on books from both lists and others on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel   8 out of 10   I have approached the Ringworld https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/06/ringworld-by-larry-niven-is-one-of-1000.html before, and I was not enchanted, giving it only 7 out of 10 then, now this is raised to 8 out of 10, and it might have been higher, the problem is mine, and it has to do with the inability to grasp the magnitude of the book   There are many aspects that I have found elating: take the fact that Louis Wu is…200 years and Teela Brown, his lover, is 20 , from this you might, I did, conclude that we have a bright future on one hand, on the other, this is not a Panglossian perspective, however much I like that ...

The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout and Miled Swarthout was adapted for the big screen and that motion picture is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made; nevertheless, it does jot make it on my own Best 1,000 Movies list, because it is good, but not overwhelming for this cinephile…you find 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

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  The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout and Miled Swarthout was adapted for the big screen and that motion picture is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made; nevertheless, it does jot make it on my own Best 1,000 Movies list, because it is good, but not overwhelming for this cinephile…you find 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     7 out of 10   John Wayne https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/12/rio-bravo-by-leigh-brackett-one-of.html was for many years the favorite actor of America, indeed, he was talented, and some of his roles belong to movies that are now classic features, mostly westerns, Red River, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Rio Bravo   Nonetheless, as a man, I think I would have disliked The Duke – that was his nickname – because he seems to have been a sort of ancestor of the MAGA cult, and if you look tho...