Ataraxia

  The River Wild by Denis O’Neill is entertaining, adventure is the key word, perhaps, but I am still thrilled by The Blue Wave, the victory of the good side in the elections that took place the other day in America, kudos     <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhODnZhRkjjKbJaqofBhInS1vPtdbQ7TSG1OuYCE4tJ6LAQv7kr-kefoHr1fGZibMv8had3Q1JbsVRrY42HH8yU-EUg1RD2D5jQ6ac83ygZ5RJfuFch_xBn0b4Jz5oDykieeEIQp2RejM8L0tlPBRtrXD7MWlX6KzRS0LLTU6myolWwovTL5bi07UdW1z1r/s1600/image.jpeg" /> 8 out of 10   The River Wild reminded me of Deliverance https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/deliverance-by-james-dickey-is-one-of.html because both take place on and near a Wild River, crazy men are involved in both, and there is violence, although this is where the villains resort to different tactics, and the results look similar, but just form a distance   The most important trait of River Wild is that a woman dominates, she wins...

Links with ordeal of native American ordeal Son Little big     Magnificent build up Bigger and his family living in poverty may get a break, but the job offer becomes a curse The parents are alright, they want to help given five million, a billion today to the casue of the Negroes, as they called them then Nevertheless, being white is the reason for the tragedy, and misfortune I would say, the young, blonde, is she, woman has this boyfriend who is a communist, they show compassion, perhaps too fortright, pressing their mateness on him They drink too much, Mary gets intoxicated, she asked him to lie to ther father about her resence at this communist beano He helps her to her bedroom, then it gets erotic and they would have sex, which would is called rape today, since she was inebriated The blind mother comes to the room, asking about her daughter, and desperate to avoid exposure, Bigger puts a pillow on her head, and then accidetanlly kills her Disposing of th...

  Days Without End by Sebastian Barry was ranked 74th on The Guardian's list of the 100 best books of the 21st century, BBC News listed Days Without End on its list of the 100 most influential novels, although it is only 5230 th on the Greatest Books of All time site, and even worse, I could not find it engaging enough to go all the way with it     <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIEoFP4pPqV2TBCAuvHuE9Wjtb_OkyYih7m14ZhOA5tvUHHr3vz4Bz2x8XDeaLG886QN-foIDkDUF3gAQ2cI934xMvNzBCdUSuJhHlXegYK6WLcTQofWplyb30ZBNXSzxNs8rrdi3crVbSDWHs87OtXXHId3v7K60z76wdzeNIJqEeapSuxM3n_OBWM5g4" />   7 out of 10   I have enjoyed A Long Long Way https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-long-long-way-by-sebastian-barry-is.html by Sebastian Barry, and Days Without End started not just promising, it looked like a Joy ride, but then, for various reasons, mostly, or completely mea culpa, the interest waned, until it nearly disappeared ...

  this young woman at a table in what was it Mexico and the fifty years old with bun inviting her to his table, where he eats some raw fish marinated in lime juice and it comes with a condom, also has some aphrodisiac or sex name for the dish Young woman tells abaout her scuba and after 20 minutes, she comes out of water in a storm, only the boat, person who is supposed to help is not there, and we have a metaphor here, about abaondemnet, except the older guy is not into it She eats from his dish, but he is the major player in his story, selfish man…we have a quote from Orson Welles link Orson here About happy end, it all depends when you decide to end the story Also Oscar Wilde of the one should always be in love, that is why one should never marry’, and so many other quotes fame – something about the ego, all the others are taken, so be concerned with your own, or what was it? Then we see that the narrator sees her own story in this Estrangment     M...

  The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck is ranked 274 th on The Greatest Books of All Time, it was the best-selling novel in the United States in both 1931 and 1932, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932, and was influential in Buck's winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938, though I did not find it on The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, or any of the other important lists     <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg07xtKX7lHAExP_Jd9tUAmuUv1T9tEZPDun9Y8s04P1h_ymcabHURlHiBTAk4tX3h5apfBNaGBB5fXWYDg1l1PMbDwe-sxOmKgHu7jqonTYqMbLN3sn8v4IK9tYpTOhoU9QskQOdfmHmuOO__7VxE7VMYk03zQZcPnKpMjQIKR7NN_lL3TbJuoZZsASVLO/w177-h316/image.jpeg" /> 9 out of 10   The Good Earth has reminded me of The Rickshaw Boy https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/rickshaw-boy-aka-camel-xiangzi-by-lao.html perhaps because the heroes of both novels have to work pulling the rickshaw, albeit in one, that is the defining trait, seen in the titl...

  Batman The Movie, based on the comics books 7.7 out of 10 It could be more fun to watch this adventure comedy from 1966, than the more recent super productions. Granted, this cinephile is not keen on any of the comics based productions, old or new. But there is a charm, a naïveté to this old crime story. When Batman and Robin run on the streets of the city, you can exult - or just find it ridiculous- at the special effects of the age. There was a time when they could not film protagonists in their cars, as they drove. Orson Welles was one of the best directors ever and the one who introduced some new techniques, from his Magnus opus, Citizen Kane, to A Touch of Evil. Batman The Movie does not bring much though, apart from the sense that this was  The Age of Innocence... In terms of special effects anyway.