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  A History of The World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage is an outstanding work, which was to be expected, seeing as the author has been – I am not sure if he still is – one of the editors of The Economist…I think he was in charge for the latest issue of The World in 2026, every year, they publish what they except to happen in the next, and I think they did not foresee the war against Iran, and the cataclysmic consequences, to grasp the size of the catastrophe, you could do no better than read The Economist – you have thousands of reviews on books recommended by this distinguished publication, also from The Greatest Books of All Timea and other pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html   9 out of 10   This is a fabulous work, which takes a creative look at history – by the way, one of the mesmerizing, hilarious luminaries of America, H.L. Mencken, said that ‘historians are failed novelists’ https://realinibarzoi.blogs...

  Peaky Blinders by Steven Knight – this feature has had the premiere on Netflix a few days ago, and although I like Cillian Murphy and Barry Keoghan- Tim Roth was once glorious, especially in Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, but also in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern   Are Dead, only recently I have seen him in anything worthwhile, or up to his best standard – this thriller was not satisfying, its Metascore is poor – you find thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other sites, together with reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other lists on my blog   https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel   6 out of 10   If we compare this with The Godfather https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-godfather-ii-by-mario-puzo-this.html then, let me think, there is nothing more to say is one thing, and then the other…why would we compare ...

  A Buyer’s Market by Anthony Powell 10 out of 10 This is the second novel in the twelve-novel series A Dance to the Music of Time. It reminds me of A La Recherche du Temps Perdu. It is magnificent, elaborate and very often hilarious. Like in a Psychology test, to put down feelings, words, adjectives associated with the exquisite experience of reading this book: majestic, British, superb, splendid, wonderful…nec plus ultra, but then there are another 10 volumes and I expect them to be at least as majestic as the first two. In fact, I love the British, not the ones we met drinking their brains out, but the gentlemen of the Victorian period, the ones from this novel, or from the stories of Somerset Maugham. Sometimes I wish I had lived in The Great British Empire, in the XIXth century, even if I haven’t quite made up my mind if in rainy Britain or in the Indies, or perhaps some other colonies. I laughed with tears at the beginning of A Buyer’s Market, when sugar is poured on Windmerp...

Fawlty Towers by John Cleese is the best comedy series of all time, if you ask me, it is one of the best according to others – you find thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other sites, plus multitudes of reviews on books from The Greatest Books of All Time and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel   10 out of 10   I think this is miraculous, indeed, as I write this, I realize I have to have a look again https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/11/fawlty-towers-by-john-cleese-one-of.html albeit you may not even heard of it, if you are young, and then more importantly, if you are extant, as in anybody reading this   Phenomenal John Cleese has the leading role of Basil Fawlty, an obnoxious, if hilarious hotel owner, manager, waiter, and jack of all trades in his business, he has created this spectacular show with his then wife, Connie ...

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  The Order: Inside America's Racist Underground by Kevin Flynn, Gary Gerhardt has been adapted for the big screen, the result is very good, and this note is about the film, ergo there is a spoiler alert there already – I think this is very relevant in the world today, with the rise of MAGA and versions of it around the world – even here we have Simion, a sort of little Orange Twat, replica of the man who promised no wars and low prices, only to attack Iran and cause a meltdown – you have thousands of notes on films form The NYT 1,000 and other lists, plus a multitude of reviews of magnum opera from The GOAT and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel   7 out of 10   This narrative looks at the fundamentalists who are ready to use weapons, explosives to battle for their fanaticism – by the way, there is this definition ‘a fanatic will not change his mind and will not stop’ – they are ra...