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Williwaw by Gore Vidal 10 out of 10

  Williwaw by Gore Vidal 10 out of 10 The exhilarating Williwaw is one of the masterpieces that make staying at home such a peripatetic, glorious experience, given the chance to travel the wide world in the company of exuberant characters, in intense, stormy, exotic surroundings, created by the brilliant minds of angelic creators…a few days ago, this reader had the chance to fly over to Africa in the company of 007, as imagined by William Boyd (somewhat unexpectedly not by his original Maker, Ian Fleming) in the intriguing Solo http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/08/solo-by-william-boyd-10-out-of-10.html In Williwaw, the story takes us to the Aleutian Islands, where the wondrous Gore Vidal has been stationed and thus has had the chance to get inspiration for this wonderful Magnum opus, written when he was only 19 (!), an aspect that made the under signed think of two ways to take this incredible detail, one being the jealousy, chagrin that one is not able to write anything close to th...
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Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment by David Mercer was nominated for two Oscars in 1967, including for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Vanessa Redgrave, it is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, albeit it does not make it on my Top 10,000, if I ever make one, I did not like it…you have thousands of notes on films from The NYT 1,000 and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where my macaws are better than most features I see these days

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  Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment by David Mercer was nominated for two Oscars in 1967, including for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Vanessa Redgrave, it is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, albeit it does not make it on my Top 10,000, if I ever make one, I did not like it…you have thousands of notes on films from The NYT 1,000 and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where my macaws are better than most features I see these days   6 out of 10   Vanessa Redgrave https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/05/foxcatcher-screenplay-by-max-frye-and.html has a leading role in Morgan A suitable Case for Treatment, she was nominated for an Oscar for her performance, as well as for other awards, and if she did act radiantly in quite a few features, this film failed to impress me   This is a subjective note, and furthermore, you have all that is re...
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The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor is ranked only 17120th on the Greatest Books of All Time, and I see three possibilities here: 1. Nobody should bother with my notes, because this is one of my Top 200, or 500 at the very least 2. That GOAT algorithm is nonsense 3. The answer is given by Aristotle’s golden mean, which ‘is the ethical principle that virtue lies at the balanced midpoint between two extremes: excess and deficiency’, in other words, this should be placed at 500, and I am obviously jesting here…you find thousands of reviews on magnum opera from The GOAT site, even the bottom of the list apparently, on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel

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  The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor is ranked only 17120 th on the Greatest Books of All Time, and I see three possibilities here: 1. Nobody should bother with my notes, because this is one of my Top 200, or 500 at the very least 2. That GOAT algorithm is nonsense 3.   The answer is given by Aristotle’s golden mean, which ‘is the ethical principle that virtue lies at the balanced midpoint between two extremes: excess and deficiency’, in other words, this should be placed at 500, and I am obviously jesting here…you find thousands of reviews on magnum opera from The GOAT site, even the bottom of the list apparently, on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel   10 out of 10   I had been enchanted by three novels by Willaim Trevor https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/mesmerized-by-reading-turgenev-by.html already, before coming to The Children of Dynmouth with some mixed feelings: on...
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De la Cezar la Churchill by Francois Bluche you find more than five thousand reviews on my blogs, the one I use now is at https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... and for the time being, I am present on Goodreads as Realini Ionescu – myself actually, unless I am already in that joke where this fella asks ‘do you know who I am, and the answer is no, but we can ask one of the nurses or something’ – if you read this on my web domains, Goodreads exiled me for some time, perhaps because I am so anti- Orange Jesus

  De la Cezar la Churchill by Francois Bluche you find more than five thousand reviews on my blogs, the one I use now is at https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... and for the time being, I am present on Goodreads as Realini Ionescu – myself actually, unless I am already in that joke where this fella asks ‘do you know who I am, and the answer is no, but we can ask one of the nurses or something’ – if you read this on my web domains, Goodreads exiled me for some time, perhaps because I am so anti- Orange Jesus 9 out of 10 This is a capital book. Its use is self-evident, albeit in the age of the internet, you can always search for one quote or another, and then you find the answer, which can be false, misleading, or both, besides, it is one thing to search for one piece… - And another to have all these pages of bons mots In the background, as I write this note, I have The Rest of Politics, a podcast I tend to listen to lately, with Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart, and the topic ...
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Ride the High Country by Sam Peckinpah is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and this time I agree with them, there have been a few accidents in the past few weeks, when some features seemed unworthy – nevertheless, you find thousands of notes on films from the NYT 1,000 and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html

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  Ride the High Country by Sam Peckinpah is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and this time I agree with them, there have been a few accidents in the past few weeks, when some features seemed unworthy – nevertheless, you find thousands of notes on films from the NYT 1,000 and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html     8 out of 10   Sam Peckinpah https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-ballad-of-cable-hogue.html was a magnificent director, The Ballad of Cable Hogue is excellent, but I think The Wild Bunch is the best-known masterpiece, I must say I had not heard of Ride The High Country, but it is about as good as Red River, or other classics   Joel McCrea is impressive as Steve Judd, one of the two, or maybe we can talk of three or four leading characters, and I must have seen him elsewhere, but he was relatively unfamiliar, just like the rest of the cast, w...
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The Bright Forever by Lee Martin

  The Bright Forever by Lee Martin A horrifying and yet extraordinary novel. The Bright Forever is not bright at all, on the contrary, it is rather gloomy, but for all that it is an excellent work. I have read it almost without a stop, very interested to know “who dunnit” and what on the earth was the meaning of it. The meaning of such horrifying acts is to be found in the childhood and the inherited genes of the authors of such crimes. Then there is the common guilt which is also explained at one stage in the book, when the questions like -            What if , pop up I believe in intervention and try and do that, sometimes on a limited scale and at other times with what looks like exaggeration. There are a few examples at the pool where I go- the Radisson- and I will mention this crazy guy who keeps making the most extravagant assertions- that the EU is funding him to prevent a community from having more children and other outrage...
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A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler

  A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler I am not sure if I liked this better than Breathing Lessons, but I am inclined in favor of the latter, by the same excellent author After reading this good book, I thought about The Buddenbrooks and Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann. A Spool of Blue Thread is the story of a family, much like The Buddenbrooks and less like Joseph and His Brothers. The Whitshank family is at the center of the novel, with its (at times too) many relatives, orphans and ancestors. From the start I must say that I lost about a third of the story, when the plot moves on to Junior Whitshank. Abby might be in the eye of the storm, as the woman who seems to control her husband, Red to an important degree. She is the mother of three children and has adopted (in a strange, convoluted and secret way) a fourth, who is nicknamed Stem. The most intriguing and often obnoxious is Denny, albeit I must confess that I liked at least some of his attitudes. For instance, there ...
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