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  Pressure by David Haig is not overwhelming, but I have enjoyed most of it – you have thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other web sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where my macaws are radiant   7 out of 10   Brandon Fraser https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/06/a-note-on-gods-and-monsters.html is a very good actor, and his handling of the role of General Dwight Ike Eisenhower is excellent, although Jack Nicholson, or Geroge Constatin would have added panache, irony, and much more to this emblematic persona   Pressure describes events taking place during World War II, just before (and for some scenes during and after) D Day, the celebrated, magnificent landing of the Allied troops in France, a crucial operation for the fate of the war, which was depicted in some other fantastic motion pictures, such as The Longest Day, wh...

  The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov are included on The Bokklubben World Library’s Best 100 Books of All Time list, and they are ranked 127th on The Greatest Books of All Time site…you have thousands of reviews on magnum opera from the aforementioned 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 the stars   10 out of 10   Magister Ludi Kingsley Amis https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/06/one-fat-englishman-by-kingsley-amis-is.html wrote this about ‘The Checkoff formula: you take a lot of characters, all miserable because of something they won't do, and let them talk without influencing each other for three acts, and at the last moment…   you introduce some arbitrary calamity, or some proposed change like a return to Petrograd or a holiday in the Cry-mere, which you know won't make any difference to any of them, and then you go on for ten minutes or ...

  Citations by Francois Bluche is an easy, entertaining book – you find thousands of notes on 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 and YouTube channel, where my macaws are the main attraction   10 out of 10   I have already written https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/06/de-la-cezar-la-churchill-by-francois.html about this, and I forgot, nevertheless, the conclusion is the same: this is a great read, and that should be the end of the ‘review’, except I will keep mumbling here, and you have been warned, spoiler alert!   I am thinking to include here the joke about Mitza and her visitors: these two ladies who could be my age visit Mitza, and the host offers some coffee, then again, after some ten minutes, and again, because she says ‘what kind of a person am I? Not to make some coffee?’ when they are out, the other two ladies say: ...

  It was Serena who'd told Maggie that marriage was not a Rock Hudson-Doris Day movie. It was Serena who'd said that motherhood was much too hard and, when you got right down to it, perhaps not worth the effort. Now this: to have your husband die. It made Maggie nervous, although she knew it wasn't catching. There's times I think, Shoot, maybe I ought to just fire off another telegram. Jesse, I'd say, / love you still, and it begins to seem I always will. He wouldn't even have to answer; it's just something I want him to know. Or I'll be down in Baltimore at my sister's and I'll think, Why not drop by and visit him? Just walk in on him? Just see what happens?" "Oh, you ought to," Maggie said. "But he'd say, 'What are you doing here But Maggie remembered, and sometimes, feeling the glassy sheet of Ira's disapproval, she grew numbly, wearily certain that there was no such thing on this earth as real change. Y...

  About Ashenden by Somerset Maugham 10 out of 10     Somerset Maugham is one of the best two writers ever, the other one is Marcel Proust, and therefore reading Ashenden-  even in an abridged form this time, to be revisited later for the full enjoyment – was an absolute joy…we can find Of Human Bondage on The modern Library’s 100 Best Novels https://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/   Ashenden is a secret agent enlisted during World War I – and inspired by the experience of Somerset Maugham as an intelligence officer – and based in Switzerland, although there would be at least one story that takes him as far as Russia, on the brink of the Bolshevik Revolution, when the agent will have an unlimited supply of money, but the impossible task of trying to do something about the unstoppable Apocalypse of the Bolshevik Revolution – a calamity that would propagate to our lands, albeit later – this is a catastrophe for which we still pay so much and wi...

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