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  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...

  Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte is one of The Best Books of All Time as complied by the most significant writers for The Bokklubben, it is also one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, and it is also ranked 15 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site…notwithstanding all that, it is not one of my favorites, and the recent adaptation for the big screen written and directed by Emerald Fennell does not help at all – you find thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned lists, plus notes on films from The New York times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube page, in case you are interested   7 out of 10   Wuthering Heights https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/12/wuthering-heights-by-emily-bronte.html is a compelling, classic chef d’oeuvre, a newer site, for The Greatest Books of All Time, which uses smart algorithms, presumably looking ...

The Testament of Ann Lee by Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold, directed by the latter is based on the book Testimonies of the Life, Character, Revelations and Doctrines of Mother Ann Lee, and the Elders With Her: Through Whom the Word of Eternal Life Was ... Living Witnesses, in Union With the Church by Rufus Bishop and a few other works mentioned at the end of the motion picture which I have enjoyed, and thus here is my take – you have another few thousand notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists, plus more thousands of reviews on books from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html   8 out of 10   The Testament of Ann Lee is an impressive achievement, Amanda Seyfried as Ann Lee is one of the main achievements here, I have seen her recently in The Housemaid https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-housemaid-by-freida-mcfadden-has.htm...