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  Note on The Comedy Clockwise with John Cleese | realini

  Three Trapped Tigers by Guillermo Cabrera Infante is on the 650 th spot on The Greatest Books of All Time site, which is the reason why I have tried to enjoy it: alas, it does not work for me and that should be about all I have to say about it, only there is more in the lines below – you find thousands of notes on books from The GOAT and other relevant sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html   6 out of 10   Kingsley Amis https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-kings-english-guide-to-modern-usage.html said : ‘First you want to get hold of something to say, then you fudge up a plot of a story of some kind, and then you put in bits of things you have seen and heard round the place, and then you try and make it all sound sort of interesting or witty or funny or unusual or striking in some way. If you find some bit that isn't that, you work at it until it is, or at least as near it as you can get.’ And I lo...

  The Front Runner by Matt Bai is not one of the best motion pictures you could see, it is not one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, nevertheless, the story is relevant and this cinephile has enjoyed it – for notes on films from The NYT 1,000 and other sites you could check my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html   8 out of 10   I have written a review on The Front Runner https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-front-runner-based-on-book-by-matt.html but it was on some channel recently, and although it is not spectacular, it is still worth watching, especially given the contrast between what happened in 1988 and then in 2016 and then in   -           2024   The American electorate brought on top of the world an Orange Joker – he is still there as we speak – recently, even after he showed between 2016 and 2020 what he can do, what with...

  78 out of 100 for Matilda | realini

  I Like It Here by Kingsley Amis – The Magister Ludi is one of my favorite authors, I have read and enjoyed I Like It Here for the second time now – you have reviews on more than twenty books by this fantastic writer and thousands on works 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   10 out of 10   I am reading the magnum opera of Kingsley Amis https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-kings-english-guide-to-modern-usage.html again, this time I try to use some method, while the first time there was no plan, order, now I am trying to approach the novels chronologically, in the order of their publishing   Garnet Bowen is the hero of this novel and I identify with him to a large extend, first of all, I also Like It Here – he prefers England, just like I have not left my town in what, maybe fifteen years, and even then, that was a two day trip, otherwise it i...

  The Opposing Shore is ranked 594 th on The Greatest Books of All Time and that is why I have tried to approach it, without success: it does not make it on my GOAT list, not if we stop at the ten thousand mark – nevertheless, you find reviews on books from the aforementioned list on my blog, thousands of them https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and notes on films as well   6 out of 10   This was not for me, albeit, if I were to take the time, find some resilience, patience somewhere, who knows, it may have worked (wonders?) as it is, Seneca https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/06/on-shortness-of-life-by-seneca.html said that ‘life is not short, if we manage time in the proper way, and not waste it’   It was not like that, but you can google for the exact quote, the gist of it being in this particular situation that maybe The Opposing Shore is fantastic for you, it was for many critics, ergo the exact position ...