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  The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton The story is based on an actual event, the Great Gold Robbery which took place on 15 May 1855, only this note will not be much (if at all) concerned with that, let me first advertise my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html Edward Pierce versus Orange Woland     8 out of 10   Edward Pierce, was a member of London's high society, but also secretly he was a master thief. ‘He plans to steal a monthly shipment of gold from the London to Folkestone train which is meant as payment for British troops fighting in the Crimean War.’   This was acclaimed as a classic adventure, and I found it entertaining alright, not overwhelming though, what is interesting to me is the parallel with the Confidence Man https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/confidence-man-making-of-donald-trump.html who is at the top of high society Edward Pierce used his position to g...

  DE DAUMIER-SMITH'S BLUE PERIOD by JD Salinger, author of the magnum opus Catcher in The Rye, which is Fifth on The Greatest Books of All Time site, and it also part of other prestigious lists, TIME 100, Modern Library’s Best 100, hundreds of works from those places are reviewed on my blog, which I would be lying if I said you need to check, nevertheless, there it is https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html     8 out of 10   De Daumier – Smith’s Blue Period is one of the Nine Stories, which is 474 th on The Greatest Books of All time site, where Catcher in The Rye is as high as the fifth place https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/catcher-in-rye-by-jd-salinger-is-number.html it is an absolute chef d’oeuvre   I remembered for some strange reason the passage where Holden Caulfield has that outré experience in the hotel, where Maurice, the pimp, pushes the hero to pay for the services of this young w...