Ataraxia

  Lady Susan by Jane Austen -while Pride and Prejudice is ranked 13 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, Lady Susan does not seem to make it in the first ten thousand – however, you find reviews on hundreds of books from that site on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html       9 out of 10 in the form of Love and Friendship, the movie adaptation   “I did teach Mansfield Park at Swansea, and very scathing about it I was. I had concluded that Jane Austen was a 2 nd -rate pisser while still at school.” This is what Magister Ludi Kingsley Amis had to say about Jane Austen   Nevertheless, Pride and Prejudice https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/12/pride-and-prejudice-by-jane-austen-12.html is 13th on one formidable list, using a powerful, new algorithm, and part of The 100 Best Books of All Time as compiled by the Norwegian Book Clubs, we can conclude this is a magnum opus Even t...

  The Republic by Plato Absolute, miraculous masterpiece This is one of the best known works, even if not many of us read it anymore. It is so comprehensive, miraculous and overwhelming that I do not know where to begin and what the point is to attack such a monument of philosophy. Perhaps one place would be the absurd and outrageous ideas that are embedded with so much worthwhile Love of Wisdom. -            Woman and children would be “in common” in this society that Plato proposes, where men would father more children, especially if they are valiant and have proved their worth in battle -            The system would be rigged in favor of the “worthy” ones who would be the ones encouraged to have as many children as possible -            The “lesser „citizens would lose in this scheme, for they would not transmit good genes- albeit ...

  Anything Else written and directed by Woody Allen hundreds of films form The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other prestigious compilations are reviewed on my blog, where you can find notes of many of the best books of all time https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html     6 out of 10   Annie Hall is one of the best movies ever made https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/annie-hall-screenplay-by-woody-allen.html but Anything Else is nowhere near, indeed, Anything else would tempt one to joke:   -           Give me Anything Else, but this   Woody Allen was once celebrated as one of the greatest film makers, an auteur in fact, although the mesmerizing William Goldman explains in his fabulous work the fallacy of believing in that once popular concept In Adventures in The Screen Trade   https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/0...