Frankenstein by Mary Shelley has an astounding for me 41st place on The Greatest Books of All Time, which means that I should be more careful in the future with this site, it may reflect importance, value and more, but it does put at the bottom magnum opera that I venerate – the other day I have found a masterpiece by my absolute favorite Magister Ludi Kingsley Amis somewhere at ten thousand or worse – and here we have this horror feature that I do not see much to enthuse about, right at the top…however, you find more than five thousand reviews of books from this list and others, along with notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made compilation and others on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html if you care to visit Frankenstein vs Orange Woland

 

 

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley has an astounding for me 41st place on The Greatest Books of All Time, which means that I should be more careful in the future with this site, it may reflect importance, value and more, but it does put at the bottom magnum opera that I venerate – the other day I have found a masterpiece by my absolute favorite Magister Ludi Kingsley Amis somewhere at ten thousand or worse – and here we have this horror feature that I do not see much to enthuse about, right at the top…however, you find more than five thousand reviews of books from this list and others, along with notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made compilation and others on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html if you care to visit

Frankenstein vs Orange Woland

 

 

7 out of 10

 

Spoiler alert: whatever I had to say about Frankenstein is already up there, in the headline, not much, if anything, seeing that I do not find the characters attractive, it seems that they have warmed the same old soup too many times already, the latest is the much-vaunted Guillermo del Toro adaptation, which I tried to see, but then abandoned

 

Another ‘review’ of mine is here https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/frankenstein-or-modern-prometheus-by.html although I do not see how I could have had kinder words to say about this back then, it could be, but then what does it matter, as I say at the start of the old note, more than million had a view on Goodreads

Let us take a little step back here, and say that I am not that dumb (well, who knows, but in this matter, I mean) and I can understand that Frankenstein is not just about this monster, who comes and haunts this ship at the beginning, throwing men around, sad, angry really that his creator has made him and he is so unfortunate

 

It does have a complexity, subtlety – here we can see an issue, if I am not sophisticated enough, then how can I be expected to delve into these Fifty Shades of Grey https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/11/50-shades-of-grey-by-e-l-james-lame.html - but it is not for me

We could detect themes that are so important today, and in general such as the Demiurge, man who creates monsters, indeed, who is the vile creature, what about the suffering of the poor fellow, created by this doctor, and sent loose into the world, we could think of the destruction that is in the nature of humans

 

It is just that to follow all that nonsense really, if you ask me, about how this doctor Victor Frnakenstein packs this energy into corpses – again, yes, we have the unknown unknowns, to quote that defense secretary, what a bright mind when compared with this idiot Hegseth, and the whole pack of the Orange Woland team, but then still, to claim that he gets those body parts, glues them together and voila, the creature is absurd, even when considering the allegories involved – the details of the cadavers and all that…

I will now get to my leit motif and make the association with…Orange Woland, leader of the (former) free world, and the Ultimate Monster in my book, the parallel with Frankenstein is this: the electorate aka the MAGA part has played the role of Victor Frankenstein and what they have put together, what with their foolishness is…

 

This abominable monster is the real thing: the poor thing made up by Mary Shelley is adorable when placed next to this Orange Vader, who is responsible for a multitude of deaths, what with cutting AID, blowing up those boats near Venezuela

 

Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – I am on Goodreads as Realini Ionescu, at least for the moment, if I keep on expressing my views on Orange Woland aka TACO, it may be a short-lived presence

Also, maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the benefits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

 There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works

 

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

 

 

 

 

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