The Known World by Edward P. Jones is a thrilling, marvelous novel, it must be high up on The Greatest Books of All Time site, and on other pages, as far as I can remember, it won The Pulitzer Prize, but I cannot check, I have no access to the internet, even if I do not live in Iran, where they have had a blackout, and it is much worse: a tyranny where they killed thousands of protesters this time, and they have been murdering them for many years – but, let me get back to The Known World, and say that for the second reading I was not so elated, maybe I will get into the details further down…however, I have a few thousand reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All time and other lists, together with other thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other pages on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html

 

The Known World by Edward P. Jones is a thrilling, marvelous novel, it must be high up on The Greatest Books of All Time site, and on other pages, as far as I can remember, it won The Pulitzer Prize, but I cannot check, I have no access to the internet, even if I do not live in Iran, where they have had a blackout, and it is much worse: a tyranny where they killed thousands of protesters this time, and they have been murdering them for many years – but, let me get back to The Known World, and say that for the second reading I was not so elated, maybe I will get into the details further down…however, I have a few thousand reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All time and other lists, together with other thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other pages on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html

 

 

8 out of 10

 

When I have first read The Known World, I was thrilled

 

Under normal circumstances, I would insert the link to my previous review, only there is not internet connection now

I am driving blind here.

 

I have tried to take it up a second time, over the past few days, but I could not enjoy it, and there might be some reasons why

Which means you may have to abandon this page – it even makes me laugh a little, for who takes the trouble to read such things, I know I do not: I keep putting likes on Goodreads, but to ‘reviews’ I am sure I would reject:

 

First of all, they are for books that are terrible, you know that from the title, they offer cheap thrills, sex, perhaps perversions, and I just apply the Reciprocity rule from the classic Influence https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/influence-psychology-of-persuasion.html by stupendous Robert Cialdini

That’s right, the net is back

 

Since I have access, let me put here the path to my previous take on The Known World, which I called ‘a mirific chef d’oeuvre’ https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-known-world-by-edward-p-jones.html

What I found shocking, along with the brutality, tortures, killings, abuses, rapes, the list is so long, it is clearly one of the reason I do not feel like enjoying this right now, plus they have this Orange Idiot in charge, a racist, surrounded by morons in his own image, vile men and women, I have had that Porte parole woman in the background

 

Beautiful, but what a terrible person!

They are changing the history: “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past" https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/10/down-and-out-in-paris-and-london-by.html just like the magnificent George Orwell said, MAGA is busy building an empire, they may take Greenland soon

For this malignant orange tumor and his troops, it is all about white people, men in particular, so the suffering depicted in The Known World and in other places is not relevant, they want to delete this and put in only the ‘greatest leader of all time’, as they keep boasting, and enjoy the massacre of Native Americans and everything else

 

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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