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  The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald is number two on Modern Library’s Best 100 Novels, it is one of The All TIME 100 Novels, also part of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, it is third on The Greatest Books of All Time site, summing up, you find this chef d’oeuvre not just on any important list, but at the top of it – you find thousands of reviews on magnum opera from the aforementioned and other compilations on my blog   https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html   10 out of 10   We could say that this is the Best Accessible Novel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/05/great-gatsby-by-scott-f-fitzgerald.html seeing that it is at number one or two on most important sites, and then the ‘competitors’ are difficult to read, think of Ulysses, one masterpiece that I started a few times, but may be never able to finish   Last night, they had on a film channel the adaptation of the chef d’oeuvre, th...

  The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker A sensational, overwhelming classic Steven Pinker is one of those authors who have become classics while they are still alive and I think he is still rather young. To my surprise, I found his name in a masterpiece on history- War, What Is It Good For- and then in interviews with The Economist, where he was also mentioned last week by a reader who wrote to the newspaper. The Blank Slate is outstanding for various reasons, one of which is that it has an extraordinary range of quotes, themes and issues taken from Dostoyevsky, George Orwell- 1984, Mark Twain – Huckleberry Finn and much more. The author has a brave stance in many problems and is right when he argues that we have become so mild and like in a trance on so many issues, we tolerate outrageous behavior in the name of acceptance of cultural diversity. People shy away even from condemning Nazism or mutilation- in a poignant and repelling example the authors refers to the practice of holding a...