Ataraxia

  One Fat Englishman by Kingsley Amis, winner of the Booker Prize, author of Stanley and The Women and more than ten other masterpieces  http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/02/stanley-and-women-by-kingsley-amis-10.html    10 out of 10     We find some astonishing things from the introduction to One Fat Englishman, signed by David Lodge – who is himself a magnificent writer, he has signed three magnum opera, one of the Campus Trilogy being  http://realini.blogspot.com/2021/04/changing-places-and-golden-rule.html  Changing Places - that shed light on the life of Kingsley Amis and the reflection it has had on the book, which anticipates some of the decline that the divine writer would experience in the later part of his life, when he has many shortcomings to share with the hero/anti-hero, the Fat Englishman from the title, Roger Micheldene…   Kingsley Amis would get very fat – his son, who is miracle onto himself, author of at least three chefs d’o...

  The Agent by Ivan Turgenev is one of the stories in The Sportsman’s Notebook, ranked 873 rd on The Greatest Books of All Time site – a few hundred of those books are reviewed on my blog, where the best gig is https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html your feedback is welcome   9 out of 10   At the beginning of this narrative, I thought there is a character that seems a lot like me ‘He has a positive distaste for doubtful society—he is afraid of compromising himself; in his lighter moments, however, he will avow himself a follower of Epicurus…’ and there is more there, to identify with, only there is a paradigm shift   ‘Distaste of doubtful society’ sends me to a story told by our majestic luminary, the brightest mind around, and one of the greatest in the world, Andrei Plesu https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2023/11/despre-bucurie-in-est-si-vest-aka-about.html who was blacklisted... Back in the communist ...

  American Hustle Screenplay by Eric Warren Singer, nominated in 2014 for Ten Academy Awards, including for Best Writing, Original Screenplay – other such great works are reviewed on my blog, where the best beano is https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html   This note will most likely veer towards The Orange American Hustler, who has recently changed hue, towards cacaniu aka merde, and keeps hustling the world   9 out of 10       American Hustle is indeed a remarkable, most often enjoying film, and if we sometimes tend to think ‘come on, this is not the way it happens’, then we must remember that, as we communicate, as in you may read this (and drop it), and I put some lines in here, the Biggest Orange American Hustle in History is taking place   Before I concentrate on that – Orange American Hustler – maybe I say a few things about the movie, which has a fabulous cast, with Christian Bale ...