Literature

If you are going to read «Fallen Angel», «The Hobbit» or «The Master and Margarita», read Kuprin's «The Star of Solomon» first.

Before reading Fowles' «The Magus (Magus)», read Shakespeare's «The Tempest».

Author	Title	*Rating	Commen- taries
Leonty Rakovsky	Kutuzov	7	Just right for children interes- ted in history.
Leonty Rakovsky	Suvorov, Ushakov	7
D. Telegina	Stuffy Bandits, Egyptian Darkness
V. Kunin	Kysya, Russians on Marienplatz
F. Neznansky	The Werewolf
J. Lucas	Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi	8
A. Dumas	The Three Musketeers		BUY THE BOOK

Author	Title	*Rating	Commen- taries
«The Three Musketeers» is the greatest adventure novel, the most famous book of the brilliant French novelist Alexandre Dumas. The story of the daring adventures of the Gascon d'Artagnan, filmed countless times, despite its almost two-hundred-year age, lives on, contrary to the laws of time and oblivion, with its former unfading force. BUY THE BOOK
M. Reid	Lost in the Ocean
W. Scott	Ivanhoe
L. Fleischer	Rain Man
T. Zahn	Dark Force Rising, The Last Command
K. Anderson	In Search of the Force, Dark Apprentice, Champions of the Force
K.K. Rush	The Trap
A. Dumas	Twenty Years After		BUY THE BOOK
The brilliant novel by Alexandre Dumas "Twenty Years After" about honor and pride, about courage and love, about faithful blades and faithful hearts, was written after the novel "The Three Musketeers" and is its direct continuation. It has as much wit, entertainment and unexpected twists as the first book. The adventures of the brave musketeers — d'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis — continue amid the formidable historical events that scattered the devoted friends on opposite sides of the barricades… BUY THE BOOK

Author	Title	*Rating	Commen- taries
V. Kaverin	Two Captains
J. Verne	The Children of Captain Grant
S. King	Igniting Ignit- ing with a glance
T. Livy	Carthage against Rome
W. Shakespeare	Othello
I. Ilf, E. Petrov	The Golden Calf	9
R. Heinlein	Double Star, Starship Troopers
W. Shakespeare	Hamlet
L. Boussenard	Hell of Ice, Captain Cut-Throat, The Hero of Malakoff
Guy de Maupassant	short stories
M. Bulgakov	The Master and Margarita	10
V. Golovachev	The Shadow of Lucifer's Wing	5
W. Shakespeare	Romeo and Juliet
A. Dumas	The Count of Monte Cristo
J. H. Chase	Believe This and You'll Believe Anything
S. King	Carrie	6
J. R. R. Tolkien***	The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers	10
	The Return of the King	10	BUY THE BOOK

Author	Title	*Rating	Commen taries
John Steinbeck	Of Mice and Men
	The Pearl
R. Kipling	The Jungle Book
Ray Bradbury	Ice and Fire
Richard Matheson	I Am Legend	10	BUY THE BOOK
From the school literature course it is known that drama is a conflict between people, while tragedy is a conflict of a person with society. The novella «I Am Legend» by Richard Matheson is a model tragedy, in which the reader watches how the protagonist, from a keeper of the last fragments of civilization, overnight becomes its opponent. BUY THE BOOK Original review by Andrei Olegovich
George Martin	A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords	10
	A Feast for Crows
	A Dance with Dragons
Walter Schellenberg	The Labyrinth
Boris Yeltsin	Confession on a Given Theme

Author	Title	*Rating	Commen- taries
Leonid Gabyshev	Odlyan, or the Air of Freedom
Danil Koretsky	Antikiller, Antikiller 2
Orson Scott Card	Ender's Game
Gillian Flynn	Gone Girl	10	BUY THE BOOK
A stunning psychological thriller that is worth reading, perhaps even not so much for those who like untangling convoluted plots, but to a greater extent for those who want to look at the defense of basic family values from the point of view of murderously pragmatic perfectionism. This novel expanded my ideas about reality and ranks second in the list of the scariest books I have read after the novel "The Magus" by J. R. Fowles Original review by Andrei Olegovich BUY THE BOOK
Nikolai Kononov	God Without a Machine
John Robert Fowles	The French Lieutenant's Woman
John Robert Fowles	The Magus	10	BUY THE BOOK

Author	Title	*Rating	Commen- taries
A novel that penetrates the reader's consciousness down to the most secret desires and half-forgotten fears, Fowles' novel leads him along a seemingly endless circle of lies, self-deception and even greater lies. The protagonist's attempts to find the illusion of understanding others only leave him alone with his own self, which is ever harder and harder to consider attractive. Each new step of the twentieth-century Orpheus leads him further and further from Eurydice, and only slightly lifts the veil over the cruel game that the seemingly omnipotent planter Conchis conducts with him with a firm hand. And even when the cards seem to have been revealed, and the chimera conjured by the magician has melted away, there is no real answer to a single question. The hero only steps onto a new circle, where he will be tormented by the same vices, and only the magic of the Greek island will remain in the past and will no longer serve as the screen behind which conscience dozes in a pleasant twilight. The sunny scenery gives way to the gray everyday life of London, which leaves no right to a new mistake. P.S. This book is best read without knowing where the end will be. That is, not as a separate paper book and not as a separate file. The ending should be a surprise. P.P.S. I did not put a single comma in the postscript, because I have my own Russian language with an olympiad and nymphs. Original review by Andrei Olegovich
John Robert Fowles	The Collector	10
John Robert Fowles	A Maggot	7
William Shakespeare	The Tempest	8
Maurice Druon	The Iron King, The Strangled Queen, The Poisoned Crown, The Royal Succession
	The She-Wolf of France, The Lily and the Lion
	When the King Loses France
Cormac McCarthy	No Country for Old Men	10	BUY THE BOOK
Cormac McCarthy	The Road	8	BUY THE BOOK
After the catastrophe, the Father and the Son walk through the scorched lands, crossing the continent. Throughout the book run deep questions that wound to the very heart. Is there any point in living if there is no future? There is none at all. Is there any point in living for the sake of children? This is a novel about the fact that everything in life is relative, that such concepts as good and evil cease to work and lose meaning under certain conditions. This is a novel about what is truly important in life, and about how to appreciate it. And it is also a novel about death, about the fact that everything ends someday, and therefore one must accept every day as it is. One just has to… live. BUY THE BOOK
John Robert Fowles	The Ebony Tower
Gillian Flynn	Dark Places / Dark Secrets (Dark Places)	9	BUY THE BOOK
Twenty-four years have passed since a monstrous crime shocked all of Kansas: in a small town a fifteen-year-old teenager brutally killed his own family. Back then only seven-year-old Libby miraculously survived, but the tragedy that occurred left an indelible mark on her later life... The young man is serving a life sentence, but he never confessed to what he did. Libby, who once became the main witness for the prosecution, after so many years finally decides to meet her brother. It is frightening to return to the past, especially since sinister secrets hide behind its veil… The novel «Dark Places», following David Fincher's «Gone Girl» which literally blew up the box office, finally got a film adaptation. On September 10, 2015, the film «Dark Places» was released on Russian screens with the brilliant Charlize Theron, winner of the «Oscar» and «Golden Globe» awards, in the lead role; her partners in the film were young, but rapidly gaining popularity actors Nicholas Hoult («Mad Max: Fury Road», «X-Men: Days of Future Past») and Sterling Jerins («World War Z», «The Conjuring»). The film was directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner («Her Name Is Sarah», «Pay the Ghost»).
Gillian Flynn	Sharp Objects	8	BUY THE BOOK
Camille Parker, a not particularly successful reporter for one of Chicago's not particularly successful newspapers, dreams of a brilliant career. And now the girl gets a lucky chance capable of sharply raising her journalistic status, - Camille is sent as a correspondent to a small town where several young girls have fallen victim to a maniac. Her task is to give readers a sensational report from the scene. The thing is that Camille was born and grew up in this town, and therefore who, if not her, can more easily than others find a common language with the residents and find out the nuances of the investigation. But immersion in the terrible reality of provincial life turns into a chain of nightmares worthy of the brush of Hieronymus Bosch… Very soon a TV series of the same name comes out on world screens, in which the main role was played by Amy Adams («Enchanted», «Arrival», «Nocturnal Animals»)!