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   Hi, Anton Shepelev! -> Alexander Koryagin   
   I read your message from 27.02.2021 00:19   
      
      
    AK>> For instance, I read now "The Gun Seller" by Hugh Laurie. A usual   
    AK>> not very bright subject, but the language is super, great,   
    AK>> marvellous and original.   
      
    AS> Not now, but I will.   
    AS> [after looking it up in Wikipedia] Whooops: I see it is very   
    AS> recent, and not a short story but a novel. Usually I do not read   
    AS> books by living authors to avoid any hype and let the cultural   
    AS> aftermath settle down. It is easier for me to start from a short   
    AS> story, as it does not require a serious commitment of time.   
    AS> Speaking of Hugh Laurie, I am more likely to try P.G. Wodehouse's   
    AS> stories about the immortal Jeeves & Wooster.   
      
   It is not a very recent book, but is still up to date. The matter is that the   
   modern literature is about this world, not about the world that is dead for   
   long times, and almost all events there are old fashioned and covered with   
   dust.   
      
    AK>> Somebody in heaven and under earth like serials very much. All   
    AK>> life on Earth is a big serial. Besides, there are some serials in   
    AK>> Russia which are very pretty, stylish and certainly are worth to   
    AK>> be seen once. For instance, the serial about a cool, stylish   
    AK>> Russian fashion firm and quite ugly, but very clever girl who went   
    AK>> to work there. Speed it up by 1.5 times and you will have a good   
    AK>> hearing training, without boredom.   
      
    AS> I am sorry, but any modern Russian TV series means boredom to me:   
    AS> no acting, no sound, no cinematography, no varation. They give me   
    AS> neither spiritual nor aesthetical gratification.   
      
   Perhaps I would look funny ;-), but try to find in the Internet and watch a   
   couple series of "Ne rodis krasivoi". It is a fresh and stylish approach to   
   this genre. And indeed it had a deserved, great success in Russia about 10   
   year ago.   
      
    AS>  I feel deeply   
    AS> ashamed for the state of the film industry in my country. One need   
    AS> only watch the excellent "The Lark" (1965) and its horrible modern   
    AS> remake commercially named "T-34" (2019) to realise the depth of   
    AS> degeneration. Only low-budget or no-budget indie movies sometimes   
    AS> manage to come out any good, but they very rare.   
      
   IMHO you should avoid serials with propaganda.   
      
   Alexander Koryagin   
   english_tutor 2021   
      
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