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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