Atlas Shrugged - Mr. Rearden - Francisco's voice sounded calm and serious. - Tell me, if you saw Atlas, giant holding the world on his shoulders, if you saw that on his tense chest there is blood flowing, knees bent, his hands trembling, the last effort trying to keep this world in the heavens, and the more his effort , the harder it pushes the world on his shoulders, what would you tell him to do? - I do not know. ... What can he do? And what have you to say him? - Shrugged. Fantastic book!!!! At first 200-300 pages it was booooring and uninteresting, I was thinking about to stop reading. But I was lucky that I was very busy to chose another book. So I read and read...And then suddenly, I discovered a gorgeous knowledge !!!

Hard to be a God Well... A few days ago I have finished reading the book "Hard to be a God" by Strugatsky brothers. So it was pretty interesting. But the end was too blurry and fast. :) Now I will try to tell you the main theme. So in the world there is a planet and on the planet lives the people like on the Earth, but on the Earth people are more highly developed. And they go to those another Earth. There are only 250 spys, who follow the course of history and helps people not to kill each other. That spys have their own theories, they studied a special course in psychology and other required sciences. The main character is the spy from the Earth. His name is Anton. But here, on another Earth, he lives in the country Arckanar, and his name is Rumata Estorsky. He is a noble Don. The silly fat king rules Arckanar. He does nothing. And all work for him Don Reba does. But he pursues a policy of terror: he kills everybody who can read and write books, treat people, paint and etc. And Rumata trys to help those people. He moves the to another countries. But one day Don Reba kills the king and become the leader of the Arckanar. But he is not only Don, he is the head of the sacred religious order. Riots start in the country. Rumata understands that it is one thing - to save people from the king and it's quite another thing - to save people from religion. Ah, by the way, I forgot! Rumata has a lover. Her name is Kira. She is silly cute girl. She loves him very much and he loves her too. So when the riots start, Rumata confer with other spys and they decided to say about the situation to the hadquarters. Rumata goes home. He lies with the Kira and talk. Then they hear that somebody wants to brake the door. They look in the window and see some monks, who want to enter the home and kill them. Rumata wants to take his swords from the floor, but suddenly two crossbow bolts pierce Kira. She is died. Rumata is upset. Rumata takes his swords and starts too kill every monk who he sees. It lasts while spy's plane sprays sleeping gas. Rumata and all the town sleep. Anton was brought to Earth and sent to a rehabilitation center. So that is all. I hope you enjoyed my retelling. :)

Thank you! I like writing here and I want to say "Thank you" to everybody who corrects me and comments my notes :) It is very intersting to read. I look forward to each comment But I have one small request. If you read my note leave the massage, please! like you it or not? how does it sound? may be it will be better to say about it in another way? Because in Rusaian there are so many various synonyms and various contexts that sometimes i cannot express my emotions in english. So I ask you to "сomplicate" my stories. If you understood my emotion in the note, may be you was in the same situation, so write please how would you write about it :)

The Reader So yesterday i have finished reading of another book. It was The Reader of Bernhard Schlink.I read a lot and my freinds said that it is wonderful book and wonderful film, so i was excited when i started to read. ... And already on 36th page the main character Hanna has sex with another character - 15 years old boy. Wow, i thought, good begining. And continued to read. But it turned out that this book is not about love, no. I have mixed feelings about it. When I finished it i did not know who is good and who is not. Tis book just pointed problems, but there were not any solutions. So, what were the problems? Hm the first and main, i think, how peoples, who were nazis, continued their life after war. As for me i think that it is crazy to judge a man who was a guard in a concentration camp 20 years ago because he did what he was told. I think that all of these people in the depths of the soul or openly felt guilty.We can only imagine how it was hard. And this court. It's a circus! Other problem i think about illiteracy. So it's not hard to understand. And the last it is the weakness of character. I cannot forgive that this boy even did not write to Hanna! So mixed feelings. I used to feel differently after reading the books. I read about Germany. Read Anne Frank's diary. But opinion quoted in the book is really interesting and unusual.

New Year in Volgograd So now it's 30th of December, New Year is coming, and i must have an festive mood... New Yearin Russia is like Christmass in Catholic countries... Presents, lights, garlands, Christmas trees... And two terroristic attacks. I'm so shocked!!! It's like to steal a holiday! The first attack has happened yesterday. A suicide bomber detonated a bomb in the building of the station. It's awful. There were a lot of people. Volgograd Railway Station - an architectural monument. I live in three bus stops from station. I can see the station's clocks from the window. I heart the detonation but I could not imagine what it was!!! The second attack was today in the morning peak hour. It was in trolleybus. It was full of people. and it was in few kilometres from my house... Today peoples in Volgograd are afraid. They walk on foot or ride by taxi. And me too. And what we can do for a New year? Sit at home. There were not be celebrations, centers are closed. And most importantly - dozens of dead and wounded. They did not return. But any of my friends could be there. And most importantly - it's helplessness and outrage. I understand that I can not change the situation, I can not protect anybody. Okay, one blast, but the second - it's awful. I have not words.

Project of settlement Hello. Now you know that i am fond of architecture. Today I want to share my project with you=) This is the project of settlement for 1,2 thousands of peoples. There are school, two kindergartens, polyclinic, administration center, motel, cinema and club. There are also big park and embankment=) There are 3 types of buildings: Individual houses, blocked houses and sectional buildings. There are many trees parks and gardens. This is park-town=)

Victory day. Hello friends!!! Today is fantastic day!!! Today is the day of Great Victory!!! Today fireworks will be all over Russia from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok. You know, that this day is important for every Russian, but for Volgograd people it has a special color. May be you know that Volgograd used to be named Stalingrad. So if you know this, you know the history of this epic city!!! Stalingrad fought 200 day and nights. Our soldiers fought for every inch of earth. Citizens were not evacuated from the city. We had an order: "No one step back!!!" Many heroes were born in this battle: Michail Panikaha, Matvei Putilov, Vasilii Zaytsev, and many, many other unnamed heroes!!! Every inch of Stalingrad earth was filled with blood. I just want to say them great "Thank you!" Thank you for the peace! Stalingrad battle became a critical point in whole Second World War. My grandparents fought for Stalingrad. Then they came to Berlin. And in May, 9th Red USSR flag flew over the Reichstag. I think that contribution of Russian people was great ( It need to say that by "Russians" I mean all nationalities of USSR, sorry for it...). And when I'm asked about lack of economic development in Russia, I resent! How could we develop when we saved Europe? We took a hit of two great wars!!! But I'm a little distracted... Today is the holiday!!! =) Happy Victory day!!! I wish you peacefully heaven!!! =)

Why not? I just wanted to write about Victory day, but it don't want to send my note!!!