Mika Waltari - 'The Dark Angel' or the Greatest Book I've Ever Read

Note: the writer pseudonym, Anna Notaras, is taken from this most remarkable book, a bestseller in its time. Mika Waltari is probably Finland's best known author and a true god of historical novels. No matter on which of those books you get your hands on, the richness of details, the precision and the incredibly vivid historical pictures will recommend such writing as top notch. Having read the dramatic novel Mikael Karvajalka, I immediately declared...

Cumberbatch & Sherlock: On The Bright Side of Pop Culture

Having loathed pop culture because of its shallowness, stereotypes, infectious nature, appeal to simple minds and loads of other aspects and being more attracted to underground phenomena and thinking that all things popular are only about Hollywood 'values' and naked blondes, I deemed it all as noxious. Pop culture is for the dumb, I said. Generalisation, however, often proves to be the worst crime. The smart side of society seems to have its say,...