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[Alexandr Korol]

impressions, and that’s what leads to me writing books, you see, getting things done. Same with music, with a live concert, or translating a song. You read it and suddenly — boom — it inspires you so much that you start writing new chapters. Same with people. A person lives with their own kind of angle, their own perspective — it doesn’t mean they’re bad. But what experience shows is this: when you step out of your comfort zone and look at your life from a different angle, it brings clarity, awareness. And of course, my book — it’s always surprised many people. Actually, my whole way of presenting information — because I always look at situations in a non-standard way. The situations themselves may be the same, human situations, but I look at them from a different angle — from my own. I have a different angle, a different perspective on things, and I share that perspective — actually, not just one, but many different ones. In different books, there are different angles, all in the frame of this perception. But again, a person’s life is in their own hands. Because if I now put myself in the place of a reader and read “Alternative History,” the first volume, maybe I’ll look at my life from a different angle — but when I stop reading the book, I’ll return to my old angle. Then, if I return again to the first volume of “Alternative History” and start reading, the angle will change again. And if I like that angle, then when I find myself in it, I need to anchor myself there, bring order, adjust everything according to this new perspective — what I like, what I don’t like. It’s like your mood changes from reading the book. But again, it’s just an angle — mood, too, can be different for everyone after reading. It turns out that a person steps away from their point, where they live, where they are, and shifts, as if to the side, into just a different angle, the one embedded in my book. And from this angle, they look at their life and go: “Ahhhh!” And someone might be amazed, someone surprised, someone scared, someone dissatisfied. Why? Because they looked at themselves from the outside. Again, if someone looked from the outside, felt dissatisfied with something, and changed it — then yes, not only did their angle shift because of my book, but they can also change their life. They might reconsider their values, their outlook, and quit alcohol or cigarettes, decide to go to university. Even though, as you can see, there are no such suggestions or calls to action in my books. So why would they suddenly want to quit something or return to something — or the opposite? Because... it’s like a film, right? You watch a movie, and in that movie there’s an emphasis: it’s all about fathers,