by Anthony Burgess
[These notes were made in 1985:]. The first half of this volume is an interesting, occasionally incisive, albeit somewhat fragmented analysis of Orwell's 1984. It also serves, of course, as an indirect introduction of Burgess's own bleak novel, which forms the second half of the book. Burgess, whos...
I think I'm the only one who's ever read this, but I loved Burgess' effort and his essay on 1984. I found it on the new books shelf at the UNCG library, where, geek that I am, I was hanging out with my boyfriend in high school. We'd just go and sit and read, or look up old Rolling Stones on microf...