So, it’s the year 2012, it’s 2300h on a workday and me and my friend Georgie are drinking whisky with just a little bit of coffee and moloko, just so that we can call it Irish coffee and not sound like the complete winos that we are. We’re talking about movies because if was, after all, film fest ti...
4.5 stars My oh my, what a difference time and format can make. I remember the first time I read this book. It was probably 2005, maybe 2006, and I was working in the "Consumer Relations" department at my customer service job. Basically, I was the helpdesk, tech support, and the person you talk to w...
Wherein we learn all 21 chapters and not just the 20 from the movie and the early American edition of the book. After reading this I really can't understand why it was left out as it really is the summation of the book and it's theme. Man is not man without choice and self will. Man also can outgrow...
The American Review:At times, I find beauty in dissonance. Take, for example, my eclectic music collection. I have my share of soothing music: new age, quiet electronica, and so forth. I have some popular mainstream music, mostly from the '80s. Some funk, some reggae, ska, a bit of trance and techno...
Once you get the hang of 'Nadsat' (a fractured adolescent slang comprising Slavic (especially Russian), English, and Cockney rhyming slang) the novel moves very well. My copy contains the final chapter (chapter seven in part three). This chapter was left out during the American publication run. A...
Cuando un hombre no puede elegir, deja de ser hombre. Basicamente el libro me llevó a pensar en la cuestión de la maldad y bondad en el hombre, la elección moral. ¿Existen de forma excluyente o coexisten en una eterna lucha por surgir la una sobre la otra? Dios, el diablo o el Estado no pueden decid...
3.5 Stars out of 4.Very messed up and yet interestingly written. Mixing English with Russian to create Nadsat slang that Alex and the other teens speak -- Burgess is certainly creative. I can see it in the text and words used and said. Very messed up though. Saw the movie, certainly something lol....
Dieses Buch hat mich tief bewegt. Es spielt in einer Zukunft, in der kleine Banden die Strassen kontrollieren. Alex ist Kopf einer solchen Bande und dem Leser werden seine Taten in rascher Abfolge vor Augen geführt, die sich vom Zusammenschlagen wehrloser Opfer über Einbrüche, Vergewaltigung (auch v...
This is a book that I both liked and disliked. The version I read had the 21st chapter that Burgess mentions in the Introduction was left out in the American version, and while I can understand why that was done (to leave an overall good but darker tone to the entire book), it's almost a relief to r...
I was interested to discover that Anthony Burgess was also a linguist. The Latin, Russian and rhyming slang mixture used to create the Nadsat register was great. Bad things happen, but when you read about them from such a playful narrator and in such a fun dialect, it takes the edge off. It's so sur...
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