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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't get it. I have no idea what happened or why. Is the protagonist crazy? Is it the world that's crazy? Was it all a dream? Someday in the not too distant future, I will pick this book up off my shelf and realize I have absolutely no memory of it whatsoever. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was really enjoyable and entertaining, but not as substantial as the other Burgess work I have read; A Clockwork Orange.  Takes place over a few nights while a straight-laced linguistics professor breaks out of a hospital before having brain surgery to search for his unfaithful wife, not becaus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4776557">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another quirky, absurd, existentialist novel.  When the story is coherent, it is an enjoyable read, aided by Burgess' knack for dry wit.  Too often, however, I found the story muddled by comedic surrealism that neither engaged the reader nor offered any profound insight into the mind of the main cha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25661999">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite books of all time. Burgess is a master of language and wit, and the dialogue in this book is wonderful. The story is great and filled with humor as the hero delves deeper and deeper into a society of which he knows nothing and fits into not at all.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a very funny book. You will enjoy it in a bit different way if you know that A. Burgess was diagnosed with a brain tumor that time, and went through all the most unpleasant brain checks himself. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this in the heels of A Clockwork Orange - one of my favorite books.  I was disappointed.  Perhaps under a different situation I would have enjoyed it more.]]></body>
    
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