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Prompt 25: A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't
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The first thing that hits out at you is the slang dialect that makes up most of this book. I was put off at the beginning by this nadsat slang, but a few pages later I pretty much got the hang of it. I didn't like the idea of using a guide, as it was a lot more fun to make sense of the slang through context. It wasn't bezoomny, on the contrary quite horrorshow!
A Clockwork Orange is about Alex, the protagonist and our Humble Narrator, and his love for violence and classical music. Dressed in the ...more
A Clockwork Orange is about Alex, the protagonist and our Humble Narrator, and his love for violence and classical music. Dressed in the ...more
Mar 19, 2008
Nikki
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it was amazing
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As an erstwhile student of Russian, what I remember best about this book is the inventive Russian-influenced language Burgess used to tell the story.
Sep 15, 2009
Lucy
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it was amazing
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