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This book was real horrorshow, O my brothers. I suggest that all vecks should viddy it if they have a chance.
This is a real horrorshow of a book, right skorry and a melenky bit thought provoking, O brothers.
Set in a dystopian backdrop, we ride along through the youthful, turbulent years with our violence prone narrator, Alex. Society wants to rehabilitate this hooligan and hopefully many like him, but at what costs? A question of individual freedoms versus societal good comes to the forefront.
I had high hopes for this book, but was almost thrown off in the first several pages by the slang that satura ...more
Set in a dystopian backdrop, we ride along through the youthful, turbulent years with our violence prone narrator, Alex. Society wants to rehabilitate this hooligan and hopefully many like him, but at what costs? A question of individual freedoms versus societal good comes to the forefront.
I had high hopes for this book, but was almost thrown off in the first several pages by the slang that satura ...more
A newer edition, with the 'controversial' 21st chapter. Using the original US edition at this link:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
for the afterword and the nadsat glossary. But reading this newer, 1986 edition, because it includes a new intro by the author, explaining why the US publisher cut the last chapter at the original publication, and of course, for the included last, 21st chapter. The 21st chapter was in the British edition, and translated editions, but cut from the Amercan edit ...more
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
for the afterword and the nadsat glossary. But reading this newer, 1986 edition, because it includes a new intro by the author, explaining why the US publisher cut the last chapter at the original publication, and of course, for the included last, 21st chapter. The 21st chapter was in the British edition, and translated editions, but cut from the Amercan edit ...more
Using this one for the afterward, and the glossary, but reading this one:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
because it includes a 1986 intro by the author, and the last, 21st chapter that was not included in the American edition of the book, but was included in the British and translated versions of the book. ...more
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
because it includes a 1986 intro by the author, and the last, 21st chapter that was not included in the American edition of the book, but was included in the British and translated versions of the book. ...more
A bizarre fairy tale about adolescence and all the violent thoughts, feelings and actions related to it. The end wasn't that "horrorshow", but the book is entertaining and fun, and the slang is a bit hard at times, but you end up getting the hang of it.
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