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Is this book hard to understand the writing???
Bill Golden If you speak some Russian, it helps. Most of the slang is borrowed from Russian roots (there's a lot of "bolshy," from the Russian большой, and "malen…moreIf you speak some Russian, it helps. Most of the slang is borrowed from Russian roots (there's a lot of "bolshy," from the Russian большой, and "malenky," from маленький).(less)
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A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
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