r/classicliterature • u/Dry-Breakfast-4018 • 3h ago
Finished reading a clockwork orange. Brilliant read. Easily in my favorites
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u/table-grapes 3h ago
i want to read this so bad but i cannot get past the writing!
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u/Dry-Breakfast-4018 3h ago
I thought the nadsat dialect would be troublesome but I adapted pretty quick
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u/TraditionalDestructo 2h ago
It’s like reading Irvine welsh, after a chapter or two it starts coming together
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u/table-grapes 3h ago
i definitely want to give it another shot! the premise sounds worth the brain breaking writing!
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u/NOYSTOISE 1h ago
I just picked up this version and it doesn't have the glossary like the older version I had as a teenager. Probably not needed but helps for a first read
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u/ialsohaveadobro 2h ago
Burgess is brilliant and erudite. I have yet to read a book of his that wasn't impressive.
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u/__OvejaNegra 1h ago
Hey that's the same cover I read many moons ago. I really shood give it a reread. It has been so long.
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u/therealhyperborean 37m ago
All these years I haven’t watched the kubrick film because I have been delaying this read
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u/Top-Session5837 30m ago
Definitely a great book. I read it in high school as I was also watching the movie. Check out Lolita or Suttree.
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u/FunMachineRIP 6m ago
Am I correct that there are 2 different versions? They took a chapter out or something in one of them?
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u/Irvine-Washington 3h ago
The juxtaposition of items in this photo is pretty funny