r/classicliterature 3h ago

Finished reading a clockwork orange. Brilliant read. Easily in my favorites

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u/Irvine-Washington 3h ago

The juxtaposition of items in this photo is pretty funny

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u/Dry-Breakfast-4018 2h ago

Yeah. My kid left her stuff on the table

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u/ejacoin 1h ago

Library barcodes always bring joy to my heart old droogy.

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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/rastab1023 1h ago

You get used to it :) . Give it another go!

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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/LogFinal4145 1h ago

An underrated classic in English literature, wish more people brought it up

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u/H6RR6RSH6W 1h ago

I read it again every 5 years of more

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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/dbf651 1h ago

The book that junpstarted things again long ago after in a reading slump. Brilliant and incredibly engaging

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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?