Re: A. Burgess
Emily Friedman (bananafish_9@yahoo.com)
Sat, 28 Nov 1998 15:25:18 -0800 (PST)
---J J R <jrovira@juno.com> wrote:
>
> I just wanted to glow a bit. I'm reading my second Anthony Burgess
> novel--Earthly Powers (my first was Inside Mr. Enderby)--and I have to
> say I love his writing. His sentences can be exquisitely crafted, and
> he's one of the few novelists I've read that force me to keep a
> dictionary handy. He's probably best known for A Clockwork Orange,
but I
> haven't read it yet, so.... :)
>
> Jim
>
A read a Clockwork Orange. It was great. When I began reading it I was
very confused because I did not understand the language, but when I
was finishing it I understood Burgess's slang very clearly. It was
very interesting. Also what is interesting is that one of my friends
is Russian and she could understand the slang because the words were
similar or the same as Russian words. I did not know that Burgess had
written other books. I guess I will have to check them out sometime.
-Liz Friedman
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