Cynthia bond books5/27/2023 ![]() The first part was difficult to read, partly for the made-up language Burgess creates (which wore on me) and constant, gratuitous violence. It’s about a young man literally addicted to violence, the leader of a pack which wreaks nightly havoc on an English town. ![]() Not a fan of random violence and rape, I wrote this off as not for me. ![]() I’ve been putting off reading this one since the upset wrought by the first few minutes of the Kubrick film. ![]() Books Read March 2018: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (for library classics book group) On this April 1, it’s the coldest it’s been in years, hovering around freezing. I was too ill, no desire to leave the warmth of my home and comfort of my sofa. I’d hoped to take a short vacation in March. This year, March threw in a nasty virus, gratis, getting me three days off work in which I was too sick even to read. It’s also my birth month, meaning I have an excuse to binge buy books. ![]() The TV reverted to its usual function: background noise for napping and covering the surface of my TV stand, while looking impressively large. And there were no Olympics, no television distracting me. Lie: I had no such faith, but told myself things could hardly go further south. I had faith March wouldn’t let me down, unlike my crappy January and February. ![]()
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