Title: A Clockwork Orange
Author: Anthony Burgess
Published: 1962
Language: English
Pages: 141
Rating: 3/5
""What we were after was lashings of ultraviolence." In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost?"
I was really excited to read this because the title of this book always drawn to me. When I entered it as bookclub choice and it got picked I couldn't wait to pick it up. Unfortunately I didn't enjoy (or understand?) it as much as I had hoped.
We follow Alex in this story, and his friend and the first thing I notice when starting this story is the words that are used. Alex and his friends have their own slang which even after reading almost halve the book, I still didn't understand. I felt like an adult nowadays, trying to understand what their children are talking about but not understanding a crap.
This really, really made the book very unpleasant for me to read. I actually finished the book understanding maybe 60 percent of it. I went and looked for a summary on the internet to fully understand this. From the summary I really liked the story of it, but for me it was not executed the right way so I can't give this more than 3 stars.
I would recommend this to lovers of classics, who like to puzzle with language.
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Tuesday, 20 December 2016
Friday, 7 October 2016
COLLECT | MODERN LIBRARY CLASSICS: SHAKESPEARE
In the near future I want to read at least one Shakespeare, and I stumbled across these editions today and fell absolutely in love with them. I decided that I want to collect these once I start to read Shakespeare. These are the Modern Library Classic editions.
Much Ado About Nothing
Love's Labour's Lost
Richard III
Julius Caesar
The Comedy of Errors
Coriolanus
Macbeth
Titus Andronicus & Timon of Athens
The Tempest
Saturday, 16 July 2016
BOOK REVIEW | BRAVE NEW WORLD BY ALDOUS HUXLEY
Title: Brave New World
Author: Aldous Huxley
Published: 1931
Language: English
Pages: 229
Rating: 3/5
"Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress..."
I was really excited to read this, especially since a acquaintance recommended it to me. He was really praising it, talking about how it set him to think about our ideologies etcetera. The book started of and it really grabbed me but as it went on it let me go. The story got a little bit boring in my personal opinion, it was really slow-paced.
I also had a bit of a problem with Huxley's writing style. At one point in the book I was really enjoying it, he mentioned some beautiful quotes like: “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”. But at other points I was just confused because of the way he switched from one character to another.
My rating is definitely based on how much I enjoyed reading this book. Than again, now I think about it. Was this book designed to be a enjoyable? This book made me feel annoyed, disgusted and made me really think about 'a perfect world/society'. Is it possible for a world where everybody is happy and living for each other to be wrong?
Author: Aldous Huxley
Published: 1931
Language: English
Pages: 229
Rating: 3/5
"Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress..."
I was really excited to read this, especially since a acquaintance recommended it to me. He was really praising it, talking about how it set him to think about our ideologies etcetera. The book started of and it really grabbed me but as it went on it let me go. The story got a little bit boring in my personal opinion, it was really slow-paced.
I also had a bit of a problem with Huxley's writing style. At one point in the book I was really enjoying it, he mentioned some beautiful quotes like: “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”. But at other points I was just confused because of the way he switched from one character to another.
My rating is definitely based on how much I enjoyed reading this book. Than again, now I think about it. Was this book designed to be a enjoyable? This book made me feel annoyed, disgusted and made me really think about 'a perfect world/society'. Is it possible for a world where everybody is happy and living for each other to be wrong?
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