/lit/ - Literature

In this game, OP drops subtle visual hints at what he's reading, and the /lit/ community has to guess.

>>1362374
Ulysses?

No, I am serious. I understand maybe every other word.

>>1362383
Oh! I think I know it! Finnegans Wake!

sup mah droooogs

spoiler: its not about an orange made out of clockwork

>>1362369
A classic best-seller. A terrifying vision of the future.

To give a serious answer to OP's problem, I think Burgess lays on the new words thick at the beginning. But you can figure it out by context, and if that's not working, Urban Dictionary it or something. I liked it, so I'd recommend sticking with it.

>>1362424
WHAT?!

Then try Ridley Walker

>>1362383
Really? You can understand pretty much all of it from context. Besides, some editions come with a glossary or something.

Why does he use so much Russian?

>>1362468

Because Burgess is a communist.

Judging by the thumbnail, Ceiling Cat: The Novel?

>>1362369
Looks like a book to me.

You'd best be reading an edition with the final chapter.

>>1362369
It's Nadsat. It's used throughout the whole book. It's a mix of Russian and cockney slang.
Don't worry, you get used to it. By the end of the book, you'll be fluent in Nadsat.

Human conditioning, the book

>>1362772
Do you know what inspired him to combine Russian with cockney?

Brave New World?

>>1362790
Brave New World?
Now that I think of it, why are Britons so obsessed with conditioning?

>>1362383
Really? See, I'm reading Clockwork Orange at the moment without the aid of a glossary, and I'm not really having any trouble understanding it. I find verbalising a lot of the words does help with what he's getting at. Most of the time it's just using common sense to figure out what one made up verb means; and in the context of the rest of the sentence, I don't find it all that difficult.

Y'all stupid. I didn't even have to stop and figure it out, I picked the language up super quick.

>>1362793
At his stationing in Gibraltar, which he later wrote about in A Vision of Battlements, he worked as a training college lecturer in speech and drama, teaching alongside Ann McGlinn in German, French and Spanish. McGlinn's communist ideology would have a major influence on his later novel A Clockwork Orange.
Source: Wiki

Teenagers in those days were usually cockney and the Russian comes from communism, which was one of McGlinn's ideologies.

>>1362836
He was a communist? Fuck that, I am done reading this poorly written piece of propaganda.

>>1362846
He wasn't, just read about his time in the military.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Burgess

Until I actually read the book, I always thought a "clockwork orange" referred to a set of gears that happened to be painted orange, instead of an orange fruit with mechanical inner-workings (I thought orange was an adjective instead of a noun).

>>1362871
Burgess wrote that the title was a metaphor for "...an organic entity, full of juice and sweetness and agreeable odour, being turned into an automaton."

Is it odd that I find the whole concept of the Ludovico Technique to be strangely appealing as a form of rehabilitation? I know the implications of fascist mind control should turn me away from it, but I had a hard time feeling sorry for Alex.

>>1362713
The "final" chapter almost ruined the book for me. I'd rather the book not come full circle if it's going to do so in such a cliche manner.

>>1362871
I think the origin is from cockney rhyming slang. Can't remember what it means though, and too lazy to look in wikipedia.
"Queer as a clockwork orange" is the original saying - meaning weird.

Anyone else get a boner when he was raping the ten year old girls?

>my face when I said he was a communist just to troll, but then /lit/ backs it up with evidence.