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Title: A solitary disclaimer
Review: I have read quite a few of the reviews on 'Amazon' and everyone of them praises the book highly. They talk about the inventiveness and energy of the language, the sympathy they have for the major character Alex, especially when his Nature is forcibly changed, and he loses the ability to be himself , including the ability to enjoy Beethoven's music. They speak about the skill in depicting the main character's alienation, and the dreary world of an imagined future technical dystopia.They speak about a vision Burgess presents, and the fact that in spite of the language containing many at first non- understandable slang terms, that the work is nonetheless really understandable.I didn't like the book. I read quite a bit of it. I just could not get into it. I do not like violence even fictional violence. I simply could not find any of this entertaining or amusing, however I know the great gifts Burgess has as writer.I may be wrong, but I simply do not like this one.
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