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“Just not to EACH OTHER!”

LOL, that’s true!

This reminds me of my younger brother’s quest to see “A Clockwork Orange”, which I think he finally convinced my father to take him to.

I had the soundtrack album which was great. And the book was also great, a wonderful reading experience. There’s a glossary for the crazy slang the hooligans speak and at the beginning you are looking up every word, but by the end you can tell the meaning of new slang words just from the context.


138 posted on 02/03/2014 4:03:25 PM PST by jocon307
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One that I still can't decide if it's worth learning the language for is Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban. He wrote a lot of children's books, but this one is a post-apocalyptic dystopia.

Sort of a funhouse-mirror reflection of "A Canticle for Leibovitz".

The entire BOOK is written in the sort of English that might have developed (or devolved) a couple hundred years after a devastating nuclear war.

Good book, but it was a lot of work.

142 posted on 02/03/2014 4:09:29 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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LOL...when I gave that answer to Mom, she realized i was “old enough” to watch Dr. Zhivago.

It has been one of my favorite movies for YEARS. (like...a half CENTURY! hahaha)


144 posted on 02/03/2014 4:11:33 PM PST by left that other site
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