Okay so I'm totally slacking on trying to get through "Hollow City." Don't let my slow pace reflect on the story. It's very interesting and well written I've just been unmotivated. So since it's been about a month since I've posted something and I'm buying books for people for Christmas, I thought I'd start a series where I talk about books that I consider classics. Now, said book may or may not ACTUALLY be a classic but in Kelsey's world it is. Basically this'll be a series of posts where I talk about my favorite books.
FIRST UP: "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess. Originally I read this book because I wanted to watch the movie (I'm one of those wierdos that must read the book before they see the movie OR ELSE). I'm a huge fan of scary movies and I had it in my head that this movie was a scary movie (it's not). It is actually a dystopian novella that centers around a troublemaker, Alex, and his friends. They go around terrorizing the people in their city and love doing it (this is putting it mildly they do some pretty fucked up shit). Eventually they get caught and Alex gets sent to a correctional facility where he goes through various forms of "therapy" to avert him from doing bad things.
Now first things first this story is so so so so interesting but also a little (a lot) disturbing. The narrator is a sociopath who you watch do awful things and kind of hate but by the end you end up feeling sympathy for this seemingly unredeemable character (at least I did). It's a little unsettling. This novel is also a little hard to get through not only because of the story but the way it's written. The author came up with completely new slang words for his gang of hooligans to use. It was a little confusing when I tried to look up all these words he was using that I didn't know and none of them were in the dictionary. Luckily the internet provided translations for me.
BUT it's totally worth it and if you're looking for a disturbing read, this is your book. Good luck man
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