Book # 56 & Sci-Fi Book # 19- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Well droogs I've just reread A Clockwork Orange, a work that I read a long time ago as a molodoy nadsat. As a malchick I messel it was quite horrorshow, the only difficulty being able to understand the nadsat slang, but now with this polezny Internet veshch I can look up a glossary of slovos in a minoota and just breeze through it real skorry. And I'm glad to say as a starry veck it is even better and makes one think about free will. Though it is hard not to continually think of the sinny while reading it. My only shilarny about the whole veshch is wanting to know if the 21st chapter was intended to be included by Burgess or not. Apparently he kind of went back and forth on it, but maybe that's not a baddiwad veshch. As a nadsat I thought it dobby without but now I've probably changed by mind. It is like choose your own ending! How oomny! A.

Sci-Fi Book # 16- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Maybe after reading Ulysses and The Hunt for Red October I enjoyed A Wrinkle in Time a bit more than I should since it is a nice and easy kids book. I'm not sure how it was never really on my radar growing up. If there's any criticism it is that a lot of the stuff that goes on in the plot seems a bit arbitrary and lacking in details... but hey I guess that's explained away as this being a children's book. I liked all of the characters... the kids seemed well characterized and the three Mrs. Ws were a lot of fun and I was left wanting some more of their back story. Let's go A-.

Mystery Book # 84 - The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy

Way back in high school I gave Tom Clancy a try. Reading The Hunt for Red October  now just reinforces what I thought back then... His plots are decent but there are just too many details about stuff I don't need to know. I feel like I learned something about how submarines work and the inner workings of our military but really I have no clue if any of it is actually accurate. Still I enjoyed it for the most part, B+.