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Summary: great book man
Review: -there are birth control pills in this book -they are mentioned at least twice o well this book is at least as good as A Clockwork Orange
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Summary: Put down that Danielle Steel novel and read some Burgess!
Review: As usual, Anthony Burgess succeeds in creating a completely believable, yet overwhelmingly unsettling other world that the reader could even see him or herself living in. I heartily recommend this book - Burgess's command of the English language in such a tight grip that he easily runs cynical circles around his audience, leaving him or her wondering how they ever arrived so smoothly at such a grotesque conclusion.
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Summary: Apocalyptic--Excellent
Review: For those who have read "A Clockwork Orange," "The Wanting Seed" is a great second Burgess book to read to get you into an awesome author. The story is also set in the future, where overpopulation is a prevalent problem and unstable governments are in control. With deft wit and careful plot planning, Burgess acts out a political theory through the course of the story--that a supremely liberal government falls to anarchy, then to extreme conservativism as a natural cycle. The metaphor is seamless, and so is Burgess's always clever writing. The characters are led through a parade of adultery, seclusion, cannibalism and unnecessary war in a study of human propagatory nature and the forces that move social institutions. Yes, in the end, Burgess's characters turn out to be more means to the end of his overarching ideas, but the ideas are so fruitful and the plot is so engrossing that it works very well as a whole. Recommended for fans of 1984, Vonnegut, and other Burgess works.
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Summary: The wittiest book I have ever read!
Review: How does Anthony Burgess do it? Whenever I read one of his novels I am amazed. This was a dark comedy of constant action. You find yourself rolling on the floor laughing. You then must ask yourself what you are laughing at? Babies being turned to fuel. Towards the end you choke on your laughter and truly feel what Tristram feels.Great!
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Summary: optimism for the future eh........ how bout not.
Review: I first read this book when I was 14. I was doomed to dread the future from the start. In the back of my mind these words hold true more often than not. In my eyes this is one of his finest works.
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Summary: wow
Review: i found this book by pure chance on a library shelf, not knowing a thing about the author at all. i decided to read it. i'm a big fan of "brave new world," "the handmaid's tale," and "1984" and could see similarities between this book and all of those. though a bit dated, i thoroughly enjoyed the work for the provocative stabs at historiography, the really delightful writing style, which, rife with unusual syntax, allusions, tremendous vocabulary, and many plays on words, never ceased to amaze, and the general ideas contained within.
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Summary: wow
Review: i found this book by pure chance on a library shelf, not knowing a thing about the author at all. i decided to read it. i'm a big fan of "brave new world," "the handmaid's tale," and "1984" and could see similarities between this book and all of those. though a bit dated, i thoroughly enjoyed the work for the provocative stabs at historiography, the really delightful writing style, which, rife with unusual syntax, allusions, tremendous vocabulary, and many plays on words, never ceased to amaze, and the general ideas contained within.
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Summary: Outstanding!!!!
Review: I had the pleasure of reading A Clockwork Orange back to back with Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. I highly recommend doing the same. Both authors presented an intersting view of the future. Burgess saw the future with issues of overpopulation and forced homosexualtity while Huxley saw the future with controlled population and government sponsored fornication.
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Summary: wonderful
Review: I'm a junior in high school, and I was told to choose one author and to do an indepth project on him/her. I was required to read
a number of the author's books, research his/her life,etc. I had read A Clockwork Orange, and loved it. I wanted an author who would be completely different from others who chose authors such as Hawethorne. Well I am more than satisfied with my choice. Burgess is an amazing author, who's books are funny but at the same time eerily realistic. The Wanting Seed is a classic Burgess novel, and I recommend it as well as his others. I have not yet read a novel by Burgess that I didn't enjoy.
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Summary: BullFrog Lesbians...!
Review: Imagine living in a world where homosexuality is encouraged to decrease population. Imagine being a hetrosexual in that world. Now imagine fighting to overcome the prejudices against you.
Now ...imagine what would need to happen to decrease the ever-expanding human race. Great book for "earth future thinkers".
One of my all time favorites.
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