*Extremely Recommended* A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange

I won't normally be discussing literature connected to Russian, although I just remembered how utterly brilliant this book is, in general, and for learning Russian.

Most of you will be familiar with the Stanley Kubrick movie.

But this movie is based on a book by Anthony Burgess. If you've seen the movie you'll know it's about a couple of 'youths' in a sort of dystopian future. Anyway, Alex and his 'droogs' as they're called in the book (you might recognize this, the Russian word Друг means friend), use a slang that is very closely based on Russian, I think Burgess spent some time in Russia or studied it or something but yeah.

There is a whole list of words that I learned from this without even knowing that it was Russian, the way the book is written you just sort of figure out what they all mean as you go along. Let me give you a few more examples:

Gulliver - голова - head

Bolshy - болшой - big

Horrorshow - хорошо - good

Okno - окно - window

There must have been hundreds. Anyway, I urgently recommend you all read it, it's an excellent book... and has

a lot (click for list)

of Russian words in it that you will learn without even realizing it (when I first read it I wasn't learning Russian, completely oblivious). Also, it's not even 200 pages so you'll be done with it in no time.

I can not recommend this enough, really :)