The Friday 56 is a book meme that I discovered last week.
It is hosted by Freda’s Voice and the rules are as follows:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56.
*Find any sentence, (or few, just don’t spoil it) that grabs you.
*Post it.
*Add your (url) post below in Linky. Add the post url, not your blog url.
It’s that simple.
My choice for this week:
Then he clenched his stinking red rooker and let me have it right in the belly, which was unfair, and all the other millicents smecked their gullivers off at that, except the top one and he kept on with this weary like bored grin.
From A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.
I saw this movie, long ago…. weird stuff.
The movie was kind of incomplete as the director was working from the initial American version of the book that cut out the last chapter. The final chapter was restored to the American edition in 1986, but the movie came out before that (1971) and Stanley Kubrick was unaware of the omission. Needless to say, I much prefer the book.
Thanks for visiting and for hosting The Friday 56.
i’ve had this book on my TBR for ages and i don’t know why i don’t ever get to it. based on your snippet, i now wonder if i’ll understand half of what’s written – such odd, odd language – “rooker?” “millicents?” “smecked their gullivers off”
It’s actually not that difficult to understand once you get used to it. It’s ‘Nadsat’, which is a kind of Anglo-Russian slang used by some of the characters in the book. Give it a try and see how you get on. Thanks for dropping in.