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good thing I read this after studying pholosphy. can be hard to read at times, but funny if you can trudge through the strange parts.
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The Doctor is Sick
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Dr. Edwin Spindrift, a very ordinary lecturer in linguistics, has been sent home from Burma with a brain tumor. Closer to words than people, his sense of reality is further altered by his condition. The night before he is to be operated on, Spindrift decides―shaven-headed, shirtless, and penniless―to postpone the surgery by escaping from the hospital. Things and people he hardly knew existed outside of his dictionaries swoop down on him as he careens through adventures in nighttime London.
"Fine, sly, rich comedy." ― New York Times Book Review
"Fine, sly, rich comedy." ― New York Times Book Review
260 pages, Paperback
First published January 1,1960
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260 pages, Paperback
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August 17, 1997 by W.W. Norton Company
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9780393316025
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0393316025
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English
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Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
Seriocomic novels of noted British writer and critic Anthony Burgess, pen name of John Burgess Wilson, include the futuristic classic A Clockwork Orange (1962).
He composed also a librettos, poems, plays, screens, and essays and traveled, broadcast, translated, linguist and educationalist. He lived for long periods in southeastern Asia, the United States of America, and Europe along Mediterranean Sea as well as England. His fiction embraces the Malayan trilogy ( The Long Day Wanes) on the dying days of empire in the east. The Enderby quartet concerns a poet and his muse. Nothing like the Sun re-creates love life of William Shakespeare. He explores the nature of evil with Earthly Powers, a panoramic saga of the 20th century. He published studies of James Joyce, Ernest Miller Hemingway, Shakespeare, and David Herbert Lawrence. He produced the treatises Language Made Plain and A Mouthful of Air. His journalism proliferated in several languages. He translated and adapted Cyrano de Bergerac, Oedipus the King, and Carmen for the stage. He scripted Jesus of Nazareth and Moses the Lawgiver for the screen. He invented the prehistoric language, spoken in Quest for Fire. He composed the Sinfoni Melayu, the Symphony (No. 3) in C, and the opera Blooms of Dublin.
Seriocomic novels of noted British writer and critic Anthony Burgess, pen name of John Burgess Wilson, include the futuristic classic A Clockwork Orange (1962).
He composed also a librettos, poems, plays, screens, and essays and traveled, broadcast, translated, linguist and educationalist. He lived for long periods in southeastern Asia, the United States of America, and Europe along Mediterranean Sea as well as England. His fiction embraces the Malayan trilogy ( The Long Day Wanes) on the dying days of empire in the east. The Enderby quartet concerns a poet and his muse. Nothing like the Sun re-creates love life of William Shakespeare. He explores the nature of evil with Earthly Powers, a panoramic saga of the 20th century. He published studies of James Joyce, Ernest Miller Hemingway, Shakespeare, and David Herbert Lawrence. He produced the treatises Language Made Plain and A Mouthful of Air. His journalism proliferated in several languages. He translated and adapted Cyrano de Bergerac, Oedipus the King, and Carmen for the stage. He scripted Jesus of Nazareth and Moses the Lawgiver for the screen. He invented the prehistoric language, spoken in Quest for Fire. He composed the Sinfoni Melayu, the Symphony (No. 3) in C, and the opera Blooms of Dublin.
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I believe that there are certain writers that deserve to be read by all irrespective of their language, their genre, their content, or their book length. Anthony Burgess, for me, is one such author.
The Doctor is Sick wasn't great but neither was it bad or boring. It was decent.
The Doctor is Sick wasn't great but neither was it bad or boring. It was decent.
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Probably one of his best. Didn't he claim it was?
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I can hardly wait until I get to fifty books on my shelf and then I'm going to upload the artwork to this edition. It will be a real treat, I promise!
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A fantastically enjoyable read. Entertaining, whimsical and enlightening(literarily). Burgess has such a knack for creating characters and this book is a prime example of that. Maybe not the most insightful novel of all time, but an instant favorite of mine and one that is well worth the read. I recommend it to any Burgess fan.
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I have an alternating 3-star/5-star relationship with Burgess, this falling into the former category. The titular doctor is a linguist, and the book is about the power of words, or perhaps the powerlessness of words in some cases. It is frequently funny, but sometimes impenetrably British and hard to understand. There isn’t much of a plot either, it’s more of an odyssey through the London underworld. Fun with colorful characters, though.
Fyi, in keeping with the linguist theme, there are some offensive words involved. Two stereotypically Jewish characters are described doing things ‘jewishly’, and there’s a recurring black dog named... well, you can probably guess. The name turns into a plot device, but the payoff isn’t worth the offense.
Fyi, in keeping with the linguist theme, there are some offensive words involved. Two stereotypically Jewish characters are described doing things ‘jewishly’, and there’s a recurring black dog named... well, you can probably guess. The name turns into a plot device, but the payoff isn’t worth the offense.
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Orijinal dilinde okumak daha mantıklı olur sanırım, Çeviriden okumak oldukça zorlayıcı oldu.
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El vertigo tiene una ocación de ser, además de senda, un entendido concepto. Sheila tiene demasiadas opciones de amor, alunisono las cabila, por ende su obsesión por Edwin es tan solo una pista que introduce al lector en una fogosa lectura.
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