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.

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.

Probably one of his best. Didn't he claim it was?

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!

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.

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.

Orijinal dilinde okumak daha mantıklı olur sanırım, Çeviriden okumak oldukça zorlayıcı oldu.

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.

I've had numerous people suggest this book to me, and every single one of them forgot to mention the absolutely insane amount of racism and racist language throughout this novel. There's a lot of word play, and linguistic references that I'm sure /someone/ interested in language would enjoy, but I found it horribly dull considering I do not have a particular interest in word breakdowns and latin root words.

It's too bad because I had some interest in the storyline and enjoyed the hospital setting at the beginning and the interesting characters that the main character meets, but it was so filled with racism that there was no way that I could enjoy reading it. Not for me. It took me so long to read it because I was struggling to get through all the pages of slurs, racist descriptions, and the use of the N-word to describe a character's dog. Did not enjoy.

it's supposed to be a comedy but I thought it was uniformly sad. The more I read burgess the more I realize he was probably a significantly bitter or hateful person, portraying women, queers, racial minorities rarely as anything other than invariably villainous

This is one of my top 3 favorite books of all time--a book I'd want with me on a desert island. (The other two are Gone With The Wind and a book written in the 1950's called Horseracing, but I digress.)

Full of rich language, implausible situations, and intellectual fun, this tale of a PhD who finds himself in the hospital due to a brain tumor is very close to what actually happened in Burgess' life. He was told he had one year to live and subsequently started churning out books. He lived a good long life, and kept writing, much to my happiness. Burgess is, of course, my favorite author.

I hadn't re-read this in a few years, and it's so much funnier now. Every time it's read new nuances appear. I love this book.

Eğlenceli, sürükleyici, hayal ve gerçekliğin birbirine girdiğini düşündürten, belki hastalıklı beynin yada kendinden geçme anlarında görülen düşlerin ve pek tabiki yaşanmış da olabilecek detayların olduğu bir öykü.

Kitap için özetle; kültürlü, bilgece bir karakterin belki de asla bir parçası olmayacağı türden maceralarına ilişkin, eğlenceli bir hastalık hikayesi üzerinden kurgulanmış güzel bir hayal(!) ürünü denebilir.

Beklentisi düşük olanlar umduğundan fazlasını bulacak ve belki de çokça beğenecek.

Bir öneri; bu sizin için eğer yazarın ilk kitabı ise hızlı ve arayı çok açmadan okunmasında fayda var zira kitabın vadettiği sürükleyicilik aralıklı okumalarda okuyucu için zorlayıcı olabilir ve daha kötüsü alınacak tüm zevki ortadan kaldırabilir.