Çeviri berbat. Belki çok daha iyi bulacağım kitabı mahvetmiş.

If you get the humor and brilliant word-play and like that kind of thing, you will love this book. Otherwise, you may find it a bit dreary.

If all you know about Anthony Burgess is "A Clockwork Orange", this is nothing like that one.

Another quirky, absurd, existentialist novel. When the story is coherent, it is an enjoyable read, aided by Burgess' knack for dry wit. Too often, however, I found the story muddled by comedic surrealism that neither engaged the reader nor offered any profound insight into the mind of the main character. I came very close to giving this three stars based on the parts I did enjoy (and based on the fact that other books to which I have given two stars were not as enjoyable as this one), but overall I found the book too hit-and-miss to garner my recommendation.

Beyin ameliyatından kaçan dilbilim doktoru kendini Londra sokaklarına atar ve birbirinden garip insanlarla soluk soluğa maceralara girer ve sonunda kendini bir keller yarışmasında bulur. Çünkü beyin ameliyatı için saçlarını tamamen kesmişlerdir.
Müthiş bir karam mizah örneği, keyifle okudum.

wittiest story

like the truman show where whilst ur reading ur wondering if it is actually happening or just his brain injury picturing things

The title is the spoiler of the book.

I can say that Anthony Burgess is one of my absolute favorite authors, and this story is one that I thoroughly enjoyed.

There was humor, suspense in a sense, confusion and at times was completely agonizing to read.

This rambunctious brain-surgery-gone-bad comedy is the liveliest and most schizophrenic novel from Burgess yet. The professor protagonist Edwin is scheduled for a brain operation from an eccentric trumpet-playing doctor, but after his head is shaved for the procedure, flees the hospital into an underworld of kettle-selling sadomasochists, phonetic Cockney wideboys, German vamps, bald-headed men competitions, and promiscuously adulterous wives. Rich in various dialects (East London to German to Scots to RP) and whizz-bang verbal dexterity, this comic novel sees Burgess coming into his own as a master of language and intellectually accessible humour—a barmily unpredictable writer capable of seemingly anything. Seriously hilarious.

Maybe 2.5 stars. At times I felt I was making myself read to finish. Not something I want in a book.

Understanding the dialects is a challenge but an interesting read overall

This book is meant to have that characteristic of unreality to make it feel like it might possibly feel like to have a brain tumor. I think it is also hilariously funny in a dry subtle way. So much happens in a short story with commentary on love - romantic love, sexual love, and love of one's occupation. I hardly know what to think of the marriage of the main character. But, put the man at the front of the room and ask him to "teach" and he is like a wind-up toy that just keeps going on and on. It is a sort of sly book. I enjoyed it a lot.

I didn't get it. I have no idea what happened or why. Is the protagonist crazy? Is it the world that's crazy? Was it all a dream? Someday in the not too distant future, I will pick this book up off my shelf and realize I have absolutely no memory of it whatsoever.