KatMullen

God’s review: “Oh dear”.  (There could be some spoilers throughout this blog post) This week I read  The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Noel Adams. I also watched the 2005 film adaptation. When I was younger, I watched the 1981 show several years ago, so I was excited to see how these versions of the story compared to it. I really enjoyed the book. I found it interesting that fantastic, unimaginable coincidence s w ere continually set up, but then the narrator always made a point of specifying that these coincidences meant nothing. At times they wouldn’t affect the story at all. The fact that these coincidences meant nothing almost makes them seem more realistic. Things that don’t make sense happen constantly. It becomes harder to accept them when the author then tries to make the unlikely events mean too much to the story. The fact that the book is humorous helps this as well. Things don’t have to make sense. They can function in a way that focuses on addin

“Life is of course, terrible.” (Burgess p.2) This is the incredibly positive way the author introduced the novel I read this week:  A Clockwork Orange  by Anthony Burgess. I’ve recently watched all of this novel’s film adaptation. I had seen bits and pieces of it in different classes before and felt like it was upheld as a kind of work of art and a great example of film. However, when I watched it I honestly struggled to follow a lot of the dialogue and I didn’t feel like it had tied up quite right at the end. I’m still not satisfied with the reason it was left out of the film, but I was glad to hear that a little more did exist to the story at the end. From the start of reading the novel, I was most excited to see how the author had intended it to be resolved. It was nice that the book had a reference to translate all of the “Nadsat”. This made a huge difference in reading comprehension in comparison to how well I was able to follow the film.   When I started I was checking eve