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Originally Posted by nomadicfollower
Me too. Alot of people claim they love the movie, but they don't know who orginially wrote it, or that it was even based on a book.
I nearly bought one of his books the other day, the title already slips my mind. I haven't read any of his novels, though.
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He was an interesting guy. He only took up writing to support his family after illness, if I remember correctly. He spoke something like eight or nine different languages fluently, plus another four or five well , plus the slang one he invented for
A Clockwork Orange.
The Enderby novels are fun,
Earthly Powers (considered by many to be his masterpiece),
Nothing Like The Sun and
Any Old Iron are very good and
A Dead Man In Deptford is possibly his finest piece in my opinion.
He was also a journalist and wrote music. His
Concerto for Pianoforte and Orchestra in E flat is rather pretty. Alas, I have heard it but have no recording.