Clockwork Orange circa 2002

A pleasant play on words and a story line to compliment it. After completing this short novel I had the notion that the writer was a 60 year old Ukranian word smith, to my surprise JSF wrote this masterpiece in college. There is a completely unique balance of reality, fiction, and comedy blended together and JSF's play on words is a satire within itself. I have never seen so many elements of writing correctly blended to form a great story. Though JSF's work is elegant it does have it's downfalls- I believe that placing himself within the book was a little "Spike Lee-ish" and somehow took away from the quality of his work. Sometimes in the story the line between fantasy and reality is blurred too much and can seem at first confusing until you delve into the novel. A solid work that will be on summer reading lists nation-wide in a few years.