[Demimonde]

Had a stubborn student day and decided to throw my book bag in the corner and scrounge through my stacks of vintage paper backs for something to read, all of them under fifty cent finds from half price books. Ended up settling on Anthony Burgess's The Wanting Seed a very strange dystopian book, kinda a Swiftian Modest proposal meets Soylent Green. A captivating read, I can't wait to pass it along to a friend focusing on queer theory as it will make his head explode. Sexuality is a political football with "Homos" as the priveledged class and closeted heteros at the onset. Women are portrayed just as badly, but you can forgive it based on the mind fuck. Interesting treatment of religion and history as well, sprinkled with typical Burgess linguistic fireworks. Dognose I'll prolly never read it again, but I look forward to talking about it with my droogs.